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November 23, 2008  
Subject: Sending RAW data to a printer with port set to FILE
Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.print_fax_scan
Date: 7/16/2008 12:05:39 AM
From: =?Utf-8?B?Z2Vvcmdp?= [Email Address Protection]

This question has appeared in this group earlier but no answer was given.
When sending data to a printer as described in KB 138594
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q138594/ i.e. OpenPrinter with
DOC_INFO_1.pDataType set to "RAW", StartDocPrinter, StartPagePrinter,
WritePrinter, etc., and the printer port is set to FILE:, print job sits in
spooler with status "Error - Printing". No entries are written to the event
logs, although print server is configured to log spooler errors and warnings.
Tweaking spooler directory security didn't make any difference.

TIA,
Georgi

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