Re: Re: [Thinkpad] Win98 on 600X won't print

Everything is stuck in the printer queue, even if I print from the command line to LPT1.

When I click Print in an ap, there is a note to the effect that several items are
waiting in queue; "user invervention"

No idea what to do. Everything is stuck in both parallel and serial printer queues.

Jeffrey Race
On Tue, 4 May 2004 10:23:59 -0500, amblan57@verizon.net wrote:

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>Hello:
>
>Assuming the issue is to troubleshoot the hookup, I would go to a dos prompt and type in the
following:
>
>echo hello > LPT1:
>
>or
>
>echo hello > COM<X>:
>
>where X can be the appropriate numeric for the COM port your printer is connected to (1-4,
usually)
>
>With the first connection point there are typically no user settings; with the second you will
most likely have to set the Baud Rate, parity, number of bits, etc, i.e. 'match' up these values
with the settings Windows 98 configures for this (usually 9600 N 8 1, i.e. 9600 bits/s No parity,
8 data bits 1 Stop bit)
>
>To eject the paper you may have to issue a form feed, i.e.
>
>ctrl L
>
>or in actual keystrokes
>
>^L (Shift 6 and uppercase L) i.e.
>
>echo ^L > LPT1:
>
>If this works, then you have validated connectivity. Next, you should experiment with the
appropriate GUI interface, i.e. the Printer driver display page, the Print Spool Window
interface, etc.

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