# \[RESOLVED\] Notepad demo printing issue **URL:** \ **Category:** V4 Issue\ **Created:** [September 13, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/resolved-notepad-demo-printing-issue/2574 "2014-09-13T17:53:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Aryanking](https://forum.sambapos.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Aryanking](https://forum.sambapos.com/u/Aryanking)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 5:53pm UTC](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/resolved-notepad-demo-printing-issue/2574/1 "2014-09-13T17:53:17Z")
What can cause Notepad demo printing to stop working? Physical printing works but notepad printing stopped working. ---
**Author:** ![Jesse](https://forum.sambapos.com/user_avatar/forum.sambapos.com/jesse/32/61493_2.png) [@Jesse](https://forum.sambapos.com/u/Jesse)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 5:54pm UTC](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/resolved-notepad-demo-printing-issue/2574/2 "2014-09-13T17:54:01Z")
You have to have something in the Printer Share Name field… even if it is just a . It cannot be blank. Double check this. If that is not what is causing it then it could be your Print Jobs not mapped correctly and you would need to share some screenshots so we can see how you have it setup. ---
**Author:** ![Aryanking](https://forum.sambapos.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Aryanking](https://forum.sambapos.com/u/Aryanking)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/resolved-notepad-demo-printing-issue/2574/3 "2014-09-13T17:56:17Z")
Thanks @kendash , the problem is, there is something in the field, and it was working fine until recently. As long as i assign a physical printer to the printer profile (e.g the Ticket Printer or Kitchen Printer’s profile), it prints fine. So how can this be a mapping issue? ---
**Author:** ![Jesse](https://forum.sambapos.com/user_avatar/forum.sambapos.com/jesse/32/61493_2.png) [@Jesse](https://forum.sambapos.com/u/Jesse)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 5:56pm UTC](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/resolved-notepad-demo-printing-issue/2574/4 "2014-09-13T17:56:46Z")
Share some screenshots of Print Jobs and Printers ---
**Author:** ![Aryanking](https://forum.sambapos.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Aryanking](https://forum.sambapos.com/u/Aryanking)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/resolved-notepad-demo-printing-issue/2574/5 "2014-09-13T18:44:11Z")
![](https://forum.sambapos.com/uploads/default/original/3X/f/2/f23dd008a61e81a7e924f190368e64b41ebfcc22.jpeg) ![](https://forum.sambapos.com/uploads/default/original/3X/e/3/e3a8ef92ee3df284a9f5bcaa2fca2953502742c7.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Jesse](https://forum.sambapos.com/user_avatar/forum.sambapos.com/jesse/32/61493_2.png) [@Jesse](https://forum.sambapos.com/u/Jesse)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 6:45pm UTC](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/resolved-notepad-demo-printing-issue/2574/6 "2014-09-13T18:45:46Z")
My other question will be is this a regular terminal or is it connecting via RDP. I have seen issues with demo printing not working if there are sharing permission problems on a network and with some RDP setups. ---
**Author:** ![Aryanking](https://forum.sambapos.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Aryanking](https://forum.sambapos.com/u/Aryanking)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 6:55pm UTC](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/resolved-notepad-demo-printing-issue/2574/7 "2014-09-13T18:55:04Z")
Its a regular terminal but connects to the database over the LAN. ---
**Author:** ![Jesse](https://forum.sambapos.com/user_avatar/forum.sambapos.com/jesse/32/61493_2.png) [@Jesse](https://forum.sambapos.com/u/Jesse)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/resolved-notepad-demo-printing-issue/2574/8 "2014-09-13T18:56:38Z")
It should not make any difference but I have seen an instance where it did and I could not explain why but try setting the share name to Microsoft XPS Document Writer ---
**Author:** ![Aryanking](https://forum.sambapos.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Aryanking](https://forum.sambapos.com/u/Aryanking)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 7:31pm UTC](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/resolved-notepad-demo-printing-issue/2574/9 "2014-09-13T19:31:51Z")
> [@Jesse](#): > > It should not make any difference but I have seen an instance where it did and I could not explain why but try setting the share name to Microsoft XPS Document Writer No Difference in my case. ---
