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- From: G.W.Bultman <bultman@dgw.rws.nl>
- Newsgroups: comp.text.tex
- Subject: Re: DVI for HP (Autoswitching Laserjet IIISi)
- Message-ID: <9301210624.AA24665@sun4nl.nluug.nl>
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 93 7:23:14 MET
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- Hi,
-
- > Postscript prints are great on our IIIsi, but the printer is
- > used in PCL mode, and too many people use it to allow switching
- > modes manually every time a TeX document is printed. If there is
- > some way to auto-switch for the Postscript document, this would be
- > absolutely great as well.
-
- I'm sure it can be done - our company does it.
- They use a different printer queue for each type of document, one
- for PCL documents & one for Postscript documents. So the user decides
- which queue to send it to and the queue driver/manager program adds
- the appropriate initialisation string before submitting the document
- to the printer. This initialisation string is documented in the
- printer manuals, and is quite simple ASCII, such as 'SET LANGUAGE=PCL'
- or something like that.
-
- Hope this helps,
- Gert.
-
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