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The Question is:
I have some very specific text only (not Post-script) files that are only half
printed to a HP Laserjet5Si printer, before the printer suddenly starts
interpreting the job as postscript and then fails because, of course, the data
trying to be interpretted
as postscript simply isn't.
This does not occur on every file - about 1 in 10,000 perhaps, which happen to
contain many lines starting with a '%' character.
I can force a correct printout of such files by sending the escape codes to the
printer to force PCL rather than Postscript by adding them to the top and
bottom of the file (Esc%-12345X@PJL LANGUAGE = PCL and Esc%-12345X).
However, when I add these escape codes to the existing modules (including the
'RESET' module)in the system library the printer uses, they are ignored. I
have even enclosed these escape codes within a 'EscP' and 'Esc\' as otherwise
I have read that these
codes are interpretted 'incorrectly' by OpenVMS (being non-ANSI) leading to a
blank page before the print out starts.
We are using LAT as the network protocol for printing.
We have no requirement for Postscript printing from OpenVMS.
Is there any way I can successfully force these HP escape codes to the printer
to force non-Postscript mode using HP's escape codes with modules in a system
library?
Other such codes in these modules are interpretted correctly (e.g. portrait,
landscape etc).
Many thanks.
The Answer is :
This does not appear to be an OpenVMS problem, this appears specific
to the particular printer involved and its interpretation of the data
being received. Please contact the printer vendor for assistance and
configuration options, and for information on the current firmware
revision and for details of how the file format determination is
made (assuming the printer is attempting to sense the format).
If this is a problem with autosensing within the printer, you are
left to seek the assistance of the printer vendor, or send data that
will not trigger the Postscript interpreter, or to prefix the file with
text from (say) the device control library or with a request for the
standard print header text (and thus get text other than the existing
text containing the percent signs to the top of the file).
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