Al,

I think Michael Marxmeier has it about right in his post re. your
alternative solutions.  If the old PCL3 printer will accept soft font
downloads (I am not certain that it will), then you could use the same
solution for both printers.  Downloading a barcode font is quick and
pretty easy; the fonts are compressed to about 3K to 4K, so there
isn't much of a traffic problem.

You can download a sample PCL Code 39 font from our site to see if the
concept will work for you:
http://www.makebarcode.com/software/fonts.html#PCL5

Bob Lounsbury
The Barcode Software Center
www.makebarcode.com

"Karman, Al" <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message news:<[log in to unmask]>...
> Greetings, phonetically-challenged members of the -L....
>
> Today, antiques.  My client has an HP2934A printer attached via DTC to my
> 937/LX running MPE/iX 6.0.0.
>
> The printer starts/stops at will, :SPIFF shows 2x spoofles active,
> :SYSDIAG/TERMDSM/DTC/RESET is the <only> way I've been able to shake the
> port loose.
>
> Problem - this prints some PCL-massaged data (bar code) to the printer (%33&
> is wrapped around printlines).
>
> The alternate site printer is a Ljet4050, and it doesn't print the bar code
> data.
>
> Question....surfin' leads me to the 2934A being a 'PCL 3' printer and the
> 4050 being a Postscript printer.  Is there a suggestion out there as to what
> <laser> printer 'speaks' PCL 3?
>
> Syntactically yours in /iX,
> Al Karman
> IT Consultant
> USFreightways
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