Print file to PCL

[Enrique Arredondo]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth Brody" <kenbrody at bestweb.net>
To: "Enrique Arredondo" <henry at vegena.net>
Cc: <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Monday, April 19, 2004 5:24 PM
Subject: Re: Print file to PCL


> Enrique Arredondo wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > Is there a way of transforming a filepro ASCII report into a report that
> > would print with the following command " lp -c -dlaser -o raw file.txt"
?
> >
> > The only difference within filepro is print code 56 at 1,1 (HP laser
> > codes). So How to prepend that code into the ascii file so "-o raw"
would
> > take it and print it on the laser printer with no problem ?
>
> What doesn't work when you simply set the printer type to one of the
> HP-* types, and the destination to your above command?
>
> -- 

The thing is that the ASCII report prints already on a dot matrix printer
with preprinted forms, and it's so complex, it updates so many flags , it
updates so many files with YTD amounts,etc. That's it's quite impossible to
re run it with the HP laser print codes. So once I have the report in ASCII
I want to print it on a HP laser plain paper printer. But the only way of
making it fit is by adding that code to fit on a 60 lines per page printer a
66 line report.