Re: [U2] Fancy Printer
[Better late than never...] Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted: :: First, any recommendations on a multiple paper printer. For :: example, the first page would be tray 1 with a letterhead, :: Page 2 would be a form using tray 2 and pages 3,4,5 etc :: would be tray 3 having white paper. :: :: Have a working knowledge of HP PCL (5/6) I just don't know :: which printer could handle this kind of output. If the :: printer could staple the pages together, it would be :: that much better. Hewlett-Packard's 4250 series LaserJets can be fitted with up to five input trays and a stapler/stacker attachment on the output side. This is your best way to go, I think, but they aren't cheap. -- Lawrence M. Kessler, MBA, CDP Space City Systems 713-858-8886 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Fancy Printer
Kyocera will have no problem making these kinds of print jobs, and you save the hassle of pcl, instead you can do it all in prescribe which is an excellent control language for kyocera printers, besides they have a very low consumption of spare parts :-) best regards from freezing cold and wet denmark Claus Derlien edb-afdelingen direkte : 63 13 86 69 email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Larry Kessler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 21, 2004 12:54 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [U2] Fancy Printer [Better late than never...] Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted: :: First, any recommendations on a multiple paper printer. For :: example, the first page would be tray 1 with a letterhead, :: Page 2 would be a form using tray 2 and pages 3,4,5 etc :: would be tray 3 having white paper. :: :: Have a working knowledge of HP PCL (5/6) I just don't know :: which printer could handle this kind of output. If the :: printer could staple the pages together, it would be :: that much better. Hewlett-Packard's 4250 series LaserJets can be fitted with up to five input trays and a stapler/stacker attachment on the output side. This is your best way to go, I think, but they aren't cheap. -- Lawrence M. Kessler, MBA, CDP Space City Systems 713-858-8886 [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ Frie Funktionfrer - faglig organisation og tvfrfaglig a-kasse - www.f-f.dk *** Denne email og alle filer vedlagt som bilag kan indeholde fortroligt materiale, der kun er beregnet for adressaten, og maa ikke udleveres eller kopieres til uvedkommende. Har De ved en fejltagelse modtaget denne email, bedes De venligst omgaaende meddele os dette pr. telefon : 6313 8550. Paa forhaand tak. *** This email and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential information intended for the addressee(s) only. The information is not to be surrendered or copied to unauthorised persons. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by telephone: +45 6313 8550. Thank you. *** --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Fancy Printer
Well we use Kyocera, which apart from extremely low operating costs gives us 'prescribe', so we can control the printer in clear writing from within basic, no obscure pcl junk to learn. CALL !SET.PTR(UNIT,192,99,3,3,1,'NHEAD, AT GIROPRINT') PRINT ON UNIT !R! FONT 6; INTL 4,1; EXIT; . . normal program flow which does all the printing . if we need graphics or watermarks we can do them with prescribe here too . PRINT ON UNIT !R! RESET; EXIT; Claus Derlien edb-afdelingen direkte : 63 13 86 69 email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Frie Funktionfrer - faglig organisation og tvfrfaglig a-kasse - www.f-f.dk *** Denne email og alle filer vedlagt som bilag kan indeholde fortroligt materiale, der kun er beregnet for adressaten, og maa ikke udleveres eller kopieres til uvedkommende. Har De ved en fejltagelse modtaget denne email, bedes De venligst omgaaende meddele os dette pr. telefon : 6313 8550. Paa forhaand tak. *** This email and any files transmitted with it may contain confidential information intended for the addressee(s) only. The information is not to be surrendered or copied to unauthorised persons. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by telephone: +45 6313 8550. Thank you. *** --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Fancy Printer
