Hi
Yes it works!!!

Ed Rauh's DIRPRTCLASS (download#9957)

But be aware I was not successfuly for the printer I wanted to target as it turned out to be a GDI-only printer then you run out of luck, period.

>Hi!
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>I just happened to see your message and this solution would be pretty useful for me too.
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>Tell me, did this printing to a USB port worked?
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>>Just a thank you again. I downloaded the utility by Ed and have created a wrapper around it and put in a call in my app using the text file that is created during then runtime and it works great. Will be actually testing on a USB printer soon.
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>>>>Hi all
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>>>>I have a client who has a USB Inkjet printer and my DOS app will not print to it. I have tried dir > prn: DOS command and that too does not work.
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>>>>Is there a free utility which takes the text file I generate and send to the USB printer. I can RUN START utilname.exe textname.txt if required after the file is generated.
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>>>Re: USB port - HELP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thread #726260 Message #726284