DOCUMENT:Q101850  27-JUL-1993  [W_NT]
TITLE   :MS-DOS Application Prints Incomplete Pages
PRODUCT :Windows NT
PROD/VER:3.10
OPER/SYS:WINDOWS
KEYWORDS:

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The information in this article applies to:
 
 - Microsoft Windows NT operating system, version 3.1
 - Microsoft Windows NT Advanced Server, version 3.1
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All MS-DOS application printing is done through the Windows NT spooler
system. In order to know when to send a job to the spooler, there is a
time-out on the printer port. Once something has been printed to the
port, if this time-out passes with no more data presented to the port,
the print job is sent to the spooler. On a slow computer running a
complex calculation to produce the print job, it is possible that the
time-out can expire during this calculation. This will cause the
printout to appear over multiple pages instead of a complete page. To
solve this problem, increase the time-out. Change the registry setting
to the following:
 
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\
   Control\WOW\LPT_timeout
 
The default value is 15 seconds.
 
Additional reference words: 3.10
KBCategory:
KBSubCategory: MDOS PRT

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