Mark: A typical D3 solution is to: 1) sp-assign 2) sp-open 3) print PCL5 escape sequences 4) print report 5) print PCL5 ending sequences (usually [Esc]+E) 6) sp-close 7) sp-assign Hope this helps. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 10:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U2] Fancy Printer Two printer questions: First, any recommendations on a multiple paper printer. For example, the first page would be tray 1 with a letterhead, Page 2 would be a form using tray 2 and pages 3,4,5 etc would be tray 3 having white paper. Have a working knowledge of HP PCL (5/6) I just don't know which printer could handle this kind of output. If the printer could staple the pages together, it would be that much better. I've seen copy machines with this kind of magic. I'm just looking for some direction in choosing a printer. Second, sort of for D3. Are there any repetitive printer strings that could be send to the printer that precedes the actual output for each hold file. I'm dancing with a few clients having medium HP printers and the same report comes out landscape or portrait depending on the previous output (pick or word documents etc). I would like to either precede the output with an ESC E to clear to the defaults or actually force the default continuously. Presently I'm managing each report program by hand but there should be a more global solution. These are Laserjet Series 6's. I don't have this problem on HP 2000 series. Thanks in advance. --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] Fancy Printer
That's roughly the approach I've been taking. The problem is to interject these lines into the dozens, maybe hundreds of reports either in English or Basic that are scattered throughout the procs in the application. Too bad you cannot have an 'initiation string' that hayes modems had to preceed the output. thanks. - Original Message - From: Bill H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 6:28 AM Subject: RE: [U2] Fancy Printer Mark: A typical D3 solution is to: 1) sp-assign 2) sp-open 3) print PCL5 escape sequences 4) print report 5) print PCL5 ending sequences (usually [Esc]+E) 6) sp-close 7) sp-assign Hope this helps. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 10:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U2] Fancy Printer Two printer questions: First, any recommendations on a multiple paper printer. For example, the first page would be tray 1 with a letterhead, Page 2 would be a form using tray 2 and pages 3,4,5 etc would be tray 3 having white paper. Have a working knowledge of HP PCL (5/6) I just don't know which printer could handle this kind of output. If the printer could staple the pages together, it would be that much better. I've seen copy machines with this kind of magic. I'm just looking for some direction in choosing a printer. Second, sort of for D3. Are there any repetitive printer strings that could be send to the printer that precedes the actual output for each hold file. I'm dancing with a few clients having medium HP printers and the same report comes out landscape or portrait depending on the previous output (pick or word documents etc). I would like to either precede the output with an ESC E to clear to the defaults or actually force the default continuously. Presently I'm managing each report program by hand but there should be a more global solution. These are Laserjet Series 6's. I don't have this problem on HP 2000 series. Thanks in advance. --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] Fancy Printer
Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 01:56:37 -0400 From: Mark Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U2] Fancy Printer ... Second, sort of for D3. Are there any repetitive printer strings that could be send to the printer that precedes the actual output for each hold file. I'm dancing with a few clients having medium HP printers and the same report comes out landscape or portrait depending on the previous output (pick or word documents etc). I would like to either precede the output with an ESC E to clear to the defaults or actually force the default continuously. Are you using D3 from Windows or some *nix variant? When we first added our printers to the Windows network (we previously had them only attached to the AIX system) we had to do a few things. The easiest was to have AIX Defaults set to no initialization and restore printer. This let AIX reset the printer after each job, as Windows seemed to be doing this as well. If you have strictly Windows printers, I would make certain they include an Esc-E at the end of each job. Sorry I can't give you specifics, but this would leave the printer at default settings, and the next job would have to change what it needed. --Tom Pellitieri Century Equipment --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] Fancy Printer
