Advance AREV 2.0 I just purchased a new HP printer laserjet P1006. I can not print to this printer and need the escape codes. First are these codes available and if so how can i get them.

1) your message seems to say you can't print at all … if that is the case escape codes wont help

2) normally all escape codes are listed in the manual if the printer accepts escape codes.

is this what you meant?

Patrick,

The printer is a USB printer.

FWIW, this could be your problem.

Ray Chan

Yes the new printer (HP P1006) is USB, but so was the old one (HP 1022). I have been printing for years on the old one.

There are no codes listed in the manual (PCL). Does this mean that this printer cannot be controled from AREV.

The printer is attached to a network computer, being used as a print server, and the printer is redirected to LPT1 through a net use command.

Check the setup menu on the printer. Many of the later model LaserJets have an info page that prints out the escape codes. If not there used to be a PDF document on the HP support website.

No information in set-up. are you talking about controlling a HP printer directly with PCL. If so I have that document.

Ok, I just looked the printer up on HP's website:

http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/c01295069.pdf

pre.code {

 background-color: #E5E5E5;

 border: 1px solid #000000;

 width: 940px;

 padding: 5px;

 font-family: courier, verdana, arial, serif;

 margin: 0px 10px auto;

}

[b]Introduction to host-based printing[/b]

[i]The HP LaserJet P1000 and P1500 Series printers are host-based devices. Host-based printing differs 
from PCL printing by rendering the print job on the host computer rather than on the device formatter.[/i]

As a host-based printing system, the HP LaserJet P1000 and P1500 Series print drivers use the Windows 
operating system to convert the graphics device interface (GDI) or device driver interface (DDI) calls 
from software programs into JBIG (standard-compression) compressed pages. These pages are sent in 
“chunks” through the driver to the device formatter.

The HP LaserJet P1000 and P1500 Series print drivers also receive status messages from the formatter 
firmware. These messages are passed to the Status Application, which displays them.

The HP LaserJet P1000 Series formatter has no read-only memory (ROM) and up to 8 MB of random access 
memory (RAM). The amount of RAM varies based on the model of printer. Both the firmware and the 
compressed page must fit into the amount of RAM installed in the printer.

Depending on the model of printer, the HP LaserJet P1500 Series formatter has up to 2 MB of readonly 
memory (ROM) and up to 32 MB of RAM. Both the firmware and the compressed page must fit into the amount
of RAM installed in the printer.

Sounds like it won't work with DOS unless you can figure out how to use the Linux drivers to work for you.

If printer is USB only, then try using DOSPRN

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