Greetings: A neighbour gave me a HP LaserJet 4L printer and an extra toner cart.. Heretofore I've had nothing but impact printers, not knowing what I was going to get into with this machine.. (I've been helping him with some hardware problems.) It does work sending plain text to the machine as long as I use 'todos' to add the required carriage return.. However, I thought I'd hit the Web and get the proper __escape__ commands... Wow!!! That word isn't even used anymore it seems.. A2PS, Enscript, PPD files, Foomatic, etc; all I want or need to do is set the margins, font pitch and font type.. I see nothing listed, so far, that addresses such "simple" things.. The machine uses the PCL5E command set but, apparently, this is not the same animal as the old escape codes.. No actual manual available; of course. :^(.. Will my learning curve ever flatten?? TIA and appreciate any suggestions or comments.. -- Hal - in Terra Alta, WV/US - Slackware GNU/Linux 10.1 (2.4.29) . - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs