PCL to staple each PS job in a concatenated file

[DanNJ]

Printer Xerox DP92c
Controller NPS
Operating system Solaris 8

I was wondering if there was a way to use PCL to separate various concatenated PostScript jobs during printing. I was thinking of using the Job Separation command and a PCL or PostScript staple command to print and staple 10 jobs separately that are concatenated into one PS file.

If this is possible does anyone know how to generate the <ESC> character for Solaris? I have tried a few things but my job fails saying it does not recognize the ^ character.

 

[DansDadUK]

I don't know Solaris, but it shouldn't be too difficult to get it to generate hex(1B) for <escape> (getting utilities to generate hex(00) (for <NUL>) is a different matter).

However, I don't think you'll have much luck in 'splitting' a job of concatenated requests which use one 'personality' (i.e PostScript in your case) with commands from another personality (PCL) on NPS-front-ended devices.

I believe that the NPS determines the personality by examining the beginning of the stream, and then allocating the job to an appropriate virtual print queue. It will not thereafter recognise sequences from another language (unlike most HP mixed-personality devices) - I don't think that even the Universal Exit Language sequence has any effect once the current language has been determined as PostScript.