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From Microsoft How to print to a network printer from an MS-DOS-based program in Windows XP (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/314499)

Use the following

c:\>net use LPT1: \\mycomputer\myprinter
c:\>copy testfile LPT1:


where mycomputer is the name of the local computer, and myprinter is the share name.

Lets bypass all the intermediate processes.
Save the print file to disk.
Edit the file so that only two pages are printed.

cat set33 saved_print_file reset >testfile

Go to the XP machine....

Are there also escape sequences in the original print file? If so they will override whatever commands you prefix the file with. Can you save the original print file, and post the first 3 lines,...

echo "\0033C\0041\c" >set33
confirm that file set33 contains 3 characters using a hex or octal dump program. Hex dump should look like 1b 43 21.
Do the same with the printer reset.

echo...

Sorry but this question makes no sense whatsever. There is no such thing as a "LPR port".


Get the manual for your printer and find out how to put the printer into diagnostic mode where it will...

Looks like it is reading the escape sequence as "Esc C !" (i.e. taking octal 041 to mean character ! - not decimal 33).

Time to get hold of the manual for your printer. The first thing to check...

You should also add an additional escape sequence to return the printer to its power on settings at the end of the job, otherwise, every job will have to set its own page length.
Try setting the...

My version of the basic technique is in post #3.

How is the Windows printer configured? Does it have the Epson driver loaded and a configuration screen where you can change the page size? Or is it...

The easiest would be to write a script that would parse the give lp option, create the PCL sequence and put that in head of a new file, append the the to print perhaps rename the final file in /tmp...

Configured as a remote printer, the HP-UX knows nothing about the printer except its hostname (or IP...), therefore ignores all options you would try to send... (man lp and specially 1m rlp ...).
I...

This seems to be a 10-year-old printer for DOS and early Windows.
Epson LQ-680Pro, Documents & Manuals - Technical Support - Epson America, Inc....

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Homepage: Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) (http://www.hpe.com) (the www.hp.com (http://www.hp.com) is for the consumer market)
Documentation: HPE QuickSpecs...