Yours is probably official, mine I hacked a long time ago by looking at
the computer section in a Thomas Glover manual.  I originally put the
string on an MPE/V machine.

Tracy Johnson
Business Analyst
Measurement Specialties, Inc.
1000 Lucas Way
Hampton, VA 23666
Office 1-757-766-4318
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www.meas-spec.com
 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Gordon Montgomery
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 4:12 PM
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> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] MPE/iX Native spooler
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Johnson, Tracy" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 9:02 AM
> Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] MPE/iX Native spooler
> 
> 
> Actually no, landscape is not necessarily a default, if the printer
> config just happens to match, then no one notices.  If your 
> laser is set
> up to be 80 column, courier, portrait, then 132 columns from 
> the HP will
> look messed up.
> 
> You can force it one of two ways:
> 
> 1.  You can configure the printer locally, either from the keypad or a
> PC and saving landscape 132 with a monospaced font as the default.
> 
> 2.  You can tell the HP3000 to send an escape string every 
> time.  I use
> that method, because I have no control what users do at the 
> local level.
> They're fickle that way.
> 
> HOW TO DO METHOD 2:
> 
> On the HP3000, create a one line text file with the below 
> string, change
> every instance of ESC  below to the 'ESCAPE' CHARACTER and REMOVE ALL
> SPACES:
> 
> ESC &l1OESC&k2s9H ESC &l1L ESC &l5.45C ESC &a4L ESC &l6E ESC &l60F ESC
> &a0R
> 
> That tells it to do landscape, use a small size monospaced 
> font 60 lines
> on a page, etc.
> 
> KEEP the file somewhere, make sure it is readable by anyone, 
> by putting
> it in the appropriate group or RELEASING it.  (Not recommended to
> RELEASE it, as anyone can PURGE it.)  I put mine in the HPENV group of
> the SYS account.
> 
> Then, in your NPCONFIG FILE modify your LDEV to include that as a
> SETUP_FILE=
> 
> 17      (network_address = 10.0.2.74
> setup_file=myfile.mygroup.myaccount)
> 
> Or you can put it in the global section, although I've never 
> tried that.
> 
> Tracy Johnson
> Business Analyst
> Measurement Specialties, Inc.
> 1000 Lucas Way
> Hampton, VA 23666
> Office 1-757-766-4318
> [log in to unmask]
> www.meas-spec.com
>  
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> 
> Well, actually from all my reading last night and quite a few 
> test runs where
> I captured the packets going to the printer, it looks like at 
> least on 7.0, the
> default is landscape, 132 columns. That was what my confusion 
> was stemming
> from. Our printers are set ( from the printers own touch 
> panel ) to default to 
> portrait, 80 columns. As far as I can tell the actual string 
> that the spooler 
> prepends to the spool file is:
> 
> [Esc]Z[Esc]E[Esc]&l1X[Esc]&l-22.50u-33.75Z[Esc]&l1O[Esc]&l2A[E
sc]&l6.18C[Esc]&l3E[Esc]&l60F
> [Esc]&a2L[Esc]&l1L[Esc]&k2G[Esc](8U[Esc](s0P[Esc](s13H[Esc](s0
> S[Esc](s0B[Esc](s4099T
> 
> I haven't looked up all the codes, but I know that this 
> overides the printer's 
> default of portrait with landscape.
> 
> Thanks for all the input.
> 
> Gordon
> 
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