jafurlon@athena.mit.edu (06/15/91)
I would like to find out whether PCL/5 has some kind of job termination signal which appears at the end of every print job, the way that PostScript jobs are terminated with a control-D. My LaserJetIII Technical Reference manual mentions something about a "Job Separation Command" under PCL Command Parsing in programming hints... Does anyone know what this is? And can I count on it being a part of any PCL/5 interpreter? I know that there is a "Printer Reset Command", ESC-E which should be the first and last command of every job, but if I am correct, there is no guarantee that the printer does not get reset (for whatever reason) in the middle of a job. Also, does a PCL interpreter send back some kind of signal along the communication channel from which it received its input in the way that a PostScript interpreter returns a control-D when it has finished interpreting? Thanks for your help in advance... -Saadia Husain GCC Technologies Waltham, Massachusetts
jafurlon@athena.mit.edu; (06/15/91)
I would like to find out whether PCL/5 has some kind of job termination signal which appears at the end of every print job, the way that PostScript jobs are terminated with a control-D. My LaserJetIII Technical Reference manual mentions something about a "Job Separation Command" under PCL Command Parsing in programming hints... Does anyone know what this is? And can I count on it being a part of any PCL/5 interpreter? I know that there is a "Printer Reset Command", ESC-E which should be the first and last command of every job, but if I am correct, there is no guarantee that the printer does not get reset (for whatever reason) in the middle of a job. Also, does a PCL interpreter send back some kind of signal along the communication channel from which it received its input in the way that a PostScript interpreter returns a control-D when it has finished interpreting? Thanks for your help in advance... -Saadia Husain