>>While I do not claim to have an absolute answer, I don't think it can be done.
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>>AFAIK, Windows virtualizes the port, thus any application that tries to access the port will be trapped by Windows.
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>>Plus, if you were able to bypass the capture, I would expect that NT (W2K, XP) would let you know by killing your application, since NT requires to handle all the hardware for stability. ("Windows" and "stability" in the same sentence? *g*)
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>>Again, this is based on what I think I know! :)
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>>>Is it possible to bypass the network capture of an lpt port and print out directly to the port.
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>If it is not possible, is there a way to turn off and on the capture in code?

Absolutely - you can use the WSH Wscript.Network object to add and remove network port assignments, the WinAPI has WNetAddConnection3() or WNetUseConnection() and WNetCancelConnection2() for the same thing, and you can always use the command line NET USE commands via RUN.