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Re: PMView won't print

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From: Peter Nielsen
Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2002 23:20
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Victor Bien <nospam.vbien@attglobal.net> wrote in message news:<al4ulj$g7u$1@merki.connect.com.au>...
> When you click on print you just get a popup saying, "There are no
> printers defined".
> 
>     I've asked this question at PMView's site but Peter Nielsen can't
> help me.
> 
>     My PMView 2000 is ver 2.32.  OS/2 is Warp 4 + FP15.  I did not have
> this trouble with my older machine - Warp 4 + FP14.  I have deinstalled 
> it and reinstalled (successfully.  When I posted my query at PMView's 
> site I was having trouble reinstalling.  This problem has gone away).  I 
> have removed my printer object (the main one printing to a Lexmark 310 
> and reinstalled using Lexmark drivers dated in 2001.  The actual driver 
> is a version of IBMPCL5.drv.  I did not remove other print objects from 
> Connections.  The other print objects are Faxprint, DOS printer (uses 
> IBMNull.drv) and Postscript.  PMView suggests deinstalling a print 
> object and reinstalling stating that in some cases this fixed the 
> problem.  In my case it did not.
> 
>    Has anyone else experience this?  Ideas to resolve?

It's true. I'm stumped. I have never heard of or seen a case like this
before (i.e. no printers showing up, although the drivers are
installed). If anyone has seen this before, and even better yet,
figured out the problem, please speak up.

Thanks,
Peter Nielsen
[Author of PMView]
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Subject: Re: PMView won't print
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