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?

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

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