Can I get a DeskJet 842C to sign a letter from filePro?

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 12:46:11PM -0700, Jim Asman wrote:
> > I have the rest of the week to figure this out, but with Jim Asman and
> > a couple others monitoring the list, I figured this would be the best
> > first place to ask.
> 
> Most deskjets speak PCL3, although, of late there are many that are
> windows only. But let's assume that the 842 is a PCL printer.
> 
> The theory would be that you set the foreground color to blue just
> before you print the sig and then back to black after it is printed.
> 
> Have a look at the printcode table for the hp-2250, where code numbers
> in the 80's enable color text. If you are lucky, the foreground color
> for text will come through for the bitmap. It will work on some 
> printers and not others.
> 
> There are special considerations on imaging a bitmap on a PCL3 printer.
> 
> Go to my website and download the manual for MKPCL. The read the last
> part about filepro and particularly the section on deskjet printers.

Roger wilco, Sergeant Bilko.  It seems to me as if, when I did the
other one, all those years ago, that I used MKPCL, but had to hand tune
it's output in vi to get it to behave on the HP 4000 I was printing
to; I no longer remember why.

I'll check it out.  Thanks.

Cheers,
-- jra
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