>Hi,
>
>I am trying to use a trick explained in UT to print to a USB printer from FP DOS app that prints to LPT1. Emmanuel Huybrechts gave a good explanation, which apparently has worked for others. The trick is given below. The problem is it doesn't work for me!
>
>Am using WinXP. Have a Canon LaserShot 1120 printer on port USB001. I shared the printer per instructions and ran the NET USE command. The machine even confirms that LPT1 port is assigned to \\DellAlex\CanonLas, my machine and printer share name respectively.
>
>What can be going wrong?
>
>Thanks for the help.
>
>Alex
>
>

>Category:     Message ID:   912700
>Title:  Re: Print to USB port from FPD 2.6
>
>If you are under WinXP or Win2000, you can do this :
>
>1. Share your USB printer
>2. Let's say that you Computer has a netbios name COMPUTER1 and the printer share is named USBprinter,
>   open a Cmd window and type this command :
>
>NET USE LPT1: \\Computer1\USBprinter /PERSISTENT:YES
>

It may be that your printer does not support DOS printing. I could not find the printer on the Canon site to check its specifications. Check DOS printing capability as follows:

1. Create a text file using NotePad (e.g. TEXT.TXT)
2. In a CMD window, type in

  COPY TEXT.TXT LPT1

3. If a printer light comes on but nothing prints, you may have to press a "continue" button, or exit the CMD window to release the print job

If the above test won't print, the printer may be a so-called GDI printer which requires a Windows driver to render the print jobs and which doesn't support DOS.

UPDATE: it looks like your printer is a GDI printer so you might be out of luck:

http://www.canon.com.au/products/printers/laser_printers_low_medium_volume/lbp1120_specs.html

Also check out Ed Rauh's FAQ#15418