I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. They are on the clipboard. Copying the Screen [ Prev Next Contents ] Prt Scn Copies the whole screen to the clipboard as a graphic or the screen with the mouse if using multiple monitors. Use MS Paint to paste the image. This is also known as Snap Desktop. This is also known as Snap Windows. First you need to give your Linux user access to the parallel printer port on the Linux host, otherwise you will get permission denied errors.
But while using this method seems to work on Windows, according to one report, it does not seem to work properly on Linux. The output is sent verbatim to the printer, so the printer needs to be able to understand any control codes the DOS application sends.
The output will be saved as page1. In the [parallel] section for the parallel config options you can use the file option to direct the output to a file, which can then optionally be opened by the specified application on the host.
This application can then be used to view the output, and possibly print it or used to convert the output to something like PDF with a PDF printer. This will cause any output to LPT1 to be written to output. If you need to pass additional parameters to the application you can either enclose the command with quotes and add the parameters. This should give you the highest quality output, and depending on the application, you may even get colour by selecting a a colour PostScript printer.
Similar to the Linux example above, but here the macOS Preview application is used to open the PostScript file, from where it can be printed. Table of Contents. Additional Windows options: realbase the base IO address of your real parallel port. Default: Without one of the above parameters, data is written to files in the capture directory.
The default of corresponds to Start the specified program to open the output file if an error had occurred. No [printer] section is needed for this example, as we are not emulating a printer. Windows host, method 1 It will cause a Windows print dialogue to appear on the host, and you can print to any printer configured on the host, including print to PDF.
Windows host, method 2 This assumes you PC still has a parallel printer port integrated on the system board, or a legacy ISA parallel printer adapter. Windows host, extended solution using Printfil According to its description, Printfil allows text-based applications to print to any Windows printer, including USB, network printers, fax modems and PDF writers, without any changes to the original applications. Linux host First you need to give your Linux user access to the parallel printer port on the Linux host, otherwise you will get permission denied errors.
Replace "username" in the example below with your own Linux username. This has been confirmed to work. Alternatively you can try to set it up as follows:. This is not emulated see Wikipedia. This option may not work without additional steps, as this tries to do direct access to the port on the host PC, which modern operating systems will block by default. You can optionally specify base addresses and IRQs for them with base: and irq: options. If your wanting to print in landscape on Letter or A4 paper, or in portrait on A3 paper, select a wide printer as otherwise the software may not give you the possibility to configure the paper properly.
As such for text mode printing, it does not matter if a 9 or pin printer is selected. Printing to any Epson pin printer in " x " or " x " mode results in corrupted output.
If, however, multiple files need to be printed, using the copy command can also be used, as shown below. The above example uses the copy command to copy all txt or text files in the current directory to the LPT1 port. Meaning that only text files print using this method; attempting to print a Microsoft Word, Excel, Works, WordPerfect or any similar program that requires a program will not work. To eject the paper manually, use the button for FF form feed or page feed to eject your paper.
If you have a dot matrix printer , use the hand wheel to manually eject the paper. MS-DOS users using 2.
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