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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[-- Attachment #1 --] 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. Annelise [-- Attachment #2 --] "These are PCL codes; to print this file replace what looks like ^[ "but is really decimal 027 with <esc>. The six Ctrl-V's preceeding "the <esc> with which the printer control codes begin are necessary "for vi to get the codes into the file. " "reset printer, convert \n to carriage return-line feed ab bgn E&k3G "bold ab bld (s3B "eject page ab ej &l0H "reset printer (use at end of file) ab nd E "insert footnote code (superscript 50/720 of an inch) ab fn &a-50VFN#&a+50V "italic ab itl (s1S "landscape mode (resets printer) ab lnd &l1O "set left margin (here, to 8 columns) ab lft &a8L "set lines per inch--vertical motion index is better ab lpi &l3D "turn off bold ab nbld (s0B "turn off italic ab nitl (s0S "turn off underlining ab nndr &d@ "print portrait mode (the default) ab prt &l0O "underline ab ndr &d0D "upright (same as turning off italic) ab uprt (s0S "set vertical motion index--48 units in an inch ab vmi &l16C "fonts built in to Laserjet IV ab albertusextrabold (s1p12v0s4b4362T ab albertusmed (s1p12v0s1b4362T ab antiqueoliveitalic (s1p12v1s0b4168T ab antiqueolive (s1p12v0s0b4168T ab antiqueolivebold (s1p12v0s3b4168T ab arialbold (s1p12v0s3b16602T ab arialboldital (s1p12v1s3b16602T ab arialital (s1p12v1s0b16602T ab cgtimes (s1p12v0s0b4101T ab cgtimesbold (s1p12v0s3b4101T ab cgtimesboldital (s1p12v1s3b4101T ab cgtimesital (s1p12v1s0b4101T ab clarendoncond (s1p12v4s3b4140T ab coronet (s1p12v1s0b4116T "courier regular, bold, italic, bold italic (fully scalable, fixed width) ab cour (s0p10h0s0b4099T ab courb (s0p10h0s1b4099T ab courbi (s0p10h1s3b4099T ab couri (s0p10h1s0b4099T " garamond, garamond halbfett, garamond kursiv, g.k.halbfett ab ga (s1p12v0s0b4197T ab gh (s1p12v0s3b4197T ab gk (s1p12v1s0b4197T ab gkh (s1p12v1s3b4197T ab lettergothic (s0p10h0s0b4102T ab lettergothicbold (s0p10h0s1b4102T ab lettergothicital (s0p10h1s0b4102T ab lineprinter (s0p16.67h8.5v0s0b0T ab marigold (s1p12v0s0b4297T ab omega (s1p12v0s0b4113T ab omegabold (s1p12v0s3b4113T ab omegaboldital (s1p12v1s3b4113T ab omegaital (s1p12v1s0b4113T ab symbol (19M(s1p12v0s0b16686T "in case you need to return to Roman 8 set of symbols ab symbolset (8U ab timesnew (s1p12v0s0b16901T ab timesnewbold (s1p12v0s3b16901T ab timesnewboldital (s1p12v1s1b16901T ab timesnewital (s1p12v1s0b16901T ab univers (s1p12v0s0b4148T ab universbold (s1p12v0s3b4148T ab universboldcond (s1p12v4s3b4148T ab universboldital (s1p12v1s3b4148T ab universbolditalcond (s1p12v5s3b4148T ab universcond (s1p12v4s0b4148T ab universital (s1p12v1s0b4148T ab universitalcond (s1p12v5s0b4148T ab wingdings (579Ls1p12v0s0b31402T " times roman and helvetica: Laserjet F cartridge ab tr (s1p10v0s0b5T ab trb (s1p10v0s3b5T ab tri (s1p10v1s0b5T ab helv (s1p14v0s3b5T
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