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Subject: Re: Printing to a Xerox Document Centre 332 (escape seq.)
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Bob Collins wrote:
> We have a Xerox Document Centre 332 on our network. LPD is running on
> it. I can send print jobs to it from the FBSD boxes, however I get the
> staircase effect. I cannot find at Xerox, nor Googling the escape
> sequence required to curtail the staircase effects.
> 
> Has anyone figured this out? And if so, would you be willing to share
> the codes?

I don't know the escape codes for this printer, but you can work around
this by installing a filter on LPD that converts newlines to LFCR.

There's got to be 1000 howtos on the 'net on how to do this:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing-intro-setup.html#PRINTING-TEXTFILTER

You might also just install magicfilter or apsfilter.

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Bill Moran
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