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#3 scs2pcl
Anyone yet thought about building a filter to rewrite
the data with PCL commands?
As most cheaper laser printer today are capable of
PCL it is a nice way of saveing a lot of money (which
a IPDS printer still costs)
I was just wondering if anyone has done something
like this (It will only take some modifications in
the scs2ascii code I guess). If one yet built such a
thing please let me know, otherwise I'll try to build
it my own, because I need a way of telling the
printer to do bold-print and free cursor-placement.
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An alternate way to get PCL output would be use "Host Print Transform". This works well in conjunction
with lp5250d & scs2ascii.
simply set: env.IBMMFRTYPMDL=*HP4 (or an appropriate printer type) in your tn5250rc file.
See the MFRTYPMDL parameter of the CRTDEVPRT command in OS/400 for information on possible
printer types.
Then, when you use scs2ascii, the output will be PCL that supports most features of AS/400 printing,
including graphics, overlays, fonts, etc.
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Hi, if this is still a feature you'd like to see, please open an issue at https://github.com/tn5250/tn5250/issues