billb@amcad.UUCP (Bill Burton) (02/03/89)
We have a Unisys AP9415 postscript printer. I believe this
printer is oem'd from Richo. It has dual bins, 3.0MB RAM, 15PPM,
emulates an HP Laserjet+, Diablo 630, and TI 855 printers.
What I have in mind is to set up the printer to be in HP mode by
default since many programs that are not postscript friendly can output
to an HP Laserjet. An escape sequence can be issued to the printer to
switch from any of the emulations to postscript batch mode. However,
after this sequence (esc del 0) is sent, a one to two second delay is
required. Also, the printer must be idle and doing any kind of
processing.
Question #1: How can I generate this delay in postscript? assuming that
during the delay the printer is not in some strange state and is capable
of interpreting the commands for the delay.
Question #2: When the postscript job has finished, I would like the
software to return the printer to HP mode, or rather whatever emulation
mode the printer was in before entering postscript batch mode.
The integer variable softwareiomode returns the value of the
currently selected softare interface. For example, the following
commands will set the printer to HP emulation mode.
statusdict begin
5 setsoftwareiomode
end
How can I read softwareiomode, save its value before the job and when
the job finishes, reset the emulation mode to what it was before
entering the postscript batch mode?
The software being used is Wordperfect 5.0, Ventura Publisher
2.0 and some other misc. software that does not speak postscript. All
on a Novell 2.11 based network. Assuming what I am asking can be done
with postscript, I'm planning to modify the Wordperfect postscript
printer driver to incorporate the necessary changes. Don't know yet if
I can modify the Ventura postscript driver.
Also, would appreciate hearing from anyone who is using this
printer.
Please respond by e-mail.
Thanks,
-Bill
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