This may or may not be enough information to provide me with a solution, but I'm having some issues printing to a PCL5/PCLXL/PS laser through a telnet session [PuTTY]. I know that there is some kind of extremely simple passthrough script that a 3rd party vendor has whipped up and hardcoded into their application. Strangely enough I can get the formatting to work fine when the printer is assigned via USB001. I can also share and specify within putty the network name and printer and it works fine on other machines.

However, if I use Standard TCPIP or Lexmark TCPIP, 1 page of output turns into 10 and there are all kinds of weird and random line breaks. I watch the spooler when this happens and it queues multiple pages if not connected to USB. I have been able to duplicate the issue with a Lexmark T650 and a Phaser 6120. Strangely enough, at some point while messing around with the T650 I somehow broke the USB configuration and could not print correctly unless I switched the driver to the previously installed T630.

I have found the following whitepaper on Anzio's site, but have not had a time to do any testing with SecureCRT or Anzio yet. Does anyone have experience with this specifically? Does it make any sense to ask how I can make the TCPIP printer port exactly emulate the virtual USB port? Or I assume Parallel may be the more logical choice? At any rate, this has become increasingly frustrating and any ideas would be appreciated.

http://www.anzio.com/support/documentation/anzio/A Guide to Anzio Passthrough Printing.htm

Thanks, TT.

9/22/2010 7:28:30 AM

Take this with a grain of salt.

In all of my experience with print drivers and network printers, this:

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"Does it make any sense to ask how I can make the TCPIP printer port exactly emulate the virtual USB port?"

Doesn't ever work. The problem is that every (or damn near every) printer has completely separate hardware for network spooling and USB/Parallel spooling. They are entirely independent systems. You can definitely emulate the virtual USB port through Parallel (and vice versa), but it's a completely different ballgame to print via TCPIP.

9/22/2010 5:35:53 PM

Well at least I'm not crazy then. That's exactly the response I was looking to find on google and couldn't come up with the right search terms. Do you see any way other than sharing? I haven't tried setting it up as a network printer. http://printername

9/22/2010 10:06:27 PM