Re: Sending ESC codes to a HP5 printer -- MIDRANGE-L

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At 09:14 PM 1/27/98 -0500, Carl Galgano wrote:
>Does anyone have any experience sending ESC codes to a HP5 (PLC5) printer
>to select a bin.  I need to know how to do this in RPG.  I know what the
>esc seq should be, just don't know exactly how to send it to the printer.

Carl,

Use the TRNSPY and CVTDTA DDS keyword and send the command as a hex text 
representation of the PCL command. The output queue must use host print 
transform. I've got a couple of projects documented on my web site that 
demonstrate one way to do it.

Pete


Pete Hall
peteh@inwave.com 
http://www.inwave.com/~peteh/

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