dont use a printer driver. (like the of and if fields in the old printcap file) or, possibly encapsulate your job inside a PJL wrapper.
<esc>%-12345<esc>E....pcl print job......<esc>E<esc>%-12345 BTW, ESC:"Z" "should" take the printer out of "control" mode not do a form feed? I have never used it, so I don't know. Char(12) will do a FF, <esc>E will also if there is anything that was printed. George >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Peter Ivanick >Sent: Wednesday, June 08, 2005 3:19 PM >To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org >Subject: [U2] customized PCL out (was Again with Setting a Network >Printer in Linux) > > >Ok, we've tracked this down further -- the forms which are having >trouble printing are using two subroutines my programmer's made (and >used successfully in lots of OS scenarios excepting Linux) which 1) >define a lot of printer control codes such as: > > ESC = CHAR(27) > LANDS = ESC:"&l1O" > PORTR = ESC:"&l0O" > COURR = ESC:"(8U" ;* & LINE PRINTER > TMSRM = ESC:"(0U" ;* & HELV BOLD > XXXXM = ESC:"(10U" ;*UNK > HALFL = ESC:"=" > FFPRM = ESC:"Z" ;** FORM FEED PROMPT > >and 2) draw the boxes we were seeing, respectively. When I capture the >output stuck in the lp queue it turns out to be PCL, which we can turn >into a PDF with a converter, and which appears the same way as I was >able to get printout, i.e. boxes but not the accompanying text. > >Alternatively, if I use enscript rather than lp in the driver, >I can get >the text output with all the PCL codes inline. > >I know wew're getting pretty site specific here but has anyone >run into >this previously? How do you typically handle laserjet output where you >need some minimal graphics, is this customized set of printer codes >still sensible & I just need to figure out how to get the printer to >interpret them correctly & fire off the resulting output? > >Any hints/tips/ideas gratefully received, and again, thanks to >everyone >who's replied here, very much a help. ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
