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AnswerHow to reconfigure a usb printer to trick a program to think it is printing to a parallel port?

  • Wednesday, November 04, 2009 8:56 PMMTech8 Users MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers MedalsUsers Medals
     
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    Not sure where to begin to look for help. Please point me in the right direction.

    I have an old legacy software program (written in FoxPro) that does not give me any choices as to what printer to print too. Currently, it always prints to a dot matrix printer that is connected to a parrallel port. I'm upgrading my computer which won't have a parallel port (and I'm not planning on using the dot matrix printer anymore).

    Is there a way to configure a usb printer so that the programs thinks that it is printing to that device/port?

    Thanks for the help!
     

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