The printer is not including a carriage return at the end on the line. Set up a Linux script like the following: #!/bin/bash # # Include a carriage return at the end of a line of text before printing. # Cat - | sed 's/$/^013/' | lp -d printername -o nobanner
The ^013 is the carriage return character. After creating the script make sure it is executable by everyone that will use it. Then put its pathname in the driver location of the device. Jerry Banker Senior Programmer Analyst IBM Certified Solutions Expert -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Taylor Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 12:46 AM To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org Subject: [U2] Problem Printing PCL ESC Sequences to a RHEL Printer from Universe I have installed UV PE 10.2.7 on RHEL 5.1 Desktop and want to send PCL ESC sequences to a printer to configure the printer before I send print jobs to that printer. The HP LaserJet printer driver will not pass ESC sequences thru to the printer (as it won't on Windows). 1. I created a "raw" printer pointing to the HP LaserJet printer on LPT#1 using the raw printer driver in RHEL. 2. I added a raw printer driver to /usr/spool/uv and installed this raw printer in Universe with a CR Mode = Convert CR to CR/LF and the FF Delay = 2, and verified this setting in the sp.config file in /usr/spool/uv. I can print to this "raw" printer. However, the first line of the first print job after resetting the printer starts at the left edge of the paper, but each subsequent line starts one line down and on the next character position after the last character in the line above it, like there is a LF at the end of each line but no CR to reposition the cursor to the beginning of the next line. The first line of the following print job even starts one position to the right of the last character in the last line of the previous print job, so the printer cursor position is not even being reset at the end of the print job. 3. The FF Delay in the TERM statement = 2. 4. I added the l.len and p.len and FMT option to the SETPTR command and nothing changed. 4. I attempted to use UniAdmin from a Windows client to define the printer but got the msg "No RPC Connection Active." So, I tried to start UniRPC under the Universe Package menu on RHEL and it would not start, with a msg "one or more of the required files either did not exist or was corrupt", but they all existed. At this point, I don't know if there's something wrong with the raw printer driver in RHEL or with the Universe printer definition process or the ability of Universe to interpret it. I haven't figured out how to print a print job to a RHEL file outside of Universe so I can examine it to see if there are any CRs with LFs at the end of each print line. Any suggestions will be deeply appreciated. tia, Dave Dave Taylor Sysmark Information Systems, Inc. Authorized IBM Business Partner 49 Aspen Way Rolling Hills Estates, CA 90274 (O) 800-SYSMARK (800-797-6275) (F) 310-377-3550 (C) 310-561-5200 www.sysmarkinfo.com ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
