slick wrote:
> I have a Belkin "Hi-Speed USB 2.0 Dockstation". It has two USB 2.0 ports, a
> Ethernet port, a VGA port, a parallel port, and a serial port and all of
> this connects through the USB port of my Dell Inspiron 1100 notebook. Here
> is my question: My business ships with a lot of shipping companies. Two of
> which are UPS and FedEx. I bought a thermal printer for printing all of the
> shipping labels (an Eltron 2543). I connect to it with serial port on the
> dockstation. It works fine with UPS but FedEx requires it to be on COM1, 2,
> or 3. The dockstation's serial port is COM 4 so FedEx's site won't see it.
> I tried to fix it by going into the device manager, finding COM 4 and
> changing it in the properties to COM 2. So now it knows that the serial
> port is now COM 2 not 4. Now it won't print anything even though I changed
> the printer properties to print on COM 2. As soon as I change everything
> back to COM 4, it works.
> I know this is possible I have had this exact configuration of COM 2
> working. It doesn't now because the computer crashed and I have to set all
> of this back up. I remember I had to play with everything to get it to work
> the first time way back when but it just won't print on COM 2.
>
> Help me if possible.
>
> TIA
>
>
>
I have a similar Dockstation & had a similar problem with the parallel
port. IIRC it turned out to be a question fo which port was selected in
the printer driver vs. the port defined in device manager.
In the printer driver, for some reason, I had all the 'local' ports
defined even though they didn't exist. Adding the Dockstation added a
USB (LPT1) port. Selecting the 'normal' LPT1 port sent the print job to
the bit bucket. Selecting the USB (LPT1) port sent it to the printer.
I don't know that this will help-I think it explains the problem but
probably doesn't tell you how to fix it. GL
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