Re: Laser Printer commands in APFDS print file -- MIDRANGE-L

I'm not sure the ASCII transparency character works with AFPDS, but itmight be worth a try.

The ASCII transparency code (Hex 03) allows you to send a string ofascii control characters to the printer.

The syntax is hex 03 followed by the hex value for the number ofcharacters you are going to send followed

by the escape sequence in hex.

For example, to send an ESC H] sequence, insert the character stringX'03031B485D' into your print text.



Jeff Young wrote:

The printer is actualy a CANNON copier that also functions as a LAN printer.
Since my printer file has an overlay attached, and the device type is *AFPDS, 
if I embed an escape sequence in hex in the data stream, I think that the spool 
processing will convert it and pass it as data.
If this is not correct, how does it know to translate the data to ASCII for the 
printer?

Thanks,Jeff Young

----- Original Message ----

From: Richard Casey <casey_r@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 3:56:40 PM
Subject: RE: Laser Printer commands in APFDS print file

Jeff,

What kind of printer are you using? You can send an escape sequence to the
printer to activate any printer-specific features. Just assemble the
necessary characters (use hex to get the escape character in there) into a
string and write that string to the printer.

Richard

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jeff Young
Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2006 3:28 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx; rpg400-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Laser Printer commands in APFDS print file

Is there any way to insert native printer commands into a print stream for a
printer file using APFDS?
I have a print file that uses an overlay on the System i to print forms.
I would like to be able to print multiple copies and have them collated by
the printer when they are printed.  Normal System i printing support does
not allow this, but the printer does support the function.
The customer is running V5R1M0.

Thanks,

Jeff Young

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