Is it consistent, i.e. do you always get the same garbled output for a given file?
At a fast glance it looks like bits 2 and/or 3 are being dropped; have you checked the computer to Pi cable and connectors? m On Sun, Mar 17, 2024 at 2:14 AM Will Senn <will.s...@gmail.com> wrote: > I am finally coming back around to this. I bought a retroprinter a year > and half ago or so and shelved it out of frustration. Now, I know a lot > more about this sorta stuff and so I pulled it out, updated the software to > latest and tried to get it working. > > The PI prints a test page fine, but it won't print anything I send it from > the M100. After hours of troubleshooting, it appears that whatever codes > the pi is sending aren't DMP-15, EPSON ESC/P or Plain Text codes... When I > do llist, I see the data coming across to the retroprinter and have set up > a file to capture, but I can't find anything that will make sense of the > data. > > Here's a sample: > > 10 PRMN\ "lmllo" > 1= RMS\ORM =0>NORM=0\O1>RMALR,M-,Q,,M-,C,,M,0-,C,,M,1->CL,M-=0>NM\\M > 20 M=0 > 2= O=0>OOS]B<0 > 30 OOS]B<= > > It looks like reasonably valid data and not complete gibberish, but who am > I to judge. Is it one of: > > Epson ESC/P 9 Pin - didn't work, when I tried it > Epson ESC/P 24/48 Pin > HP Printer (PCL3 or PCL5) > HP Plotter (HP-GL) > IBM ProPrinter > Plain Text - didn't work, when I tried it > Postscript > Printronix-P Series > Printronix-S Series > Seiko QT-2100P > Siemens PT-88 > Apple Image Writer II > Seiko STP > Star Micronics SP700 > Tandy DMP-105 - didn't work, when I tried it > > Help and thank you. > >
