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Setting Up a prn File Association in Windows XP

NASIS users who have been migrated to a CCE Windows XP system can use these instructions for re-setting up NASIS printing. It is not necessary to do a complete NASIS printer setup, if you were printing from NASIS prior to being migrated.

  1. Open My Computer (“Start | My Computer | Local Disk (C:)”).
     
  2. Select “Tools | Folder Options | File Types | New”.
     
  3. Enter file extension “prn”.
     
  4. Find and highlight file type “PRN PRN File” in list. Click “Change”.
     
  5. Click on the radio button beside “Select the Program from a List”. Click “OK”.
     
  6. Find and highlight program “Print Utility”. Click “OK”. Click “Close”. Hint: If you can't find “Print Utility”, use the browse button and select c:\Windows\system32\print.exe.
     
  7. To print the report attachment in Outlook, right click on email attachment and select print from menu. Printer must be mapped to LPT1 as usual.
     
  8. To map a networked printer to LPT1, click on “Start | All Programs | USDA Applications | Utilities | Map Printer to LPT1”. Click on a server name and then select a printer.

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