Call Xerox and have a look at their Docuprint line of printers. The units come with a Sun workstation that handles the print ripping chores and a 65-135 page per minute print engine. I was able to set two of these up to print our bills. The bills come out with different color paper, letter head built on the fly, water marks and stapling. All the fancy stuff is done with embedded strings at the start of the print job and with a little pit of postscript on the printer side. This description does not do it justice The Xerox printers can even emulate greenbar paper without doing any programming or changes on the UniVerse/D3/Pick side. One other thing you can do with these printers is to have the printer do all the work of essentially merging a plain text stream with a postscript file which is used to describe all the fancy stuff. Don Kibbey Financial Systems Manager Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett Dunner LLP --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Fancy Printer
Actually, you can, if your running universe on unix. You can modify the printer driver script that interfaces universe with unix printers. Like below: [EMAIL PROTECTED] lpt.drivers]$ cat driver.PR22 (cat /usr/uv/lpt.drivers/switch2 ; cat - | /usr/mbin/lf2crlf ; echo -n ) | lp -d PR32 The example above first sends codes to switch a Printek to a different paper channel then sends the document (after converting lf-cr/lf), then follows with a FF (can't see it. it looks like on the example, but it's actually a FF hardcoded). ex. (cat /file_with_prefix_codes ; cat - ; cat /file_with_suffix_codes) | lp -d unixprinter George -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 8:29 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [U2] Fancy Printer That's roughly the approach I've been taking. The problem is to interject these lines into the dozens, maybe hundreds of reports either in English or Basic that are scattered throughout the procs in the application. Too bad you cannot have an 'initiation string' that hayes modems had to preceed the output. thanks. - Original Message - From: Bill H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 6:28 AM Subject: RE: [U2] Fancy Printer Mark: A typical D3 solution is to: 1) sp-assign 2) sp-open 3) print PCL5 escape sequences 4) print report 5) print PCL5 ending sequences (usually [Esc]+E) 6) sp-close 7) sp-assign Hope this helps. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 10:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U2] Fancy Printer Two printer questions: First, any recommendations on a multiple paper printer. For example, the first page would be tray 1 with a letterhead, Page 2 would be a form using tray 2 and pages 3,4,5 etc would be tray 3 having white paper. Have a working knowledge of HP PCL (5/6) I just don't know which printer could handle this kind of output. If the printer could staple the pages together, it would be that much better. I've seen copy machines with this kind of magic. I'm just looking for some direction in choosing a printer. Second, sort of for D3. Are there any repetitive printer strings that could be send to the printer that precedes the actual output for each hold file. I'm dancing with a few clients having medium HP printers and the same report comes out landscape or portrait depending on the previous output (pick or word documents etc). I would like to either precede the output with an ESC E to clear to the defaults or actually force the default continuously. Presently I'm managing each report program by hand but there should be a more global solution. These are Laserjet Series 6's. I don't have this problem on HP 2000 series. Thanks in advance. --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] Fancy Printer
I use initiation strings with my PCL printers all the time. How? We assign the printers by running a VOC SETPTR PAragraph: 0001 PA Used For HP 4200TN In Computer Room 0002 SETPTR 0,132,60,1,3,1,BRIEF,NFMT,NHEAD,AT CRHP,INFORM 0004 RUN BP SET.HPLASER CHR16 The SET.HPLASER program sends, in the above case, CHR16, a variable holding ESC:(s0p16H. It's not a very complex program. If you want a copy, email me off-list. You can string one or several of them, too. Here's a short list of PCL codes I use regularly: 0001 *(HP.LASER) - HP LASER CODES 0002 * 0003ESC = CHAR(27); *Escape Character 0004SYMSET = ESC:(#10U ; *IBM Symbol Set 0005TMG = ESC:l0E ; *Top Margin 0006LPIN12 = ESC:l12D ; *12 Lines Per Inch 0007LPIN6 = ESC:l6D; *6 Lines Per Inch 0008LPIN8 = ESC:l8D; *8 Lines Per Inch 0009BIG20 = ESC:(s1p20v0s4B; *Proportional, Bold, 20 Points 0010BIG15 = ESC:(s1p15v0s4B ; *Proportional, Bold, 15 PointS 0011BIG12 = ESC:(s1p12v0s4B; *Proportional, Bold, 12 Points 0012BIG10 = ESC:(s1p10v0s4B; *Proportional, Bold, 10 Points 0013BIG8 = ESC:(s1p8v0s4B ; *Proportional, Bold, 8 Points 0014BIG7 = ESC:(s1p7v0s4B ; *Proportional, Bold, 7 Points 0015BIG6 = ESC:(s0p6h4B ; *Fixed Bold 6cpi 0016BOLD = ESC:(s4B ; *Bold Print On 0017BOLDOFF = ESC:(s0B ; *Bold Print Off 0018CHR10 = ESC:(s0p10H ; *10 Char, Normal Print 0019CHR12 = ESC:(s0p12H ; *12 Character Print 0020CHR14 = ESC:(s0p14H ; *14 Character Print 0021CHR15 = ESC:(s0p15H ; *15 Character Print 0022CHR16 = ESC:(s0p16H ; *16 Character Print 0023CHR17 = ESC:(s0p17H ; *17 Character Print 0024CHR175 = ESC:(s0p17.5H ; *17.5 Character Print 0025CHR20 = ESC:(s0p20H ; *20 Character 0026RESET = ESC:E ; *Printer Reset 0027SKPER = ESC:l0L; *0 Disable Perforation Skip 0034DBLNG = ESC:l1S; *Duplex book 0035DBLSH = ESC:'l2S'; *Duplex tablet 0036DBLOFF = ESC:l0S ; *Duplex off 0037LANDSCAPE = ESC:l1O; *Landscape on 0038LANDOFF = ESC:l0O ; *Landscape off 0039 ! To set length of page, send ESC:l#P where # = 60,56... 