**Author:** ![Jesse](https://forum.sambapos.com/user_avatar/forum.sambapos.com/jesse/32/61493_2.png) [@Jesse](https://forum.sambapos.com/u/Jesse)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/resolved-notepad-demo-printing-issue/2574/10 "2014-09-13T19:47:39Z")
Hmm odd. As long as you have the action set to use that print job and your executing that action it should print to Notepad. So notepad is blank? Did you check your log file for any errors? `c:\[MyDocuments]\SambaPOS4\log.txt` ---
**Author:** ![Aryanking](https://forum.sambapos.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Aryanking](https://forum.sambapos.com/u/Aryanking)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 8:00pm UTC](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/resolved-notepad-demo-printing-issue/2574/11 "2014-09-13T20:00:05Z")
Blank indeed. However one of my tickets somehow managed to get printed to notepad. But this only happened for one of them. All else blank (Some of these were identical in procedure applied to the one that got printed). Nothing in Log. ---
**Author:** ![Aryanking](https://forum.sambapos.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Aryanking](https://forum.sambapos.com/u/Aryanking)\ **Post date:** [September 13, 2014, 8:36pm UTC](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/resolved-notepad-demo-printing-issue/2574/12 "2014-09-13T20:36:24Z")
@Jesse I found this work around ![](https://forum.sambapos.com/uploads/default/original/3X/2/a/2ad686001037b40d3d1817b028ddf4f162e4eb61.jpeg) ![](https://forum.sambapos.com/uploads/default/original/3X/4/0/4001bfd1ff665541d18549ce6696448d14a9d023.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![emre](https://forum.sambapos.com/user_avatar/forum.sambapos.com/emre/32/39073_2.png) [@emre](https://forum.sambapos.com/u/emre)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2014, 5:29pm UTC](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/resolved-notepad-demo-printing-issue/2574/13 "2014-09-14T17:29:03Z")
Notepad printer tires to locate a window titled as `Notepad`. If you save something title starts to display file name so it may not find it. ---
**Author:** ![Aryanking](https://forum.sambapos.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/c57346/32.png) [@Aryanking](https://forum.sambapos.com/u/Aryanking)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2014, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/resolved-notepad-demo-printing-issue/2574/14 "2014-09-14T18:32:25Z")
@emre Notepad Window is `Untitled` , so maybe some other reason for this unexpected behavior. Even after full system restart or shutdown and start, same unexpected behavior persists. Maybe some other ‘unknown’ value got saved/modified in some key ‘global’ variable in the notepad printing process / event handler.Anyways, I’m just talking silly without knowledge of exactly how this works… 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![spartan](https://forum.sambapos.com/user_avatar/forum.sambapos.com/spartan/32/25077_2.png) [@spartan](https://forum.sambapos.com/u/spartan)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2015, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/resolved-notepad-demo-printing-issue/2574/15 "2015-04-28T12:55:39Z")
Sorry for reviving this. Hope no one minds. I don’t know if anyone else is experiencing the same issue. As I have now for the past few days. I did manage to figure something out though and thought I should pass it along. I found that if Notepad is not minimized you can’t print to it. When you minimize Notepad all works fine. One question, Is there a possibility of allowing the use of another or any other software other than note pad? Could this be a possible user enhancement option in the future? ---
**Author:** ![Jesse](https://forum.sambapos.com/user_avatar/forum.sambapos.com/jesse/32/61493_2.png) [@Jesse](https://forum.sambapos.com/u/Jesse)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2015, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/resolved-notepad-demo-printing-issue/2574/16 "2015-04-28T14:31:19Z")
It works just fine not minimized I use it a lot. You can use send to one note printer to open them in one note. ---
**Author:** ![spartan](https://forum.sambapos.com/user_avatar/forum.sambapos.com/spartan/32/25077_2.png) [@spartan](https://forum.sambapos.com/u/spartan)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2015, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.sambapos.com/t/resolved-notepad-demo-printing-issue/2574/17 "2015-04-28T15:47:29Z")
I can’t figure out why mine is acting up. I looked to see if I could get a hint of what the issue might be. Something clearly changed in my system that inhibits the process or part of it that handles the redirect of output. Don’t know. Thanks!