Subject: Re: Problems printing to a HP LaserJet
To: Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com>
From: Knut A. Syed <Knut.Syed@nhh.no>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/18/1998 12:16:17
Don Lewis <Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com> writes:
> On Jun 18, 9:44am, Peter Bentley wrote:
> } Looks to me like a banner page (think "banner knut") but with no
> } carriage returns, just linefeeds.
Off course! Why didn't I think of it? (The output was not a function
of the input, and I could not see why. It was always the letters
k n t.... and I could not see that the printer was trying to spell my
name.)
> I don't recommend doing this since it will corrupt binary data if
> you are printing PCL graphics.
>
> I did find one typo in the printcap stuff in my last message.
> } ff=\EE\E&12a0o7.27C\E(s0p12h3T\E&k2G:fo:tr=\EE
> This should be
> ff=\EE\E&l2a0o7.27C\E(s0p12h3T\E&k2G:fo:tr=\EE
> ^ the letter l, not the digit 1
> I think the \E&k2G string is the correct incantation to tell the printer
> to interpret a LF character as a CR+LF. The 'fo' flag is important.
> Without it, the the first file printed by "lpr file1 file2 file3" will
> be corrupted, but the others will be correct.
I will be trying this tonight.
Thanks to both of you!
~kas