[Foomatic] cdj880 driver produces bad PCL

Patrick Powell papowell at astart.com
Fri Jan 23 10:33:04 PST 2004


Perhaps it is fate or bad luck,  but the very next driver I looked
at, purely at random, had a problem as well.

TestParse_PCL

test 0x04

 # multiple command escape sequence "\x1b&l2aolE"
Page Size = 2 "\x1b&l2A"
Page Orientation = 0 "\x1b&l0O"
Perforation Skip = 0 "\x1b&l0L"
Top Margin = 0 "\x1b&l0E"
Unknown escape sequence "\x1b*o1M"
Media Type = 0 "\x1b&l0M"
Vertical Cursor Position Units = 76 "\x1b*p76Y"
Mystery PCL Command = 26 "\x1b*g26W" DATA "\x02\x04\x02\x58\x02\x58\x00\x02\x02\x58\x02\x58\x00\x04\x02\x58\x02\x58\x00\x04\x02\x58\x02\x58\x00\x04"
Start Raster Graphics = 1 "\x1b*r1A"
 # Escape sequence not terminated correctly: "\x1b*b2m"
 # multiple command escape sequence "\x1b*b2m"
Set Compresion Method = 2 "\x1b*b2M"
Raster Y Offset = 2980 "\x1b*b2980Y"

The Mystery PCL Command appears to be device specific, and
is not documented in the PCL reference materials.

However, the command "\x1b*b2m" is followed by a ESC (\x1b),
which is invalid PCL format.

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