Print to remote Comm Port in VB6

I have a software that prints out to a thermal printer connected to the comm port, the code below works well.

Open "COM3:" For Output Access Write As #1

   Print #1, Space(8) & "FRAKAS LTD"       
   Print #1, Space(7) & "P.O. Box 7678 SHIMO开发者_Go百科NI" 
   ...
   ...

Close #1

Now I want to print on the same comm port but from a different computer on the network, is it possible?

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You can redirect the serial port across the network by running software at each end. There is some info on Wikipedia here about some solutions - I haven't tried any.

We have used ethernet to serial converters from Moxa - these redirect a local COM port to a remote one without any PC at the remote end. One example is here

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if the printer is availabe then you can use the following to prepare text to be printed :

printer.print "text"

to start the actual printing you use the following :

printer.enddoc