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

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:35:38PM -0700, Jim Asman wrote:
> > But all I get when I try to print those is a black box.  Looking at
> > them with vi, if I interpret the polarity of bits in a PCL image
> > correctly, that's what's *there*, and my intuition about how to
> > convince convert to get it right doesn't seem productive, obviously.
> > 
> > Jim?  How much is mkpcl?  :-)
> 
> The program is $75 US.
> 
> I downloaded the two files and WYSIWYG...
> 
> All raster rows are "FF's" or black in PCL along with the PCL header
> for each row.

Yeah, I assumed that was what those ASCII characters mapped to.

> I tried to get the .tif, but somehow quick-time was brought into
> the process, so I gave up.

Bummer.

> I would just work with the MKPCL demo until you can prove, in principle,
> that it is going to work. The other thing you could do is print through
> a windows printer driver to a file and cut out the part you need.

Hadn't thought about that.  I'll try mkpcl first.  I have done this
before, as noted; that file prints ok, just raw-dumped to my lj1100
here.

Cheers,
-- jra
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