Dear Reader,
DOS recognizes physical ports instead of printers, and since TSPrint installs virtual ports which cannot be recognized, by default TSPrint is not compatible with DOS applications.
Our solution is to map a physical port to a TSPrint printer.
There are two ways:
1) Run following commands in Command Prompt on the Server side for each user:
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /Xs /n "TSPrint Printer" Sharename "TSPrintPrinter"
rundll32 printui.dll,PrintUIEntry /q /Xs /n "TSPrintPrinter" Attributes Shared
net use lpt2 \\localhost\TSPrintPrinter -p
Listed commands make TSPrint Printer to act as a shared printer and then maps it to the LPT2 port. Furthermore, you can switch TSPrint Printer with any TSPrint Printer and switch LPT2 port with any free LPT port.
2) We created a simple .bat file, which must be applied on Server for each user.
Download link: http://www.terminalworks.com/downloads/tsprint/DOS.rar
Our batch file makes TSPrint Printer to act as ashared printer and then maps it to the LPT2 port. User will be able to use TSPrint Printer in DOS applications.