This Panasonic printer is installed using Cat 5 ethernet cable.  It appears in Windows Printers as shown below.

control panel printers

on this port    port tab

with this IP and port number    port detail

and with the default driver    default driver

captured as follows: 

(C) Copyright 1985-2000 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>net view \\hp
Shared resources at \\hp



Share name   Type         Used as  Comment

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
C            Disk
Install      Disk
KX-MB781     Print                 Panasonic KX-MB781
The command completed successfully.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>net use LPT2: \\hp\kx-mb781
The command completed successfully.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>cd \lyon
C:\LYON>net use
New connections will be remembered.


Status       Local     Remote                    Network

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
OK           F:        \\Duron\apps              Microsoft Windows Network
OK           T:        \\Hp17\administrator      Microsoft Windows Network
Disconnected U:        \\Duron\administrator\HP  Microsoft Windows Network
OK           Y:        \\Duron\apps\Install      Microsoft Windows Network
OK           LPT2      \\hp\kx-mb781             Microsoft Windows Network
OK           LPT3      \\duron\sp                Microsoft Windows Network
The command completed successfully.

C:\LYON>charter john
                       +--------------------------------+
                       ¦  *** COMPANY FILE LISTING ***  ¦
                       +--------------------------------+

                  +------------------------------------------+
                  ¦   Starting Company ID:          ------   ¦
                  ¦                                          ¦
                  ¦   Ending   Company ID:          ++++++   ¦
                  +------------------------------------------¦
                  ¦   Print mode:                            ¦
                  ¦                                          ¦
                  ¦   <P>rinter <D>isplay <F>ile         P   ¦
                  +------------------------------------------+

screenshot

This printer requires special software in order to work in DOS.
See the "GDI" in the driver name?
That's why.

See GDI Printer for an explanation default driver

Software to allow DOS to print to a GDI printer

I was able to get Lyon to print to this printer by installing a shareware program named DOSPRN.  FIXLPT causes DOSPRN to start, so be sure FIXLPT is loaded just before CH in the batch file you use to run Lyon.  I couldn't find a way to have DOSPRN work except on LPT1:, so if you have a parallel printer attached to your computer, DOSPRN is not likely to work for you.
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