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NOTE: Not all applications can print to an HP-IL printer.
To install an HP-IL driver, use a file called CONFIG.SYS. CONFIG.SYS is a
file you create on your boot disc, which is the disc you use to load DOS and
other information when you turn on or reset the computer.
To install the driver using CONFIG.SYS, use an editor or word processor
to add one of the following lines to CONFIG.SYS:
DEVICE=HPIL.SYS /Annn
DEVICE=HPIL_PRN.SYS /Annn
DEVICE=HPIL_LPT.SYS /Annn
In the lines above, /Annn specifies a three-digit hexadecimal address of the
HP-IL interface card. (The default address is 700.) For example, to load
HPIL_PRN.SYS to control a card at address 218, type into CONFIG.SYS:
DEVICE=HPIL_PRN.SYS /A218
(Create CONFIG.SYS if it doesn't exist.) Whenever you turn on or reset the
desktop computer with the boot disc in drive A, the computer automatically
loads the driver for you.
NOTE: If after installing an HP-IL driver you want to run HPLINK (making
the desktop PC an HP-IL device on the loop), you need to first remove
the driver from the system. To do this, reboot the system using a
duplicate of the DOS disc that DOES NOT load the driver into the computer.
You might want to keep two copies of the DOS disc: one that installs the
HP-IL driver and one that doesn't.
