Re: Counterpoint: Lexmark's lack of technical support

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From: Russell Nelson
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 1997 00:00

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Ralph Pengelly <r.pengelly@cqu.edu.au> writes:

> Having printed to disk using the Win3.1 driver, I find that the control
> codes are rather odd. They all seem to begin with the bytes (in hex) 1b
> 2a (ESC *). The driver also seems to send an uncompressed pixel map; a
> single page of text gave a file of around 4 megabytes.

Sounds like the lead-in to an HP escape sequence.  Are the characters
following the '*' ASCII digits?  Or do they look binary?  See if
they're two pair of characters which represent the dimensions of a
bitmap in binary.  You can get the dimensions by printing a box.

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From: Russell Nelson <nelson@crynwr.com>
Subject: Re: Counterpoint: Lexmark's lack of technical support
Date: 1997/12/13
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