OP
Black Hole
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You don't have the time!
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Windows Print-to-File
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OP
Black Hole
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I've been reading something about importing Visual Studio into PowerShell - is that how you do it?
No - I've used a free tool called Advanced Script Editor (ASE) in the past which has support for building GUIs (forms) quickly.
I could get you started..
OP
Black Hole
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My little .bat file (with a symbolic name for the target network printer) is chugging along nicely...
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Excellent!
OP
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Well, that was speaking too soon! This month it had some issues that haven't happened before:
That's understandable, the printer had a paper feed jam and stopped awaiting correction.
Fair enough again, a knock-on effect of the above (the first message was within one print, the subsequent one was for a new print).
For some reason, it seems the printer then took itself off-line (or maybe the OS decided it was off-line having not accepted too many transfers).
So far, not unreasonable. Once the jam was corrected and the job restarted, everything was fine again until:
That was in the middle of a print run, when everything seemed to be working fine! It just stopped for no apparent reason. Start the job again (without any other intervention) and it was fine for a while, and then "unknown" again. And after enough "unknown"s on the trot, "does not exist".
"Error: could not send data to print server. Job aborted."
That's understandable, the printer had a paper feed jam and stopped awaiting correction.
"Error: print server did not accept request. Job aborted."
Fair enough again, a knock-on effect of the above (the first message was within one print, the subsequent one was for a new print).
"Error: print server unreachable or specified printer does not exist."
For some reason, it seems the printer then took itself off-line (or maybe the OS decided it was off-line having not accepted too many transfers).
So far, not unreasonable. Once the jam was corrected and the job restarted, everything was fine again until:
"Error: host EPSON78163A is unknown."
That was in the middle of a print run, when everything seemed to be working fine! It just stopped for no apparent reason. Start the job again (without any other intervention) and it was fine for a while, and then "unknown" again. And after enough "unknown"s on the trot, "does not exist".
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That's NetBIOS for you.
