Create an LPT Printer in Windows

LPT printers and computers that have LPT ports are becoming rare.  If you use any legacy or DOS programs, you may still have a need to print to LPT printers.  Windows has a simple way that you can map a "network printer" to an LPT port to allow for LPT printing.  Here's how.  Open a command prompt and enter the following command and press enter:

net use lpt1 \\printserver\laser1 /persistent:yes

LPT1 is the LPT port number.  You could also use LPT2, etc.
PrintServer is the name of the server/PC that is sharing the printer.
Laser1 is the share name of the printer device.
Persistent yes keeps the mapping after you reboot, making it permanent, until you manually delete it.

Even if your printer is a local USB one, you can share it and map to your own share name.

Microsoft Support article on the topic can be found here.