PeopleSoft AP Checks - Displaying PCL Fonts

[direwolf]

I have custom fonts installed on our HP printer - they are not 'soft' fonts, they are on a module, plugged in to one of the printer slots. One is a MICR font, and the other is a signature font for printing checks. I have successfully printed these fonts from a DOS Edit file. However, when I enter these PCL commands in a formula editor in Crystal, the associated fonts do not print. Instead, the PCL codes simply print in clear text.

It seems like the issue has to do with sending these codes (containing binary escape charachters) to the printer in the correct format. I tried using the Chr(27) Crystal function to concat the escape sequence with the remainder of the PCL code, but this did not work. It seems like the PCL command must be sent in binary mode. Has anyone done this before? Does this need to be defined in an OLE object?

Thanks

Ben

 

[kentbabb]

I experienced the same problem.

I'm not sure about your printer setup, but mine had some extra commands besides the normal PCL ones (like to enter a password, etc.) One of the commands is an escape code translation. I used this command to change the escape code to '@@'. So then I could start my PCL commands with @@(0U... or whatever instead of trying to use Chr(27).

Also, I found that I could only enter PCL commands (on MY printer, anyway) in a non-scalable (non-TrueType) font, preferably size 10.

I hope this helps!
Kent