Re: Writing PCL to an AS/400 attached HP laser printer

["Paul Tykodi" <p.tykodi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Richard,

The programming trick that I have seen other people use is to write all of
the PCL commands on line 1. Your program thinks you are printing data on top
of itself and therefore sends no line termination commands.

HTH

Best Regards,

/Paul
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>date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 10:44:27 -0500
>from: "Richard Casey" <casey_r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>subject: Writing PCL to an AS/400 attached HP laser printer
>
>Hi!
>
>I'm trying to send PCL commands to my HP laser printer. After browsing
>through the archives, I found that I can just build the necessary character
>string (using X'1B' for the <esc> character) and send it to the printer.
>That works great until the length of my PCL command is longer than my print
>line length. If I break my PCL command into 2 lines and send them to the
>printer, I get print positioning commands inserted between the two lines.
Is
>there a way to send lots of data to the printer without getting those pesky
>print positioning commands in the way?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Richard Casey