Using parallel printer on TL-PS110P without printer sharing on Windows
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Using parallel printer on TL-PS110P without printer sharing on Windows
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Hi,
we are using two very old parallel NEC dot matrix printers (P 30 and P 2200) in our Windows peer-to-peer network for printing labels. Up to now, these printers were connected to a computer running Windows XP via its parallel ports. On this XP machine, a printer share was installed for each NEC printer and a special application in our network addressed the printers using this share.
As the named XP machine has no additional job than providing access to the printers we'd like to replace it by a device as small as possible and happened to find the TL-PS110P. We installed such a device for one of the printers to test it and learned that this small box indeed can replace the XP machine and allows printing on the dot matrix printer as before - as long as we have a printer share for the printer on another Windows machine in the network and this machine is active.
So our question is: Does anybody know how to send data to a printer attached to a TL-PS110P directly without using a printer share installed on another Windows computer in the network? Or with other words, is there an "alias" or something like that with can be used to determine the "access path" to the printer on the small print server? Of course we already tried "\\192.168.100.227" (this is the IP of the TL-PS110P) and things like "\\192.168.100.227\NIL" but all tests ended up in different E/A-errors.
Every help is very appreciated ;-) Thanks a lot in advance,
Bernd Hoffmann
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Hi,
we are using two very old parallel NEC dot matrix printers (P 30 and P 2200) in our Windows peer-to-peer network for printing labels. Up to now, these printers were connected to a computer running Windows XP via its parallel ports. On this XP machine, a printer share was installed for each NEC printer and a special application in our network addressed the printers using this share.
As the named XP machine has no additional job than providing access to the printers we'd like to replace it by a device as small as possible and happened to find the TL-PS110P. We installed such a device for one of the printers to test it and learned that this small box indeed can replace the XP machine and allows printing on the dot matrix printer as before - as long as we have a printer share for the printer on another Windows machine in the network and this machine is active.
So our question is: Does anybody know how to send data to a printer attached to a TL-PS110P directly without using a printer share installed on another Windows computer in the network? Or with other words, is there an "alias" or something like that with can be used to determine the "access path" to the printer on the small print server? Of course we already tried "\\192.168.100.227" (this is the IP of the TL-PS110P) and things like "\\192.168.100.227\NIL" but all tests ended up in different E/A-errors.
Every help is very appreciated ;-) Thanks a lot in advance,
Bernd Hoffmann