Printer intailisation string

[Managed Services]

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

[Olav Baadsvik]

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

[Rodney Hills · Accepted solution]

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

[Managed Services]

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.