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It seems to be not that easy to write a program with Visual Basic that could be distributed easy with the built in "Package und Deployment Kit". After a short search in the internet I decided to write the program without the need for mswinsck.ocx and now it should also run without installer. You... -
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I've created an installer package to solve this, but I'm afraid that the installer will be in german language. You could try to install it: http://home.arcor.de/Oberchefe/readpjl.zip -
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and for all of the others with similar problems I've written a small tool(quick and dirty) to get this data from a network printer.http://home.arcor.de/Oberchefe/readpjl.exe -
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Thanks for your help, the problem is solved now. The printer was set up to "Economo Mode" (default). Now I know a little bit more about PJL. Sending "@PJL INFO VARIABLES" to a printer results in an answer about the supported parameters and the current default settings. I've added @PJL SET... -
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>>Don't know what a PLC is. Sorry, it's a programmable logic controller, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmable_logic_controller >>A full PCL5 font selection sequence includes up to 7 >>attributes, of which stroke weight is merely one. -Symbol Set: ISO 8859-15 -Spacing: proportional... -
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Thanks for your answer. In the meantime I have added a line for the Top margin, and one for Unit of Measure, now it seems to work. Print to file is not that easy, my code is running on a PLC. But I'm still not happy about the print quality, the text looks grey instead of black. I have one PJL... -
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I try to change the left margin: ESC & a 15 L (without spaces in between) but what happen is: the Top Margin changes. Used settings: Paper Size = 26 (A4) Orientation = 0 (Portrait) Papersource = 7 (Auto) Printer: Epson Aculaser C1900 (HP LJ4 compatible) What is going on wrong?
