How did you "type" the escape and other control characters? Most text editors (e.g. NotePad) cannot handle control characters. Even those that can usually require a special trick to let you insert them. For example, DOS EDIT requires you to type Ctrl-V and then the character you want. Some control characters have a keyboard key, e.g Esc, so you can press that after the Ctrl-V. Others, such as FF (formfeed) need to be entered as a Ctrl key. In the case of EDIT and FF, you would type Ctrl-V Ctrl-L.
Other editors let you enter the control characters as hex or decimal numbers. Tell us which editor you are using, and someone will be able to tell you how to enter control characters.
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by: activephotoPosted on 2009-02-12 at 04:13:14ID: 23621186
First of all is it a LP2844 or a LP2844-Z model you are using? I assume its a LP2844 (without -Z)
Are you using EPL1 or EPL2, this requires different programming mode set in the printer (see quote from EPL2manual)
when you say copy the file to the printer, can you describe this more?
Quote from EPL programming manual
Flash based printers are, by default, configured for Page (EPL2) mode operations.
the operator must convert the printer to Line Mode prior to the initial use of LineMode.
This is done via a hardware select procedure with the feed button during printer power-up.
End Quote
if the above is not the issue, can you post the EPL code her?
/ Mikael