Re: DOS printing ..help please ..

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From: Bovine Unit #243
Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 01:49

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> When the file is written to the LPT port, I can see the instruction to the
> printer. The EURO symbol has got an ASCII value of 128.When I debug the flat
> file , I can see '80' (128 in HEXA) for the EURO symbol.But , the prointer
> prints some freak character.

My guess is if your printer prints directly from the file (i.e. it's not
PostScript printer or something), then the printer is printing from a
character look-up table in its ROM. Is the "freak character" French (?)
character "C" with funny tail? If that is so, then it must be updated to
have Euro symbol in its ROM. If your HP printer is several years old and
doesn't contain Euro symbol, then you'll have to somehow generate a
graphic character and send it to the printer as graphic or update the
character set in ROM.

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