[PLUG] VMware app printing conundrum

[Rich Shepard]

   I need the collective wisdom of the group here to help me figure this out.

   Summary: I can no longer print from an application running on the virtual
win98 since the printers were changed from direct (on parallel ports) to
network nodes.

   In the guest OS I changed the printer name to the current, correct one.
Tried printing a test page, then canceled the job when the printer display
asked me to load a sheet of paper in the manual feed tray. Now I can no
longer print a test page either. I'm using the proper printer names (as
defined in /etc/cups/printers.conf). Cannot print from the application,
either.

   I can, however, print to a disk file (e.g., map2.prn). But, I cannot
figure out how to send that file to the printer over the network. I tried
the standard cups way of printing a file from the command line, but that
failed:

[rshepard at salmo ~]$ lpr -Pcolorp map2.prn 
lpr: error - unable to print file: client-error-document-format-not-supported

   In /etc/cups/printers.conf the printer is defined as:

<DefaultPrinter colorp>
Info Color InkJet 2500C
Location office
DeviceURI socket://colorp:9100

   Is there a way to copy the file to the socket?

   I'm stymied and don't know how to get printing to work again from within
the legacy win app.

TIA,

Rich

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