Configure a .tpx file to print to the Windows printer, with Bypass Printer Drivers checked. Open the .tpx file in Internet Explorer. Transparent print jobs come to the screen. A print job shows as spooling in Windows until the emulator is closed. Then the job disappears.

CR 634

The first transparent print job works correctly. The second and subsequent jobs give the error, “Print already in process.” Other Windows applications can use the printer successfully. Restarting TinyTERM allows one transparent print job, then the error comes back. This has not been duplicated.

One report suggests that deleting the .tpx file, then recreating it from scratch gets rid of the error. This has not been duplicated either.

CR 618, Okidata Microline 320
CR 640, general case

TinyTERM and TERM for Windows insert null characters after CR/LF pairs in transparent print jobs. This does not affect text output, but causes problems printing image files.

CR 90, fixed in TinyTERM 4.13

If the terminal emulation in TinyTERM is set to any emulation that uses \033[5i as the transparent print on code — SCOANSI, ANSI, VT220, etc. — printing to the Windows printer produces no output. If you check Bypass Printer Drivers, then it works, provided the printer allows it. This only affects TinyTERM 4.42.

CR 720, fixed in TinyTERM 4.43

Configure TinyTERM’s Printer Setup with the Ignore print requests option. On starting TinyTERM, you must go into Printer Setup and click OK, or transparent print jobs happen anyway. No actual changes need to be made, just clicking OK.

CR 684, fixed in TinyTERM 4.43

TERM for Linux 6.2.5b will not release a transparent print job until TERM is closed. This was fixed in TERM for Linux 6.28.

CR 212

When transparent printing to a file, TinyTERM 4.x appends an extra carriage return to each line. This was fixed in TinyTERM 4.30.

If you have TinyTERM 4.30 or higher, you may still see this behavior. When that happens, run this command at a UNIX shell prompt, then test printing again:

stty -onlcr

That will prevent the terminal from converting bare line feeds to carriage return/line feed pairs.

CR 208, fixed in TinyTERM 4.30
CR 663

When transparent printing on Windows 2000 direct to LPT1:, the last page of the printout doesn’t print until you close TinyTERM. There is no patch or workaround for this.

On Windows 2000 we recommend you print to the Windows printer with the Bypass Printer Drivers option set. However, if you must print direct to device instead, this was fixed in TinyTERM 4.20.

CR 193

When the Printer Setup dialog box was revamped for TinyTERM 4.13, the Flush Output option was removed. It was re-added in the Transparent Print Only section of Printer Setup in TinyTERM 4.20.

Cr 189

Using any dot-matrix printers connected directly to an LPT port, in TinyTERM 4.x the print job is slow and loses data. The problem is in flow control between the PC and printer.

This was resolved in TinyTERM 4.13. There is no patch for earlier versions.