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view permanent macros on printer
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If the macros are truly permanent (and survive a power-cycle) this implies that they are held in non-volatile memory (e.g. hard disc, or some add-on card, etc.).
- In this case you may be able to interrogate (e.g. via Telnet) the disc folder structure to see what files are held (probably in a folder named Macros).
- But this will only tell you the names of the files.
- Of course, as webrabbit points out, your particular printer model (whatever it is) may have some proprietary mechanism to print all (or selected) macros?
On most printers, macros are held in RAM (rather than on disc), and (even if marked as 'permanent' in the PCL sense) will be deleted when the device is powered-off (or if certain PCL escape sequences are encountered in a print stream), and will hence have to be re-downloaded when the device is powered-on again.
- There may be a menu item which prints a list of the macro identifiers of 'permanent' macros held in RAM.
- or use the 'Status Readback' tool in the PCL Paraphernalia application (available via ) to obtain the list of Macro IDs.
- Neither of these will print the contents, just show you the identifiers.
- In this case you may be able to interrogate (e.g. via Telnet) the disc folder structure to see what files are held (probably in a folder named Macros).
- But this will only tell you the names of the files.
- Of course, as webrabbit points out, your particular printer model (whatever it is) may have some proprietary mechanism to print all (or selected) macros?
On most printers, macros are held in RAM (rather than on disc), and (even if marked as 'permanent' in the PCL sense) will be deleted when the device is powered-off (or if certain PCL escape sequences are encountered in a print stream), and will hence have to be re-downloaded when the device is powered-on again.
- There may be a menu item which prints a list of the macro identifiers of 'permanent' macros held in RAM.
- or use the 'Status Readback' tool in the PCL Paraphernalia application (available via ) to obtain the list of Macro IDs.
- Neither of these will print the contents, just show you the identifiers.
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