This is to share my experience with printer-stored forms and network printers.

A form loaded as a macro worked fine with a serial printer, but seemed some
escape sequences got lost or corrupted when form and data were sent to a
network printer. The printer also decided to forget it was set to portrait
orientation.

The macro used with the serial printer was built as follows:

          ESC&f#Y  (to establish the Macro ID nr)
          ESC&f0X  (Start macro definiton)
            .
            .
            .
          ESC&f1X  (Stop macro definition)

To solve the problem and have a macro good for serial and network printers
we added 3 escape sequences:

          ESC&f#Y  (to establish the macro ID nr)
          ESC&f8X   <--   (ADD this to delete macro w/same ID, previously
                           loaded)
          ESC&f0X  (Start macro definiton)
          ESC&l0O   <--   (ADD this to force portrait orientarion)
            .
            .
            .
          ESC&f1X  (Stop macro definition)
          ESC&f10X  <--   (ADD this to make macro permanent)


Guillermo Rodriguez
Hewlett Packard Argentina