To do so, you have to run different PrintfilĬopies simultaneously on the PC, as described on Chapter 13, each one used to capture a single LPT port or COM port. Intervention, as described in Chapter 3).Īnyway, Printfil allows even to capture multiple parallel ports and serial ports simultaneously on the same PC. The end user for the destination printer each time a job has beenĬFG file to send the job to a specific printer without user
(for example) and let Printfil "address" the final printer (for exampleīy enabling the "Choose" option in its own configuration dialog to ask LPT ports to manage different printers just leave it printing to LPT1: Then you no more need to setup the DOS program to print to different With Printfil you no more have such limit, because even by capturing a single LPT port, that data can be forwarded to any Windows printer installed in the Control Panel (so, even if the DOS program prints to LPT1: only, its print jobs can be sent even to 300 or 3000 different printers). The DOS age you were limited to use 3 parallel ports (max), each one of themĬould connect a printer (so 3 printers max.
If Printfil detects a DOSBox version installed that supports the chosen LPT port or COM port (DOSBox MegaBuild 6, DOSBox SVN Daum, vDos, vDosPlus, and DOSBox-x for parallel ports), it asks you if you want to automatically configure it to capture the port even in that emulated DOS environment. On Windows 95, Windows 98 and Windows ME you can capture LPT ports too, but you cannot capture COM ports. Printfil can capture a COM or LPT port on any Windows NT-based system (Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows 10, Windows 11, Windows Server 2000, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2012, Windows Server 2016, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2022). If a serial or parallel printer is physically connected to that port (forĮxample a Windows-only Laser printer), and even if the COM or LPT port is not physically installed on the PC (on new machines, serial ports and parallel ports are no more included nowadays, since USB ports replaced them). This case you can redirect the COM or LPT output to a file for Printfil, even Systems, redirecting the print output to a file is a veryĮasy task, but on some old DOS or Windows Console ModeĪpplications, the programmer did not give the end user How to capture the parallel port's output (PRN:, LPT1:, LPT2.
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