Date: Sat, 21 Jun 1997 20:02:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.ORG> Cc: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Documentation on HP Laserjet 6MP? Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970621194635.15538A-200000@andrsn.stanford.edu> In-Reply-To: <199706200522.NAA00979@papillon.lemis.com>
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This message is in MIME format. The first part should be readable text, while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools. Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info. --0-1821460756-866948579=:15538 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII On Fri, 20 Jun 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > 1. How to upgrade the configuration on the machine to always > interpret \n to return to the beginning of the line (i.e. no 'step > effect')? I don't know if it's possible to reset a Laserjet VI permanently-- I send my Laserjet IV an <esc>E to reset the printer and an <esc>&k3G to convert unix line endings to carriage return-line feed. The <esc> here is a real 027, entered with Ctrl-V<esc> in vi. > 2. The commands that this particular printer understands. HP seems to be sending out less and less documentation; they want you to buy the Technical Reference Manual. The last tech-ref manual I have is for a III, but my Laserjet IV user's manual has a list of PCL codes etc. While HP adds to these, I don't believe they change from printer to printer. And there are a lot of them. I will attach to this the vi .exrc file I use (not fully tested, by the way); it includes the codes I find useful to insert directly into documents done with a text editor, such as printer reset, line-ending conversion, left margin, bold, italic, underline, portrait, landscape, and a few others. The assumption is that software programs take care of sending the appropriate codes to the printer most of the time. It also includes the font codes for the 45 or so internal fonts for the Laserjet IV. Later Laserjets have more internal fonts. As you will see I haven't finished making up some reasonable abbreviations for these font codes. On most Laserjets (at least IIs, IIIs, and IVs) you can get a printout of the internal fonts along with their codes (and the codes for different symbol sets) by pressing some buttons on the printer's panel. I have a couple of awk scripts that know how to handle PCL code in a text file--they adjust characters per line as a function of the size and average width of the font used, paginate, do footnotes, and a few other things. If you would like a copy of these let me know. 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