hp laserjet 1010 control codes

thanx v much, read up about your terms, & i now get it, including "beware of these printers for non windows systems"! it does however take straight text: perhaps some other codes as well, or is this unknown or hidden?

The only people who can tell you what the printer will take are HP - and I doubt very much they'll admit to anything. For one thing, once they publish a list of undocumented commands they will suddenly have to provide some support for them.

And you're right saying "beware of these printers for non windows systems" - they are good enough for home users who connect them to one PC only and print from Windows only. For everyone else, look for PCL or PostScript.

What exactly are you trying to do with the printer that would require the control codes?

this is legacy work: existing dbase then foxpro from dos, now vfp 6.0, where i had my own simple drivers handling 10 or15 printers (i added each time a new printer which wasn't handled by existing). i embed the control codes in the program. this is the 1st time i can't do it.

I see. There really aren't any codes you can use with the 1010, since that is a raster-based printer. Would using something like Ghostscript work? If so, you could output PostScript to Ghostscript, which would then print the PostScript file to the 1010.

thanx for the added tip to Ghostscript, the 1st answer mentioned sth similar; i'll look at both these, but i'm probably going to take the plunge & rewrite some of the reports, the tools in vfp are fine, & it gives all the extra capabilities of where to print to etc. some of these repts are around 18 years old. no too bad! migrating since then. thanx.

One thing to keep in mind is that GhostScript is open source and free. :)