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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (9706)	12/17/1999 6:39:00 PM
From: Dan Spangenberg	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

Its been a long time since I petitioned the thread for help, I hope someone has some ideas on this one. In my business we have an old DOS based application that we use in our production area. I have a question / problem with printing and this app. We currently prints out to two different forms to two different printers, one HP old deskjet with an Epson emulation cartridge, and an old epson dot matrix. The data is sent out of the program with epson emulation. I would like to buy one new laser printer with 2 paper trays. The printer would have to have epson emulation mode. The data is sent out of the program on LPT1 and LPT2. We currently run this program from within windows (98 and NT) and I would like to print to a network printer. Would it be possible to install the driver twice on each workstation and set one driver to capture LPT1 and print to tray #1 and the other driver to capture LPT2 and print to tray #2? So far I have only found that the Okidata LED laser printers support epson emulation, and they I can't direct the output to differtn trays automatically. I know with my HP printers I just install multiple copies of the driver, each with different setup options. Is there someway in NT server to have this work? Is the only way to buy two seperate printers, will it even work then? Are there any other lasers out there that support old epson emulation? The only other option is to find a utility that can convert the epson print data into another form that a normal printer can use.... I appreciate any / all ideas Good Luck, Looks like I need it :-) Dan

To: Howard R. Hansen who wrote (9706)	3/9/2000 2:50:00 PM
From: appro	Respond to of 14778

Thanks to you, I picked up Upgrading & Repairing PCs, Eleventh Edition at Sam's Club for 35.88. FYI, two copies of the Tenth Edition are still available for $49.99 at my local CompUSA. Every time I point this out to the red vested ones dusting and straightening the books at the CompUSA I get one of those looks like, "You talking to me? Tell someone who gives a hoot." BTW, I was buying it with the idea of upgrading a Pentium II processor. The edition at CompUSA, merely alludes to a coming unnamed processor expected to replace the Pentium with MMX processors. The edition number helped me avoid wasting my money. Thanks. : )