PCL 3/5 printer died; did I slit my throat?

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

I was in the midst of printing 1099 forms from my OSR6 server, using
filePro output involving some subtle PCL3 coding (courtesy of Jim
Asman) to make the printed text properly nestle in the boxes of the
IRS-designed forms one obtains from any stationer.

Of a sudden, my HP OfficeJet quit, popped, turned off, dropped dead.

I surprised myself with what then ensued. I used the 'pcl6' program to
convert filePro's PCL3 output to a PDF file. I dispatched that PDF to
my wife's Brother MFC J625DW (Windoze only) printer.  All the text was
placed in the boxes of the 1099 forms just as precisely as it used to be
on the OfficeJet.

-- 
JP