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ESC character and PCL
I am trying to upload 3 fonts to a HP Laserjet 4100 and continue to
have problems. I am using a .bat file to load the fonts. The problem I believe is that the printer is not reading the ESC character I have in my pcl files. I understand that 27 = ESC I was using (Cntl [ |) but that didnt work. Then I had a pcl file with ESC characters already in it - so I copied the ESC character and used it in my pcl files. That worked once and now it wont work again. I have turned the printer off and unplugged it. I believe the problem with my file is that the printer is not recognizing my ESC character. How do you insert an ESC character into a .pcl file? I am using the following code below. echo downloading Ar080bpn.sfp Softfont copy /b font9.pcl lpt1: -- code *c9D copy /b Ar080bpn.sfp lpt1: copy /b perm.pcl lpt1: -- code *c5F echo downloading Co060rpn Softfont copy /b font10.pcl lpt1: -- code *c10D copy /b Co060rpn.sfp lpt1: copy /b perm.pcl lpt1: -- code *c5F echo downloading He120bpn.sfp Softfont copy /b font11.pcl lpt1: -- code *c11D copy /b He120bpn.sfp lpt1: copy /b perm.pcl lpt1: -- code *c5F echo All Forms Downloaded Thanks |
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pbdev says...
I got some feedback from an HP rep. and he indicated that I use the DOS editor to create the ESC character. Does anyone know about how to do this? It's easy if your DOS editor has a "literal" character. WordStar-ish editors like the Borland programming editors use ^P that way. So, ^P followed by an Esc leaves just an Esc char in the file. Various editors, for example, Eric Meyer's VDE.COM cab do this. So can the old EDIT.COM editor that came with DOS. -- R. N. (Dick) Wisan - Email: - Snail: 37 Clinton Street, Oneonta NY 13820, U.S.A. - Just your opinion, please, ma'am: No fax. |
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Thanks for the replys,
OS - operating system was the problem. I was working on an XP PRO system - Did not work no matter what. I tried it on an WinNT 4.0 box and wha-la. It worked and worked consistenly and multiple times. I dont have to be concerned with the XP box and since it works on an WinNT box - Problem solved. If you find a solution for the XP box, I will give you 10 Points Thanks again for all your help. (Alan) wrote in message . com... (pbdev) wrote in message . com... I am trying to upload 3 fonts to a HP Laserjet 4100 and continue to have problems. I am using a .bat file to load the fonts. The problem I believe is that the printer is not reading the ESC character I have in my pcl files. I found this way: a tiny file called esc.com that outputs an escape character. Here it is encoded as I found it: ====== esc.com: sends an ESC (char 27) to std output, followed by its arguments. Useful for making PCL print commands. Use ESC % 1 B prn or ESC %0B prn. In Bat files one has to double percent signs (like ESC %% 1B prn) section 1 of uuencode 4.02 of file esc.com by R.E.M. begin 644 esc.com ILANT`LTA,F*#H``XQJ^@0#\LR"L/")U`X#S(#C8=`PK0"S2'B[,/B4 `` end sum -r/size 63004/84 section (from "begin" to "end") sum -r/size 41677/41 entire input file =====end -- copy the text between the == lines, save to a file "esc.uu" then decode -- Aladdin Expander works, probably Winzip. It should create "esc.com". Now you can use this to make batch files to send PCL. Eg: to send the PCL ESC&l1057.32259J to the printer, use the single-line batch: esc.com &l1057.32259Jprn |
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OS - operating system was the problem.
I was working on an XP PRO system - Did not work no matter what. I tried it on an WinNT 4.0 box and wha-la. It worked and worked consistenly and multiple times. I dont have to be concerned with the XP box and since it works on an WinNT box - Problem solved. If you find a solution for the XP box, I will give you 10 Points Thanks again for all your help. Dick Wisan wrote in message ... pbdev says... I got some feedback from an HP rep. and he indicated that I use the DOS editor to create the ESC character. Does anyone know about how to do this? It's easy if your DOS editor has a "literal" character. WordStar-ish editors like the Borland programming editors use ^P that way. So, ^P followed by an Esc leaves just an Esc char in the file. Various editors, for example, Eric Meyer's VDE.COM cab do this. So can the old EDIT.COM editor that came with DOS. |
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