DOS ain't dead - Network printer in DOS

Network printer in DOS (Users)

posted by mbbrutman , Washington, USA, 01.03.2012, 06:19

I think your netcat parameters are mostly correct. The error message is telling you that the target does not have port 9100 open for TCP/IP. There was probably one ARP packet sent, one ARP packet received, a TCP/IP packet to open the connection, and a TCP/IP reset received to tell you that 9100 was invalid.

I tried this against my recent Brother laser printer which is network connected. The first attempt was slightly off - I needed to add carriage return characters. That problem can be solved by using the -bin option to preserve the CR/LF pairs in the file, or by using the -telnet_nl option.

An important thing to note is that not all printers have the smarts to listen on port 9100 and accept raw input. I paid a little extra for a printer that has Postscript (BrotherScript), PCL6 and some old Epson emulation.

-Mike

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