Quiz 8.4G (Windows) and network printing - LaserJet escape sequences being ignored

[Michel Adam]

And that was the solution!  I barked up a couple of wrong trees with
installing other spoolers, and trying to use various combination of raw
printing setup, to no avail.  But the plain old 'print' command in a dos
window did exactly what I needed.

Since we will not have more than two users, and they will be using the same
networked printer, this will simplify things considerably.

Funny that there are no equivalent to the dos PRINT command that simply send
the output to the printer 'unmolested'.

One of our other department has been using ROC Software's spooler, but they
have a geographically dispersed user base. I'm glad I can avoid this cost.
DOS print it is...

Thanks for all the suggestions, Charles & Ken. I especially like the
'genericity' of Ken's setup.

Michel



On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 4:55 AM, Jeff Hoffman <wonicon at optusnet.com.au>wrote:

> Hi
>
> Under windows you will have to output a file then use the DOS print
> command.
>
> Have fun
>
> Jeff
>
>
> At 11:16 AM 17/02/2011, you wrote:
>
>  Hi all,
>
> can anyone provide an idea of the magic incantation/settings to have a
> LaserJet 4250 recognize the escape sequences sent to it to select fonts and
> so on? With the MPE version, users were printing via Minisoft and it all
> worked, but trying to port this to Windows, the printer simply disreguard
> the escape character.
>
> The initial heading line show up on the first page, instead of being acted
> upon.
>
> The printer is networked via standard Microsoft Windows print server.
>
> It is probably something real simple, but what?
>
> Thanks
>
>
> Michel Adam
>
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