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
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