Technical Procedures

Manual
P0026 Network printer installation
using LPR/LPD protocol

NETWORK PRINTER INSTALLATION

USING LPR/LPD PROTOCOL

Creation date :01/12/2002

Author Piotr Nitkiewicz PROCEDURE
Release : 1.3
Date of last record : 1/27/2006 08:41:00 AM
Status : Verified
 Technical Procedures
Manual
P0026 Network printer installation
using LPR/LPD protocol

Releases summary

Date Release Author Description

01/12/2002 1.0 PN Created
03/10/2003 1.1 PN Translated to English, major review
WinXP/Win2000: change service startup type, how to
03/12/2003 1.2 PN
check if service is working
16/03/2004 1.3 PN Dot-matrix printer installation

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INSTALLING PRINT SERVER (LPD)

Windows 2000/XP

From the Control Panel/Add\Remove Programs\Windows Components

add following component: Print Services for Unix:

The printer which is connected to this machine (2000/XP) must be shared.

TCP/IP Print server service must be set to start automatically.

To correct service settings execute following steps:
 right click on My Computer, choose Manage
 go to Service and application > Services
 select TCP/IP Print Server, right click choose Properties
 change Startup type to Automatic

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Windows NT 4.0

The Windows NT Server that will be acting as the print service must have the following:
 TCP/IP installed
 "Microsoft TCP/IP Printing" service installed (Start > Settings > Control Panel > Network >
Services tab > Add > Microsoft TCP/IP Printing)
 TCP/IP Print server service must be set to start automatically (Start > Settings > Control Panel >
Services > TCP/IP Print Server > Startup > Automatic)

The printer which is connected to this machine (NT 4.0) must be shared.

Windows 95/98/Me

Those versions of Windows doesn’t support LPD/LPR protocol, therefore you have to install external
program called LPD.EXE.
 Copy file LPD.EXE from DMS server D:\DATAFIRST\tools
to the folder c:\windows\lpd on Windows 9x/Me machine
 Run program LPD.EXE

 Click button Add and select port & printer which you want to assign
to queue PRTQ1 from the right panel. Click OK to apply changes.

 If you have more than one printer connected to this PC, click Add again to assign next printer
to the next queue (PRTQ2, PRTQ3, …).

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INSTALLING PRINT CLIENT (LPR) ON WINDOWS 2000

(DMS SERVER)

 Go to Start > Settings > Printers & Faxes, and click Add printer
 Click Next on the first window of the wizard, then choose Local printer and click Next

 In the next window create a new printer port, choose type: LPR Port and click Next

 Now you have to define LPR port properties.

In the field Name or address of server providing lpd: type name or IP address of the
machine where printer is physically connected.
In field Name of printer or print queue on that server: type

o Name of printer’s share on this machine where printer is physically connected

(for workstations with Windows 2000/XP/NT)

o Name of queue from program LPD.EXE (for workstations with Windows 95/98/Me)

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 Choose appropriate driver for your printer

 Assign a name for printer

 Don’t share this printer

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DOT-MATRIX PRINTER INSTALLATION

SOME ECARS21 REPORTS ARE SPECIALLY DESIGNED TO BE PRINTED ON DOT-MATRIX
PRINTER IN TEXT-MODE (THIS MODE HELP YOU TO FAST PRINT SIMPLY PRINTINGS
WITHOUT GRAPHIC ELEMENTS – ONLY TEST).
FOR EXAMPLE IN POLAND YOU CAN PRINT FOLLOWING REPORTS ON DOT-MATRIX
PRINTER IN TEXT-MODE:
 Repair order
 Stock movement document
 Payment
 Cashdesk report

To print reports above in text mode, you have to install dot-matrix printer as:
“Generic/Text only printer”. If you are planning to use your dot-matrix printer in both modes: graphic
printings and text-only printings, you have to install them twice as 2 independent printers in system
with 2 different drivers:
 Original manufacture drivers (graphic printings)
 “Genetric\Text only” driver which is available in Windows

NOTE: “Generic\Text only” printer can’t be installed on Cars server as default printer!

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 TIP

How to check if LPD service is working on a machine where the printer is physically
connected to?

De pe server: Run commands:

cmd
telnet IP of_LPD_server 515 ex: telnet 10.1.1.12 515

If black window with blinking cursor in left-hand upper corner only appears – it means that LPD service
is listening on this port, so service is working.

If below message appears:

Connecting To IP_of_LPD_server ...

Could not open connection to the host, on port 515: Connect failed

It means that LPD service isn’t working or isn’t installed at all.

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