On Fri, 29 Jun 2001, Ken Ambrose wrote:
> While I rarely agree with JP, this is one case where I will. One thing
> that I used to love were the manuals that came with your printer: every
> escape sequence, every attribute, every everything. Nowadays? Nope.
No kidding. I actually prefer electronic documentation; it is easier to
search, takes up less space, and saves trees. But there is a big difference
between electronic docs and *no* docs.
> I want (for example) the escape sequence to enable duplex printing on my
> HP 970CSE. I've e-mailed HP, I've spoken with techs, I've begged and
> pleaded, I've offered to pay honest-to-God MONEY.
You need to buy the HP PCL reference manual. It was PCL 5 at my last job,
and consisted of a two-inch thick reference tome and a smaller guide. I
believe they are up to PCL 6 now, and the format may be different.
> I actually took a dump of Windows printing a two-line ASCII E-mail, in
> duplex mode, and it was something like 40 KILOBYTES of initialization
> strings and the like ...
Most likely, it was either a pre-rasterized image of the printed page, or
contained a bunch of font downloads.
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