Re: Sending special characters to serial connected LaserWriter

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From: John Kalucki
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1992 02:11

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In article <1992Oct26.202733.5318@island.COM>, hue@coney.island.COM (Pond Scum) writes:
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>I am working a piece of software similar to Adobe TranScript's pscomm
>and James Clark's lprps.  I would like to be able to print files which
>contain binary data to a serially attached PostScript printer, but I
>cannot figure out how to send down the special characters (^A, ^C, ^D,
>^Q, ^S, ^T, and ^[) without them being interpreted as the special
>characters.  

Be sure that you have both the printer and the host in 8-bit mode.
By default, all postscript printers that I've seen fire up in 7-bit
mode and ignore the 8th bit.

Check your manual for the example postscript job to change the
value.  If you can't find it, then your printer probably uses the
'standard' method described in the 'Red' postscript book on p297.

			-John Kalucki
			johnk@gordian.com

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