Luca Ferrari said: > On Saturday 21 August 2004 14:01 Scott Taylor's cat walking on the > keyboard > wrote: I don't own a cat. >> Why didn't you say so in the first place? You can get that info from >> HP, or I could retype the HP PCL manual for you if you like. =P >> >> I've done it before and it is not nice, or even pretty. You need to >> send a few commands, a bitmap, and yet more commands. Sorry, I don't >> have the book with me at the moment, and I'm not really going to type >> those pages up for you. >> > > Well, an example will be really appreciated! Well, I'm back at the office today and found the book and it's even nastier then I remember. The last time I did something like this was over 8 years ago, and that company has since moved away from their legacy UNIX systems to *blah* some SAP thing and are totally Windoze now. No fun at all. >> I haven't looked much at it, but this site from a simple google search >> might help: http://plcguide.mrplc.com/index.html > > Uhm, I'm not an expert of PCL but this seems to be another thing, > different from the HP language for printers. You're right, sorry. Just google for "HP Printer Control Language" and get loads of pages. I'm not about to start reading them for you. > I've googled again and I haven't found anything about including images in > pcl prints, so if you have material please help me. Begging does not become a SysAdmin, hard work and research does. Nobody is an expert at anything until they figure it out for themselves, all anyone can offer you, at this point, is direction. I no longer posess living samples, it was way to long ago and I no longer need PCL for anything. I charge $100/hr for R&D and for this you would be looking at about 60 or so hours, if I remember how long it took last time. Not worth it I would say, much cheaper to have a print shop place the logo on a form for you, and you just continue to output the text you need. You really should contact HP, I'm sure they have PCL manuals available. What I have are old printer manuals, the PCL command syntax is there, but I wouldn't recommend trying to do anything more then changing fonts. Raster Graphics are a psychotic race. Have you tried capturing a PCL file of the graphics you want? That's how I got started the first time. Try installing print drivers in Windows for "HP LaserJet 4" and then printing the graphic to a file (instead of LPT1); there is your sample. Good luck. -- Scott - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-admin" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
