A.P. Lawrence

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Printing FAQ

What are the escape sequences to select the trays on my HP Laser printer?

Back before the dinosaurs died, printers came with manuals that had all this stuff in them. Nowadays, you are lucky if it's on the CD, and if it is, good luck finding it. Here's a few that may help for HPLaserjets:

The octal codes are what you'd probably use in an interface script:

echo "\033\030\c"

For a complete list of Laserjet codes see http://www.hp.com/cposupport/printers/support_doc/bpl02705.html#P156_3162

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Wed Jun 25 13:10:26 2008: Subject:   borek


current version of link
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsupport/TechSupport/Document.jsp?objectID=bpl02705

Wed Jun 25 14:45:54 2008: Subject:   BigDumbDInosaur
http://bcstechnology.net

Also, see http://www.sxlist.com/techref/language/pcls.htm for an extensive discussion of PCL5.

You may be interested to know that you can order a CD from H-P with a complete set of articles on PCL, encompassing both the theory and the escape codes.

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