Re: "Modern" Printers??

[Carl <carl@anexia.co.uk>]

At 20:16 23/06/2006, Hal MacArgle wrote:


>Greetings: A neighbour gave me a HP LaserJet 4L printer and an extra
>toner cart.. Heretofore I've had nothing but impact printers, not
>knowing what I was going to get into with this machine.. (I've been
>helping him with some hardware problems.)
>
>It does work sending plain text to the machine as long as I use
>'todos' to add the required carriage return.. However, I thought I'd
>hit the Web and get the proper __escape__ commands... Wow!!! That
>word isn't even used anymore it seems..
>
>A2PS, Enscript, PPD files, Foomatic, etc; all I want or need to do is
>set the margins, font pitch and font type.. I see nothing listed, so
>far, that addresses such "simple" things..
>
>The machine uses the PCL5E command set but, apparently, this is not
>the same animal as the old escape codes.. No actual manual available;
>of course. :^(..
>
>Will my learning curve ever flatten?? TIA and appreciate any
>suggestions or comments..
>
>--


You'll want to look at http://hplip.sourceforge.net/

--
Carl 

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