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What are the escape sequences to select the trays on my HP Laser printer?
Back before the dinosaurs died, printers came with manuals that had all this stuff in them. Nowadays, you are lucky if it's on the CD, and if it is, good luck finding it. Here's a few that may help for HPLaserjets:
| Hexadecimal Code | Decimal Code | Octal Code | Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1B 11 | 27 17 | 033 021 | Standard Tray |
| 1B 15 | 27 21 | 033 025 | (4050) Standard Tray |
| 1B 14 | 27 20 | 033 024 | MP Paper Tray |
| 1B 15 | 27 21 | 033 025 | 500 Sheet Tray |
| 1B 18 | 27 24 | 033 030 | (4050) 500 Sheet Tray |
| 1B 16 | 27 22 | 033 026 | Optional Envelope Feeder |
The octal codes are what you'd probably use in an interface script:
echo "\033\030\c"
Thanks to Jean-Pierre Radley and Richard Seeder
For a complete list of Laserjet codes see http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=bpl02705 is another.
The ones to use for printing text:
echo "\033E\c" # Reset Printer
echo "\033&k2G\c" # Set line termination mode (LF=LF/CR).
See PCL6 also.
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Wed Jun 25 13:10:25 2008: borek
current version of link
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=bpl02705
Wed Jun 25 14:45:53 2008: BigDumbDInosaur
http://bcstechnology.net
Also, see http://www.sxlist.com/techref/language/pcls.htm for an extensive discussion of PCL5.
You may be interested to know that you can order a CD from H-P with a complete set of articles on PCL, encompassing both the theory and the escape codes.
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