Re: Font question


Are you opening the printer directly as /dev/whatever or are you
sending the output via lpr? If you are using lpr then there are
probably switches you can use to specify the font to be used for pain
text.

I don't know which of the many lpr implementations available on Linux
Fedora will install by default.

I'm opening the printer by using lpr.


If you are talking direct to /dev/whatever (or using lpr in raw mode)
I don't think there are any PCL modules as such in Perl but there's
nothing stopping you looking up the escape sequence in a PCL manual
and manually doing print("\e(s4099T") [1].

I found some escape-sequences in a PCL manual, but I found out that was the wrong PCL version so that didn't work.


[1] That's untested. I just did a quick Google and glanced at the
following HP manuals:

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/bpl13210/bpl13210.pdf
http://lprng.sourceforge.net/DISTRIB/RESOURCES/DOCS/pcl5comp.pdf



Thanks for the links. I'll try the manual print....
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