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PCL commands
Name: Jan Bratton Date: April 12, 2002 at 12:01:08 Pacific
Comment:
How can I send PCL commands to my printer using Windows 2000? In dos I used to send escape codes to set my deskjet to 66 lines per page, for example. I would love to be able to do this for Windows-based programs. Thanks
Name: Gary Mellor Date: April 12, 2002 at 14:28:57 Pacific
Reply:
Hi Jan,
May i ask why you want to do this from Windows ?
If you use PCL commands you generally have to send the command before every print job. If however you send a PJL command you can set your printer once and this will stick.
Place the text below in a text file and connect your pc to the paralel port of the printer. From DOS use the copy command to copy the file to the printer and bingo its done.
%-12345X@PJL COMMENT pjl command to set pcl default page to 66 lines @PJL DEFAULT LPARM : PCL PTSIZE=11 %-12345X
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