topic Re: Printer intailisation string in Operating System - HP-UX

Printer intailisation string

Managed Services — Mon, 09 Sep 2002 12:42:00 GMT

Hi, I am printing reports to a Lexmark Optra T614 and the pound sign is printing as the hash symbol. Does anyone know the initialisation string to enable this character. I would look in the manual only....I don't have one!!!
Any pointers would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.
C

Re: Printer intailisation string

Olav Baadsvik — Mon, 09 Sep 2002 12:53:31 GMT

Hi,

This may seem to be a probelm with 7/8 bit

The ascii-value for the poind sign is
163 (desimal)
In binary this is 10100011
If you have your setup for 7-bit the first
bit here will be lost leaving 100011
which in desimal is 35, the ascii-value for
hash.

Check the setup on your printer if it is
in 8-bit mode or not.

Olav

Re: Printer intailisation string

Rodney Hills — Mon, 09 Sep 2002 13:03:30 GMT

When you say pound, are you talking like England's monetary unit? If you are and the Lexmark is in PCL emulation, then you can send the following-

\033(1E

Which will set symbol set to ISO United Kingdom (which basically maps US hash character to print as British Pound).

Hope this helps...

-- Rod Hills

Re: Printer intailisation string

Managed Services — Mon, 09 Sep 2002 13:22:45 GMT

Rodney, many thanks. I added the sybmbol set setting to the insitialisation string which resulted in a pund sign being printed.
Many thanks once again.