Re: Printronix Label Printers.

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yep tried that!

It then makes the sequece  0D  0A  0D _20_  where the printer is 
expecting 0D 0A 0D _0A_ and thus it prints errors again.

    - Larry

On 7/19/2012 5:04 PM, Yvan Janssens wrote:
> Have you tried replacing it with a space? (0x20)
>
> If the device is expecting ASCII, then a space shouldn't spawn errors,
> right?
>
> Yvan
>
> 2012/7/19 DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> > Is anyone using Printronix label printers LAN connected for the
> > exclusive purpose of printing pre-formatted labels?
> >
> > We have beat this problem to death, IBM is out of ideas (up to "You can
> > pay for a consultant.")
> >
> > Problem is that IBM i (5.4) is sending an occasional '0C' (feed
> > character.)  When that is in the middle of the label command language
> > stream it's fine because the printer's control process ignores it.
> > However when it happens to be in the ASCII bits between labels where the
> > 'EXECUTE FORM' is sent, then it causes that row of labels to print Twice!
> >
> > Attempting to use a WSCST object to replace the 0C with nothing (i.e.
> > DATA = ''X) fails because ''X and '00'X work out to the same thing. So
> > the 00 appears instead of the 0C and that sends the printer wacko and it
> > prints errors instead of labels.
> >
> > I tried to be cute by replacing the 0C with a 0A because the 0C was
> > overlaying 0A. Worked for printing BUT the system always sends an 0C at
> > the end of the print file so now it sends 0A and that wacks the
> > alignment by one line for each label job.
> >
> > SOMEBODY has to be using these printers??? Thoughts?
> >
> >       - Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis.
> >
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