Gudday Bruce,
Thanks for your reply and hopes that IBM will come to the party with
Windows printers.
Do you believe in a fat man, read coat, big bushy beard too. Drives
a reindeer drawn carriage....
I have used UniVerse for over twenty years and the solution to most
programs is to program around them as you get very response from
whomever is in control. Sad to say....
Back to the drawingboard.
Thanks again
Louis
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From: "Bruce Nichol" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org>
Sent: Monday, May 22, 2006 11:43 AM
Subject: Re: [U2] Help with non functional printer
Goo'day, again, Louis,
At 10:53 22/05/06 +0800, you wrote:
With further "messing about" using the GDI,DEFAULT addition I now can
print text at least.
It doesn't seem to support even PCL3 as a simple orientation string (to
select landscape printing) is ignored. Also the graphic set, like "light
down
and left/light down and right/light horizontal etc are completely screwed.
As I said... A sub-set of PCL 3, but I'm surprised it doesn't support
ESC:'&l0O' for landscape..... Perhaps as time passes, these sorts of
printers are further removed from the ability to programatically control
them.
But you should consider sending the PCL landscape, A4 (??), etc to the
printer as a "page separator" (.sep file).
We also use:
GDI
FONTNAME Courier New <--- Notethe Upper/lower case
FONTSIZE 8
in SETPTR statements which gives about 178 charsx60 lines per A4 page.
Perhaps *you* will be the one who gives IBM the straw that breaks the
camel's back and they set about looking to use Winblows printer drivers,
but you'll have to fight the *nix side of the fence first.... Nobody
that I know of in the past 12 years has been able to convince anybody
involved with UV (from VMark onward) that Windows printer drivers are used
by the rest of the world.....
HTH
Well, at least I can now print text so that is a gain but any further
suggestions
to print graphic characters would be appreciated.
I am really puzzled as under Windows it is a superb printer. Does
everything
I hoped it would but un UniVerse ....
Bits vs characters...
Thanks for the responses so far,
Louis
Goo'day, Louis,At 06:56 22/05/06 +0800, you wrote:
It's a Canon PIXMA iP4000 printer using the driver off the installation
CD.
Needless to say the printer works fine under windows.
When I do a SPOOL -LIST
UV lists:-
Printer: Microsoft Office Document Image Writer
no entries.
Printer: Canon PIXMA iP4000
no entries
When I append the GDI,NODEFAULT it prints but it lists the file with
line
numbers and a
Record 1 File &HOLD& Account ... and time and date Header and Footer
The escape character is printed as ^027
graphic characters printed as ^218^196^194 etc
Thanks, at least it prints sofar. More help please.
As far as I can determine, a PIXMA printer is a "jet" printer, and as far
back as I can recall, jet printers are all "Windows GDI" printers, that
is, they have no local intelligence, all work is done by the printer
driver. They usually come with a minimum of PCL capability (a sub-set
of PCL3, normally), and because of this, are unsuitable for UV work.
They normally can't even draw a straight line. You are limited, in all
probability, to straight text, and with a very limited number of fonts -
at least we always were.
We have found sometimes, as a previous poster said, that we can
"redirect" printing from a fully-capable PCL printer to a jet printer and
get reasonable output, but not without a deal of work, and support
thereafter (Users? "It's a printer, isn't it?" "What's wrong with your
software? Everything else prints" !!!!) About the only "permanent"
fix we've found is usually bound up in non-freebie third-party tools...
or a change, now from UV to Reality (I believe Northgate now supports
Windows GDI printers)...
And, don't let UV's SETPTR option of GDI fool you... It's not really
there to support el-cheapo Windows GDI printers. There is a
difference...
Sorry I cannot be of more assistance.
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