Please pardon my intrusion of a not-quite-entirely on-topic message.  Has
anyone on the list had experience with PJL, in specific, with the OPMSG
command?

I want to print special forms on my LaserJet 4 and I don't want to use forms
messages to do it.  I went looking through my PJL book and located what seemed
the thing.  The @PJL OPMSG DISPLAY = "Something" is supposed to turn the
printer offline and display Something on the display.  This it does--much too
well.  That is, the beginning of the job is fine.  I get the message, read
what forms need to be in, insert them and press online.  The job prints merrily
along until it reaches a point almost precisely 3 pages before the end of the
job.  It then deals with the OPMSG command for the next job, turning the
printer offline and displaying the message.  So I pull out these forms, put in
the next forms and voila, we have 3 pages of the old job printed on the new
form.  I have tried adding the UEL command in all kinds of amazing places, I
have tried using @PLJ JOB and @PJL EOJ pairs.  I have tried everything I can
think of and I can't get the printer to finish what it is doing before it pops
up that next message.

It isn't that it is just then receiving that command, as the same symptoms
occur whether I have just sent n different pages before the end of the job or
just one page and had in print n times.  Any assistance would be most
appreciated.

TIA,
Ted
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