Route LPT1 to USB Printer

[RjCrash]

I have this Dos Program that prints directly to the LPT1 Port.
Unfortunately, this Laptop I have does not have a parallel port.

Is there a way that anyone knows of, a Net Use Command or anything, that can re-route my LPT1 port to the printer that is loaded (HP 845c) in my Windows XP Home?

Any help is appreciated.

FYI:
On another note, I DID learn this about Windows XP Home.
I had made an inquiry long ago asking would XP let you upload Data from a Dos Program to its Comm Port.
It DOES let you. I was able to initialize the port and get the data from a Data Collection device.

Thanks for any help offered on the LPT1 redirection.
Rj

[TropicalBound]

Would it work if he were to share his USB printer on the network, then use the 'net use' command to connect to it?

net use LPT1: \\computer\printer

[RjCrash]

I tried that Off of a network, for the laptop to use its own shared printer.

I turned sharing on to the printer, without being on a network.
This laptop will be used with dial up out in the field, no network.

It would NOT let me issue the command. Got an Error.
But when I hooked it up to OUR network, it let me issue the command Net Use lpt1: //myputername/myprintername

I modified Autoexec.bat to use Net Use Persistent:Yes to keep the setting. Rebooted off of the network. No printing. Although it kept the command.

Thanks for the response. I may have to modify the program to print to a text file, and then have this person open it up in word and print manually.

Thanks again.
Any other Idea's (and there may not be any..) would be appreciated
Rj

[TropicalBound]

One last thing you could try (before I completely give up on the net use idea) is to use the loopback address instead of a network address. Try this:

net use lpt1: \\127.0.0.1\sharename

[RjCrash]

Yup, Im with you Tropical. Net use without a net, may not be the solution.

Thanks though.
I get this error if not hooked in to a network..
System error 1231 has occured.
The network location cannot be reached. <go see help..etc>.

Thanks again, guess I'll reprogram that clipper dos program to print to a file, or CSV they can import into Excel. Then Print.

Once again, thanks for the time and effort.
Rj