Print file to PCL

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Ken Brody propounded (on Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 11:31:23AM -0400):
| Enrique Arredondo wrote:
| [...]
| > 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.
| 
| Okay...
| 
| Let me rephrase your original question, and see if I understand it:
| 
|     How do I take a plain-text file, formatted at 66 lines per page, and
|     print it to an HP laser printer, which defaults to 60 lines per page?
| 
| If that's the case, then something like this would work:
| 
|     ( printf "escape_codes_to_set_66_line_mode" ; cat filename ) |
|         lp -dlaser -o raw
| 
| Use "\033" to represent ESCape in the printf line.

In the standard HP printer interface script from SCO, there's a note
about an "enhancement", and it tells you to uncomment seven lines in
order to fit 66 lines onto a standard 8.5 X 11 page.  So do that, and
then just print the text with no special flags.


-- 
JP