Sending A Print Job; Printing From Dos; Printing From A Dos Application; Printing An Ascii Text File From The Dos Command Line - NEC 1760 - SilentWriter B/W Laser Printer User Manual

Sending a Print Job

Normally you send a job to the printer using your
computer software. Some instructions for printing from
Windows and MS-DOS are provided below.
See page 4-21 for instructions on using the operator
panel to issue the following special printouts
• Demo page
• Test page
• List of resident PCL 5e fonts
• List of resident PostScript Level 2 fonts
• Flow diagram of operator panel menu tree
Printing from Windows
You can print using the print commands of the
Windows application used to create your document.
Follow these steps
1. Open a document you wish to print.
2. Select Print from the File menu. The Print dialog
box appears.
3. Select the options you want in the Print dialog box,
including the number of copies and page range.
4. When the options are selected, click OK to print the
document.
4–4 User's Guide

Printing from DOS

The instructions below assume that you are printing to
the parallel port LPT1 (if you have configured the
Silentwriter to print to a different port, specify that one
instead).

Printing from a DOS Application

Start your DOS application and set up your application
to print to the parallel port LPT1. Print using the normal
procedures for that application. Generally, print
commands are located under the File menu.
Printing an ASCII Text File from the DOS Command
Line
If you have a file in ASCII format, you can print it from
the MS-DOS command line. Follow these steps
1. At the command line prompt type
COPY <FILENAME.EXT> lpt1:
where <FILENAME.EXT> is the name of your text
file.
2. Press Enter. The computer displays the following
message
1 file(s) copied
to show that your file is printing.