Dave: As I noted earlier, I assign the PCL5 (usually) print driver to the network printers I hook up. In wIntegrate and AccuTerm I define slave printing as raw.
I wonder what I'm missing here? :-( Bill >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dave Taylor >Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 5:07 PM >To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org >Subject: Re: [U2] HP Laserjets and AIX/Unix > >Bob, > >In Universe on Windows, there is no Universe spooler. > >You print directly to a Windows printer. > >If you want to pass PCL commands to that printer, you have to assign it the >Generic/Text 0nly driver from the Windows Generic mfg. > >I guess I don't know what you mean by "spooler mode" and I've never heard of >Windows commands like "StartDocPrinter, WritePrinter, EndDocPrinter" so I'm >not familiar with how they work. > >Are they Windows commands? > >Or, Universe commands? > >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 >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Bob Rasmussen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: <u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org> >Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 4:01 PM >Subject: RE: [U2] HP Laserjets and AIX/Unix > > >> On Wed, 4 Jun 2008, Dave Taylor wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Bob, >>> >>> You stated below that "In this approach (spooler mode), it generally >>> doesn't >>> matter WHAT kind of printer driver is used. What's important is that the >>> printer understand what you're sending it." >>> >>> Actually, it *does* matter what kind of printer driver you use because if >>> you >>> use the printer mfg's driver it will *not* pass the PCL commands thru to >>> the >>> printer. >>> >>> In Windows, you must use the Generic Text/Only driver from the Generic >>> printer >>> mfg if you want the PCL commands passed thru to the printer. Plus you >>> must >>> choose the WinPrint Print Processor and the Raw Data Type. >> >> The key difference between your set of conditions and mine is this: I am >> referring to printing in "spooler mode". At the Windows API level, this >> means StartDocPrinter, WritePrinter, EndDocPrinter. (High level printing >> in Windows involves doing TextOut or similar commands.) >> >> I don't know what level Universe and/or Unidata uses for its printing; it >> would be helpful to know. One way to test would be to use a non-Generic >> driver, and set it to "print to file", then send me the file. >> >>> >>> In Linux, you must also use the Text-Only driver and you must reconvert >>> each >>> LF to a CR/LF because Linux strips off the CR from each CR/LF. >> >> I'm not addressing Linux at all. >> >> >> Regards, >> ....Bob Rasmussen, President, Rasmussen Software, Inc. >> >> personal e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> company e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> voice: (US) 503-624-0360 (9:00-6:00 Pacific Time) >> fax: (US) 503-624-0760 >> web: http://www.anzio.com >> street address: Rasmussen Software, Inc. >> 10240 SW Nimbus, Suite L9 >> Portland, OR 97223 USA >> ------- >> 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/ ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
