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Is anyone using Printronix label printers LAN connected for the exclusive purpose of printing pre-formatted labels?

We have beat this problem to death, IBM is out of ideas (up to "You can pay for a consultant.")

Problem is that IBM i (5.4) is sending an occasional '0C' (feed character.) When that is in the middle of the label command language stream it's fine because the printer's control process ignores it. However when it happens to be in the ASCII bits between labels where the 'EXECUTE FORM' is sent, then it causes that row of labels to print Twice!

Attempting to use a WSCST object to replace the 0C with nothing (i.e. DATA = ''X) fails because ''X and '00'X work out to the same thing. So the 00 appears instead of the 0C and that sends the printer wacko and it prints errors instead of labels.

I tried to be cute by replacing the 0C with a 0A because the 0C was overlaying 0A. Worked for printing BUT the system always sends an 0C at the end of the print file so now it sends 0A and that wacks the alignment by one line for each label job.

SOMEBODY has to be using these printers??? Thoughts?

- Larry "DrFranken" Bolhuis.


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