This might be a bit more than you want, but in the long run, may solve your needs better.
What if you imbed you own psudocode, tag like into the text you want printed. (ie. <x=###,y=###,size=###,font=xxx>) then write a subroutine (once), that will convert your psudeocode to the specific printer's code. This way if later, you change printers to a different "language", all you will need to do is update the conversion subroutine, all the psudocode can remain the same. Again, initially, a LOT more work. George >-----Original Message----- >From: Karjala Koponen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 1:05 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Label printers on AIX and/or Solaris > > >Hello, > >I'm running UniData 5.2.15 on AIX 4.3.2 but will be going to >UniData 6.0.9 on Solaris 2.8. We have two stand alone Epson >LX300+ 9 pin dot matrix printers we use to print labels. They >are defined as generic (ASCII) devices. The printers are old >and the output is acceptable, at best. > >I'd like to replace the printers with label printers that will >print on peel off labels of roll stock. These printers >generally come with Windows drivers but Unix drivers seem to >be lacking. Some of the higher end printers come with a >programming manual that would allow me to write code to send >control sequences to the printer and control everything. I've >done that before but I'd rather not take the time to do that >if I can simply attach a printer, either to the network or a >serial connection, load a driver and create a queue, and then >simply send my few lines of text to the print queue and get a >label. Bar code would be nice but is not mandatory. > >I'm sure that we are just not looking in the right place or >closely enough. We are not printing high volumes of labels so >less expensive is better. Any suggestions? > >Thanks, Karjala >-- >u2-users mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users > -- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.oliver.com/mailman/listinfo/u2-users