0040 ! For Postscript mode (ESC:E to return to PCL): 0041POSTSCRIPT1 = ESC:%-12345X 0042POSTSCRIPT2 = '@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = PostScript' 0043OKI = ESC:'(s6t17h4B':LPIN8 ; * condensed fixed Hope this helps. Karl On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 06:29, Mark Johnson wrote: That's roughly the approach I've been taking. The problem is to interject these lines into the dozens, maybe hundreds of reports either in English or Basic that are scattered throughout the procs in the application. Too bad you cannot have an 'initiation string' that hayes modems had to preceed the output. thanks. - Original Message - From: Bill H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 6:28 AM Subject: RE: [U2] Fancy Printer Mark: A typical D3 solution is to: 1) sp-assign 2) sp-open 3) print PCL5 escape sequences 4) print report 5) print PCL5 ending sequences (usually [Esc]+E) 6) sp-close 7) sp-assign Hope this helps. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 10:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U2] Fancy Printer Two printer questions: First, any recommendations on a multiple paper printer. For example, the first page would be tray 1 with a letterhead, Page 2 would be a form using tray 2 and pages 3,4,5 etc would be tray 3 having white paper. Have a working knowledge of HP PCL (5/6) I just don't know which printer could handle this kind of output. If the printer could staple the pages together, it would be that much better. I've seen copy machines with this kind of magic. I'm just looking for some direction in choosing a printer. Second, sort of for D3. Are there any repetitive printer strings that could be send to the printer that precedes the actual output for each hold file. I'm dancing with a few clients having medium HP printers and the same report comes out landscape or portrait depending on the previous output (pick or word documents etc). I would like to either precede the output with an ESC E to clear to the defaults or actually force the default continuously. Presently I'm managing each report program by hand but there should be a more global solution. These are Laserjet Series 6's. I don't have this problem on HP 2000 series. Thanks in advance. --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing
RE: [U2] Fancy Printer
We did a similar thing. We had some basic routines that we called that set everything up. Print.portrait and print.landscape were the two most common. For the English reports we even updated the list and sort verbs to call the routines (we renamed list and sort, made list/sort basic routines that did what we needed with the printers and then called the renamed versions). It worked well. Hth Colin Alfke currently LA -Original Message- From: Karl L Pearson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 8:10 AM To: u2-users Subject: Re: [U2] Fancy Printer I use initiation strings with my PCL printers all the time. How? We assign the printers by running a VOC SETPTR PAragraph: 0001 PA Used For HP 4200TN In Computer Room 0002 SETPTR 0,132,60,1,3,1,BRIEF,NFMT,NHEAD,AT CRHP,INFORM 0004 RUN BP SET.HPLASER CHR16 The SET.HPLASER program sends, in the above case, CHR16, a variable holding ESC:(s0p16H. It's not a very complex program. If you want a copy, email me off-list. You can string one or several of them, too. Here's a short list of PCL codes I use regularly: 0001 *(HP.LASER) - HP LASER CODES 0002 * 0003ESC = CHAR(27); *Escape Character 0004SYMSET = ESC:(#10U ; *IBM Symbol Set 0005TMG = ESC:l0E ; *Top Margin 0006LPIN12 = ESC:l12D ; *12 Lines Per Inch 0007LPIN6 = ESC:l6D; *6 Lines Per Inch 0008LPIN8 = ESC:l8D; *8 Lines Per Inch 0009BIG20 = ESC:(s1p20v0s4B; *Proportional, Bold, 20 Points 0010BIG15 = ESC:(s1p15v0s4B ; *Proportional, Bold, 15 PointS 0011BIG12 = ESC:(s1p12v0s4B; *Proportional, Bold, 12 Points 0012BIG10 = ESC:(s1p10v0s4B; *Proportional, Bold, 10 Points 0013BIG8 = ESC:(s1p8v0s4B ; *Proportional, Bold, 8 Points 0014BIG7 = ESC:(s1p7v0s4B ; *Proportional, Bold, 7 Points 0015BIG6 = ESC:(s0p6h4B ; *Fixed Bold 6cpi 0016BOLD = ESC:(s4B ; *Bold Print On 0017BOLDOFF = ESC:(s0B ; *Bold Print Off 0018CHR10 = ESC:(s0p10H ; *10 Char, Normal Print 0019CHR12 = ESC:(s0p12H ; *12 Character Print 0020CHR14 = ESC:(s0p14H ; *14 Character Print 0021CHR15 = ESC:(s0p15H ; *15 Character Print 0022CHR16 = ESC:(s0p16H ; *16 Character Print 0023CHR17 = ESC:(s0p17H ; *17 Character Print 0024CHR175 = ESC:(s0p17.5H ; *17.5 Character Print 0025CHR20 = ESC:(s0p20H ; *20 Character 0026RESET = ESC:E ; *Printer Reset 0027SKPER = ESC:l0L; *0 Disable Perforation Skip 0034DBLNG = ESC:l1S; *Duplex book 0035DBLSH = ESC:'l2S'; *Duplex tablet 0036DBLOFF = ESC:l0S ; *Duplex off 0037LANDSCAPE = ESC:l1O; *Landscape on 0038LANDOFF = ESC:l0O ; *Landscape off 0039 ! To set length of page, send ESC:l#P where # = 60,56... 0040 ! For Postscript mode (ESC:E to return to PCL): 0041POSTSCRIPT1 = ESC:%-12345X 0042POSTSCRIPT2 = '@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = PostScript' 0043OKI = ESC:'(s6t17h4B':LPIN8 ; * condensed fixed Hope this helps. Karl On Wed, 2004-10-06 at 06:29, Mark Johnson wrote: That's roughly the approach I've been taking. The problem is to interject these lines into the dozens, maybe hundreds of reports either in English or Basic that are scattered throughout the procs in the application. Too bad you cannot have an 'initiation string' that hayes modems had to preceed the output. thanks. --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Fancy Printer
We used Printek printers at my old place of employment. We ended up buying three of them as they work very well. Unless someone staples forms together to save a couple of forms, in which case the print head will break and cost $400 bucks to replace because they don't cover stupidity in the warrantee. I set up the non-greenbar forms so they would switch to the desired form, do the print, and then switch back to greenbar when done. This way, only the special forms programs needed to be changed, and everything was totally automatic. Very nice. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 22:57 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U2] Fancy Printer Two printer questions: First, any recommendations on a multiple paper printer. For example, the first page would be tray 1 with a letterhead, Page 2 would be a form using tray 2 and pages 3,4,5 etc would be tray 3 having white paper. Have a working knowledge of HP PCL (5/6) I just don't know which printer could handle this kind of output. If the printer could staple the pages together, it would be that much better. I've seen copy machines with this kind of magic. I'm just looking for some direction in choosing a printer. Second, sort of for D3. Are there any repetitive printer strings that could be send to the printer that precedes the actual output for each hold file. I'm dancing with a few clients having medium HP printers and the same report comes out landscape or portrait depending on the previous output (pick or word documents etc). I would like to either precede the output with an ESC E to clear to the defaults or actually force the default continuously. Presently I'm managing each report program by hand but there should be a more global solution. These are Laserjet Series 6's. I don't have this problem on HP 2000 series. Thanks in advance. --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
Re: [U2] Fancy Printer
At 22:29 06/10/04, you wrote: That's roughly the approach I've been taking. The problem is to interject these lines into the dozens, maybe hundreds of reports either in English or Basic that are scattered throughout the procs in the application. Too bad you cannot have an 'initiation string' that hayes modems had to preceed the output. Asked for, and made the Pick Systems list of things to do in , I think, 1998... Heard nothing since. That's progress With UV on Windows, we've used Page Separators or SETPTR ...GUI, FONTNAME, FONTSIZE for years... *nix, I have no idea thanks. - Original Message - From: Bill H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 6:28 AM Subject: RE: [U2] Fancy Printer Mark: A typical D3 solution is to: 1) sp-assign 2) sp-open 3) print PCL5 escape sequences 4) print report 5) print PCL5 ending sequences (usually [Esc]+E) 6) sp-close 7) sp-assign Hope this helps. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 10:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U2] Fancy Printer Two printer questions: First, any recommendations on a multiple paper printer. For example, the first page would be tray 1 with a letterhead, Page 2 would be a form using tray 2 and pages 3,4,5 etc would be tray 3 having white paper. Have a working knowledge of HP PCL (5/6) I just don't know which printer could handle this kind of output. If the printer could staple the pages together, it would be that much better. I've seen copy machines with this kind of magic. I'm just looking for some direction in choosing a printer. Second, sort of for D3. Are there any repetitive printer strings that could be send to the printer that precedes the actual output for each hold file. I'm dancing with a few clients having medium HP printers and the same report comes out landscape or portrait depending on the previous output (pick or word documents etc). I would like to either precede the output with an ESC E to clear to the defaults or actually force the default continuously. Presently I'm managing each report program by hand but there should be a more global solution. These are Laserjet Series 6's. I don't have this problem on HP 2000 series. Thanks in advance. --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ -- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 7.0.271 / Virus Database: 264.10.0 - Release Date: 05/10/04 Regards, Bruce Nichol Talon Computer Services ALBURYNSW 2640 Australia Tel: +61 (0)411149636 Fax: +61 (0)260232119 If it ain't broke, fix it till it is! -- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 7.0.271 / Virus Database: 264.10.0 - Release Date: 05/10/04 --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
RE: [U2] Fancy Printer
Bruce: D3 has always had an excellent solution. They create a printer device item just like they do a terminal device. When we do a: CRT @(-3):@(-13):HELLO:@(-14) for a terminal we can do: PRINT @(-143):The printer has been initialized and is in landscape mode.:@(-110) This would have been great of all the mvDbms players had implemented it. Oh well Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bruce Nichol Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 3:01 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [U2] Fancy Printer At 22:29 06/10/04, you wrote: That's roughly the approach I've been taking. The problem is to interject these lines into the dozens, maybe hundreds of reports either in English or Basic that are scattered throughout the procs in the application. Too bad you cannot have an 'initiation string' that hayes modems had to preceed the output. Asked for, and made the Pick Systems list of things to do in , I think, 1998... Heard nothing since. That's progress With UV on Windows, we've used Page Separators or SETPTR ...GUI, FONTNAME, FONTSIZE for years... *nix, I have no idea thanks. - Original Message - From: Bill H. [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 6:28 AM Subject: RE: [U2] Fancy Printer Mark: A typical D3 solution is to: 1) sp-assign 2) sp-open 3) print PCL5 escape sequences 4) print report 5) print PCL5 ending sequences (usually [Esc]+E) 6) sp-close 7) sp-assign Hope this helps. Bill -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Mark Johnson Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2004 10:57 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [U2] Fancy Printer Two printer questions: First, any recommendations on a multiple paper printer. For example, the first page would be tray 1 with a letterhead, Page 2 would be a form using tray 2 and pages 3,4,5 etc would be tray 3 having white paper. Have a working knowledge of HP PCL (5/6) I just don't know which printer could handle this kind of output. If the printer could staple the pages together, it would be that much better. I've seen copy machines with this kind of magic. I'm just looking for some direction in choosing a printer. Second, sort of for D3. Are there any repetitive printer strings that could be send to the printer that precedes the actual output for each hold file. I'm dancing with a few clients having medium HP printers and the same report comes out landscape or portrait depending on the previous output (pick or word documents etc). I would like to either precede the output with an ESC E to clear to the defaults or actually force the default continuously. Presently I'm managing each report program by hand but there should be a more global solution. These are Laserjet Series 6's. I don't have this problem on HP 2000 series. Thanks in advance. --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ -- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 7.0.271 / Virus Database: 264.10.0 - Release Date: 05/10/04 Regards, Bruce Nichol Talon Computer Services ALBURYNSW 2640 Australia Tel: +61 (0)411149636 Fax: +61 (0)260232119 If it ain't broke, fix it till it is! -- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 7.0.271 / Virus Database: 264.10.0 - Release Date: 05/10/04 --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ --- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
