RE: LPRng: Re: AW: LPRng with HP8550DN (Totally Insane Thing)

[Micheler Klaus (MDCA Villach)]

Hi Jim!

Thank you for your help.

You were right, it was the ^D, which confuses the HP8550DN and
made it to print the "mediatypeselection - code" as text on a separate page
of paper.

After removing the ^D, all works, as it should.

On a HP4500 the mediatype result was correct for both cases (^D in the file,
no ^D in the File).
It looks like only the HP CLJ8550 has this problem.

Is there a simple way with ifhp to remove the ^D before the
"%!-Start of Postscript Flag" from the PS-Code?

regards, 
Klaus Micheler

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Easton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Mittwoch, 21. Juni 2000 00:53
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: Jim Easton
Subject: Re: LPRng: Re: AW: LPRng with HP8550DN (Totally Insane Thing)


> I need help with this one.  If anybody has an HP8550,
> could you please confirm that the PostScript commands
> need to come AFTER the %! stuff?
> 
> And can anybody figure out why?

I must confess I couldn't quite figure out what exactly
what KLaus Micheler was saying but here's a thought.

The %! is the "start of the postscript" flag.  It is what
defines the beginning of a postscript program.

Furthermore since the book specifies that %! must be the first
two characters of a postscript program implies, to me at least,
that it must be the first two characters of a new line.  So
saying I suspect the printer didn't see it because of the ^D
and therefore either flushed or printed the lines as text up to
the %!PS-Adobe-2.0.

I would suggest: try deleting the ^D and see if it works.

        Jim

> > From: "Micheler Klaus (MDCA Villach)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: "'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: AW: LPRng with HP8550DN
> > Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2000 10:44:53 +0200
> >
> > ^[%-12345X@PJL
> > @PJL JOB NAME = "PID 20676" DISPLAY = "????"
> > @PJL RDYMSG DISPLAY = "PID 2067"
> > @PJL USTATUSOFF
> > @PJL USTATUS JOB = ON
> > @PJL USTATUS DEVICE = ON
> > @PJL USTATUS PAGE = ON
> > @PJL USTATUS TIMED = 10
> > @PJL SET MEDIATYPE = TRANSPARENCY
> > @PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = POSTSCRIPT
> > ^D%!
> > <</MediaType (Transparency)>> setpagedevice ### klmi: on this position
it
> > does not work
> > %!PS-Adobe-2.0
> > %%Version: 3.15
> > %%DocumentFonts: (atend)
> > %%Pages: (atend)
> > %%EndComments
> > % @(#)postprint.ps      1.31 1/10/94
> > %ident  "@(#)lp:filter/postscript/postscript/postprint.ps       1.1"
> > %
> > % Version 3.15 prologue for ASCII files.
> > %
> > % <</MediaType (Transparency)>> setpagedevice ### klmi: on this position
it
> > works
> > /noheader true def
> >
> >
> > In the original ifhp.conf file ther is no a3 paper selection for that
> > printer.
> > According to the ppd, this is the right entry.
> > ps_a3 = <</DeferredMediaSelection true /PageSize [842 1191] /ImagingBBox
> > null>> setpagedevice
> >
> >
> > Thanks in advance,
> >   KLaus Micheler
> >
> >
> > phone number and Adress is:
> >
> > ###################################################
> > # Klaus Micheler, CAD
> > # Infineon Technologies (formerly Siemens EZM)
> > # Microelectronic Design Centers Austria GmbH
> > # Design Center Villach 
> > # Siemensstr. 2, A-9500 Villach   
> > # Tel. +43 4242 / 305 - 6201
> > # Fax. +43 4242 / 305 - 6389                           
> > # mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > ###################################################

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