Re: Sending printer control codes

[Lou Schmaus <lschmaus@xxxxxxxx>]

Matthias Oertli wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to send some control codes to a Lexmark 4226 dot
> matrix printer, eg. ESC W1 to set double width or ESC W0 to
> cancel it again.
> The problem is the ESC character (1Bh). 
>>


Matthias,

How are you connecting the printer to the AS/400? If I remember
correctly, the 4226 has a parallel/serial interface, so I assume you
are  either attaching it to a twinax terminal or using some kind of
twinax emulation box.  Both of these methods require setting up a
"printer pass-thru" character, many times the ESC or && of %%
characters, which tells the terminal or emulation board to send the
following characters directly through to the printer without trying to
interpret them. Many twinax boards which privide IPDS or barcode fonts
can also use the ESC character for their own built-in functions, and
that may be the cause of the problem.


Hope this helps,



Lou Schmaus
Creative Computer Associates, Inc.
Parlin, NJ 08859
lschmaus@home.com
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