Hi,
I work at home. One computer (Linux Mint Qiana), one printer (Lexmark
E230), connected by USB cable.
Ever since installing Mint, I've had to cold-cycle my printer between
every print job. Otherwise, subsequent print outs are not the intended
document, but rather a string of random characters and form-feeds,
starting with "PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = PCLXL) HP-PCL XL;1;1"
Have asked in the past for fixes here at LUV, on Mint & Ubuntu forums
and on CUPS & Linux printer forums. Nothing effective as a response.
So... I think that just shooting Esc E (27 69 in decimal, or 1b 45 in
hex) at the printer between each job =might= kludge a fix.
(Unfortunately, I can't make CUPS use a 2-byte binary file as the
entirety of a header or footer banner. So that approach won't work.)
Creating the 2-byte file would be easy enough: Some hex editor.
And I vaguely recall how I'd do it in MSDOS: Create a batch file that
contains the line...
copy resetprn.txt lpt1:
But I'm not sure how to ...
1. - identify my printer (as a target) within the Linux filesystem
2. - make a similar shell script into an executable icon on my desktop
Any hints would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Carl
Bayswater, Vic
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