>I have just discovered that if a user attempts to print to a USB port printer the program crashes. I am using the 'Set printer to name (printer name string)'. The printer is on port 'USB/Deskjet 950C/US9BH1K0B7JM'. The crash is as follows 1. Printer not ready error box 2. An error has occured... To keep working... with Close/Ignore buttons. Clicking Ignore more than twice makes the program go away and triggers a GPF.
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>Can anyone tell me the proper procedure to print to a USB port printer? Thanks

Is this Win9x or NT/2K? On Win9x, you might try referencing the pritner by it's port name; my ME box is much happier when I refer to the printer as EPUSB1: than as "Epson Stylus 740 on USB Port"; the 2K boxes are happy as clams referencing it across the LAN by UNC or arbitrary names. I tend to map a logical DOS device to a printer using the WSH if no permanent mapping exists. I also am careful not to put spaces and special characters in my fully qualified UNCs, which has been problematic for me with Win95 boxes.

I'd try renaming the printer UNC with _ rather than / at a minimum to make the parser a little less uncomfortable. No guarentees, but short and sweet and simple generally avoids issues. It may be seeing the / as a folder delimiter...

Ed (with the unimaginitive printer names Epson740 and HPLJ4P)