According to Leibovitch Moshe:
>
> Hi,
>
> I got many answers, tryied all of them, and none of them worked. It might
> be that the file i am trying to print is a bytestream file. The closest i
> got to the real thing was by using the cp command under the posix shell.
> only ONE pixel line was corrupted (close but no cigar). The reason Jim
> Wowchuck couldnt use the cp command was that his file was not bytestream.
> The cat command is treating the file as record structured (on the
> reasonable assumption that if you want to see it, it is probably text).
>
> I also tryed opening the print device using HPFOPEN either as a formal
> designator to a printer or directly the device. on both ways the
> operating system created a file that had varibale length records (it
> ignored my record type item).
>
 
The variable record structure is not the problem. The problem is carriage
control that is automatically added (normally) when writing to the spooler.
As others have said, you need a copy program that explictly turns off the
carriage control.
 
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