rrauenza@polyslo.CalPoly.EDU (Who, Me??) (06/03/91)
I recently found the command that sends printer data out of the serial port instead of the IR Port. What I want to do with this now is to write a program for my PC that reads the serial port and echo's the graphics data to my screen (virtual printer?) and/or dumps it to my Epson printer. My problem is understanding the HP printer graphics format. The lines seem to be of variable length and I think it is using some commands to do some simple compressing of the printer data (skip 10 columns, or something...) Does anyone have any info on the graphics format? Or a program like this already written? Or similar? I've tried the Epson printer driver library for the 48, but after I carefully download it to my HP (in binary mode) - it ends up as a string "HPHP-B...." that I can't do anything with (I actually got it stored in a library - except it got stored as a string =^/ ) (This also happened with usag.bin - both available at the hpbbs ftp site) Thanks, Rich -- +-------------------------- ----+- - - ----- --------- - - - -- - + | rrauenza@PolySlo.CalPoly.EDU | Hi! I'm a 1 ( rest of sig under ) | rrauenza@Ares.CalPoly.EDU | ----- Major ( construction until ) +------------ - -- - - --- - - + - - sin ( further notice... )