PCL5 to PCL6 Escape code changes

[Bharath kumar]

Hello...
My cobol code that prints a signature on HP PCL5 printer has to be changed in such a way that it should print now on PCL6 printer. Vendor says they designed the signature box in the same manner as did for PCL5. But we are still not able to print the signature.

Existing code for PCL5:
03 PRINTLINE
05 ESC-12 PIC X(02) VALUE '|`'
05 ESC-34 PIC X(02) VALUE '1B'
05 ESC-5 PIC X(01) VALUE '$'
05 ESC-CHAR PIC X(03) VALUE '(0Y'.
05 ESC-67 PIC X(02) VALUE '|`'
05 ESC-89 PIC X(02) VALUE '1B'
05 ESC-10 PIC X(01) VALUE '$'
05 PRINT-SIGN PIC X(23) VALUE
'(s0p 1.18h61.v0s0b220T '.

We tried passing escapse characters as EDCDIC and Hexadecimals but it didnt work.

Can someone please advise

- Bharath

 

[VirtualLarry]

cobol code
EDCDIC

Can someone please advise

- Bharath

Wow, do some parts of the world still use those things? Good luck finding a mainframe expert here.

 

[ArtShapiro]

My understanding is that PCL6 is downward compatible with PCL5. I have some dealings with mainframe print drivers (Algol, not Cobol) and we did not need to make any changes when qualifying newer HP PCL6 printers.

Is it possible that you need to send a specific control sequence to put the printer into PCL mode? I think those HP printers speak multiple PDLs.

Art