Recently bought this Samsung laser printer. I was unhappy to find that its CD contained no technical documentation beyond how to install a Windows driver. (Actually, by "unahppy", I mean that the totality of curse words in the English language is inadequate to express how I feel about this fine company.)
Right now, I can print out CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT, and not a lot more.
I want to print from an old DOS word processor, and thus need to write a simple driver. The sort of commands I need to give it are:
i) select a font;
ii) switch fixed-width <-> proportional.
iii) bold/italic/superscript/subscript;
....
Can I assume that there is a selection of fonts already stored in the printer?
The printer box says PCL6 _emulation_. What does "emulation" mean here? That if it doesn't work, it's because it's only "emulation", or something?
Will there be some sort of initialisation command required to bring the printer into PCL6 mode?
Assuming that Samsung's "help" department isn't going to help (that's the way it's looking so far), is there technical documentation available for downloading, and if so where do I start searching? (I've tried searching for "PCL" and "PCL6" with various additional qualifiers like "spec", but the only useful site I found amongst thousands of adverts was this one.)
The quickest of quick questions, whose answer might help me get started: What is the PCL6 code to switch the printer's newline code from the DOS convention (CR+LF) to the UNIX (LF) and back again?
Thanks in advance for any and all help!
--
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)
Right now, I can print out CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT, and not a lot more.
I want to print from an old DOS word processor, and thus need to write a simple driver. The sort of commands I need to give it are:
i) select a font;
ii) switch fixed-width <-> proportional.
iii) bold/italic/superscript/subscript;
....
Can I assume that there is a selection of fonts already stored in the printer?
The printer box says PCL6 _emulation_. What does "emulation" mean here? That if it doesn't work, it's because it's only "emulation", or something?
Will there be some sort of initialisation command required to bring the printer into PCL6 mode?
Assuming that Samsung's "help" department isn't going to help (that's the way it's looking so far), is there technical documentation available for downloading, and if so where do I start searching? (I've tried searching for "PCL" and "PCL6" with various additional qualifiers like "spec", but the only useful site I found amongst thousands of adverts was this one.)
The quickest of quick questions, whose answer might help me get started: What is the PCL6 code to switch the printer's newline code from the DOS convention (CR+LF) to the UNIX (LF) and back again?
Thanks in advance for any and all help!
--
Alan Mackenzie (Munich, Germany)