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

[Michel Adam]

Hi Markus,

I had not noticed that Ken's reply was directly to me, and not to the list.
Ken, may I repost to the list your reply?

Michel

On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Markus Grossrieder <
markus.grossrieder at tele2.ch> wrote:

> Hi Michel,
>
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions, Charles & Ken. I especially like the
>> 'genericity' of Ken's setup.
>>
>
> Care to share those?
> Maybe there is something wrong with me e-mail, but apart from Jeffs
> response I didn't get anything else.
>
> Regards, Markus
>
> ----- Original Message ----- From: Michel Adam
> To: power-l
> Sent: Saturday, February 19, 2011 12:48 AM
> Subject: Re: Quiz 8.4G (Windows) and network printing - LaserJet
> escapesequences being ignored
>
>
>
> 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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