Question : Problem: capture a print job going to a hp printer and conver to digital image

customer has a program that is written in "dollar t"  (sorry that is all I know)

printing is very unfriendly  however we have jobs going to a hp printer now locall we would like to capture the information and send in the same format to a digital image.     the program uses the ports 9100 and 515 as options to print  we have tried setting up the microsoft image writer however we keep getting port busy try again.    for this reason we would like to just capture the print job and send to a digital file.

Answer : Problem: capture a print job going to a hp printer and conver to digital image

To capture the output, just print to file. Some applications let you select that when you print. If yours doesn't, go to printer Properties, click on the Ports tab, and select File. You will be then prompted for a file name when you print. If you want to use the same file name every time, without a prompt, go to the Printers and Faxes control panel. From the File menu select Server Properties. Click on the Ports tab, then on the Add Port button. Select Local Port from the list and click on New Port. Now enter the full path name of the file you want to use (e.g. C:\Temp\print.prn)

Assuming the output is in PCL, you can convert it to many different formats, using a number of different utilities. See for example:

http://www.swiftview.com/swiftconvert.htm