[PROJECT]

I am trying to print a document from wordperfect in DOS and I am getting the error "printer not accepting characters". Does anyone know how to fix this?

[AcaCandy]

Have you tried turning the printer off, then back on, and reboot computer?

[PROJECT]

yes i did, tried a different printer too

[AcaCandy]

Is it a dot matrix printer?

[PROJECT]

yes, an Okidata

[AcaCandy]

Are you in pure dos or are you trying to print via a dos window?

Has this setup worked prior?

[PROJECT]

pure dos, DOS 6. It did work prior and it just stopped working when we switched printers. Our Oki is out for service and our replacement Oki, which is a different model, is when it stopped working. I have tried on 2 different printers and nothing

[AcaCandy]

Are the correct printer drivers installed?

[PROJECT]

sort of fixed the problem. for some reason in the BIOS it switched the single on-board parallel port to LPT2? I dont know why, so now every time i print something i have to change it to look at lpt2? i tried changing it in the BIOS but every IRQ option only gives LPT2

[AcaCandy]

Per chance is there a line in the config.sys or autoexec.bat files that is pointing the printer to LPT2?

[PROJECT]

no there isnt i checked that, is there a line i can add that will map the printer to lpt1, but remember the BIOS is where the parallel port is det to lpt2, and it does not give me the option of lpt1

[AcaCandy]

It's been a while since I have played with a dot matrix printer in dos, but when you install the printer drivers, isn't there an option there to tell it what LPT port to print from?

[PC_Wiz]

You can use DEBUG to determine what addresses are being used by the first two LPT ports.

At the command prompt type:

Debug <enter>
- D 40:8 L4 <enter>

Here are some articles :

http://support.microsoft.com/default...Ben-us%3B75180
http://www.firmware.com/support/bios/swaplpt.htm

[m-dash]

Project,

I don't know if this will help in your situation, but in case you didn't know, in WP for DOS you can set the LPT port for your printer by going to the Print menu (Shift+F7) > Select (select your desired printer) > Edit > Port (to specify which parallel port setting you want WP to use.)

m-dash

[PROJECT]

Thanks, I know I already did that. The problem is everytime i restart the computer WP resets it so that it looks at LPT1. So before i print i always have to manually switch it. By the way what keystrokes must you push to save your changes and exit without cancelling. I know F1 is to cancel and exit, is F7 to save changes and exit when you are in setup for printers?