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  [vincent-datascanpharmacy-M96] Replied to post 38166.6810069444 by JMN-EFP-786

|Insert 'In reference to (1), you CAN produce PCL from notepad but it requires you to know the ASCII DECIMAL code for the characters rather than the HEX code.  For example, ESC is ASCII decimal 27.  In notepad, hold ALT and using the NUMERIC KEYPAD (this WILL NOT WORK with the numbers keys on the top of the keyboard) press 2, then press 7, then release the ALT key.  You will see the arrow pointing to the left appear at the cursor position.  That is the escape character.

Most PCL documentation provides the DECIMAL as well as HEX codes for the escape sequences.  Make sure you use the DECIMAL code with this technique.
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<A TITLE="JMN-EFP-786" NAME="38166.6810069444" HREF="/techref/member/JMN-EFP-786/index.htm">James
    Newton</A> replies: <I>1. No, but only because it can not generate the escape
    character that is required at the start of any PCL command. If you have the
    escape character in a file, then you can edit that file in notepad and copy
    the character. The exception is PCL with binary data such as font downloads
    and images. Notepad is not a binary editor.</I>
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    2. If the printer driver installed is PCL
    <P>
    3. That depends on a long list of things. Among them are the font used to
    print the data in PCL, the font settings in the printer driver used to create
    the PCL, the original source of the text, etc... See pagetech.com for solutions
    in this area.