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How you can send escape codes to the printer ??
I am using a Desk Jet Plus and I try to send escape
characters using: echo ^[k2G > /dev/lp1 ( ^[ are two
characters ^ and [ ) but I dont'd think that it works
since it just print the string .
I am using linux 0.96b patchlevel 1.

Thank you in advance,
Harry Georgopoulos

Quote:>How you can send escape codes to the printer ??
>I am using a Desk Jet Plus and I try to send escape
>characters using: echo ^[k2G > /dev/lp1 ( ^[ are two
>characters ^ and [ ) but I dont'd think that it works
>since it just print the string .
>I am using linux 0.96b patchlevel 1.

^ and [ are two characters, so it doesn't work.  Use control V
to escape the escape - ie on your keyboard, type

control - v followed by escape.

Also, you might want to use

echo -n

So that no new line is printed.

Quote:>How you can send escape codes to the printer ??

The preferred method of sending escape codes is to use printf(1) which can
be found in the GNU utils.  Unfortunately the latest release has a couple
of little bugs that cause it to mess up hex and octal escapes.  I sent a
fix to gnu.utils.bug and they will probably include a better fix in the
next release.  With a fixed printf your example would look like

printf '\x1b&k2G' >/dev/lp

With a broken printf the \x1b would have to be replaced by a literal escape.

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Doug Quale

Excerpts from netnews.comp.os.linux: 24-Jun-92 Sending escape codes to

Quote:>How you can send escape codes to the printer ??
>I am using a Desk Jet Plus and I try to send escape
>characters using: echo ^[k2G > /dev/lp1 ( ^[ are two
>characters ^ and [ ) but I dont'd think that it works
>since it just print the string .

I wish it were that easy :)

you have to echo the hex values for those characters to the printer.
This should work, I think.

echo '\0x1b\0x26\0x6b\0x32\0x47' > /dev/lp1
or just
echo '\0x1b'&k2G > /dev/lp1

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Quote:>How you can send escape codes to the printer ??
>I am using a Desk Jet Plus and I try to send escape
>characters using: echo ^[k2G > /dev/lp1 ( ^[ are two
>characters ^ and [ ) but I dont'd think that it works
>since it just print the string .
>I am using linux 0.96b patchlevel 1.

>Thank you in advance,
>Harry Georgopoulos

This is a shell character entry issue.
You have to enter the sequence Control-V Escape to enter Escape on the
command line. It will print as C-[ since Escape is actually Control-[
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Quote:> How you can send escape codes to the printer ??
> I am using a Desk Jet Plus and I try to send escape
> characters using: echo ^[k2G > /dev/lp1 ( ^[ are two
> characters ^ and [ ) but I dont'd think that it works
> since it just print the string .

This is my lpinit script for bash:

echo -ne '\033&k2G' >/dev/lp2

The -n suppresses the linefeed, and the -e allows octal escapes.
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: How you can send escape codes to the printer ??
: I am using a Desk Jet Plus and I try to send escape
: characters using: echo ^[k2G > /dev/lp1 ( ^[ are two
: characters ^ and [ ) but I dont'd think that it works
: since it just print the string .
: I am using linux 0.96b patchlevel 1.
:
: Thank you in advance,
: Harry Georgopoulos

HERE'S THE SOLUTION:
type 'cat > prtinit'
press RETURN
press ESC-key
type 'k2G'
press CRTL-D
press RETURN
type 'cat prtinit >/dev/lp1'       (You can put this line in your /etc/rc)

Have a nice printing

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