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This is an archive of CompuServe forum messages from 1985 to 1995, as saved in transcripts by John Foust.

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#271831 Printer Control Codes Message #271950
From: Irv Thomae HP Peripherals Forum · LaserJet 4/5 May 15, 1995 8:46 AM
One of the advantages of HP's PCL language is the fact that except for the Esc character itself, almost all commands are composed entirely of 'normal' characters such as letters, digits, and punctuation symbols such as '*', '&', '(', ')', '@', and '%', so you seldom *need* a full hex…
#270884 HP LJ 4 DOS drivers Message #270998
From: Irv Thomae HP Peripherals Forum · LaserJet 4/5 May 11, 1995 4:34 PM
I'm sorry, but I don't think I can help you – I don't use WordPerfect myself, and clearly you need a WP-specific answer. Irv Thomae (SizeIt author) Succinct Systems, Inc.
From: Irv Thomae HP Peripherals Forum · LaserJet 4/5 May 10, 1995 8:22 PM
WHich commands do you need? dBase IV does provide basic setup commands for the LJ4-series – they cover "regular" and "compressed", and portrait / lanscape page orientations, but that's about it. It's far from being a complete printer driver, but check the documentation again. The problem is that the original…
#29453 NEC-84 for $395! Message #29551
From: Irv Thomae CDROM Forum · Drives/Hardware October 27, 1992 7:59 AM
>> NEC-84 for $395 .. It would be too much to expect an interface card to be included at that price, right? Wonder if they have the 74 (external) at a correspondingly amazing price? This raises an interesting question: Let's suppose you could have either an NEC84 or a Texel…