JSI Tip 0924. Local printer: Error writing to LPT1 file name: The system cannot find the file specified.

Jerold Schulman

December 16, 1998

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If you receive the subject message, you may have a third party driver that starts when Windows NT starts and conflicts with your printer driver. The Parallel device may also fail to start with:

   Event ID: 3   Source: Parallel   Type: Error   Category: None   Description:  Not enough memory was available to allocate internal   storage needed for the device.

Locate and disable this third-party device driver using Control Panel / Devices / Startup / Disabled. Restart your computer.

The third-party driver will have been installed by one of the software packages you setup since the previous boot.

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