Printing DataObject with PCL5/6

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Hello ,

Do we have any solution for printing dataobject via PCL5/6?

PCLTCP - print ASCII texts directly on a network printer that supports RAW printing by PCL commands
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Hi @Darshan_Panchal,

I have a very old implementation of RAW network printing by sending PCL sequences via TCP/IP to a network printer (no USB printers).
The printer has to have some built-in fonts; in past, most network capable printers met this requirement.

The implementation supports just ASCII texts (no graphics, no tables, a.s.o, just plain text) and some PCL command codes (for example to set some text bold or italic) - building the page and content itself has to be done by application (no “print datamodule” functionality or so).

If the described, very restricted functionality still meets your requirements, I would try to convert the implementation to an actual Automation Studio 4 (right now it’s some AS3.x implementation).
Please give me just a short repsonse if I should try to convert and provide it (I’m not be able to test it after conversion right now, since I haven’t a suitable network printer availiable), thanks.

Best regards!

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If the “print datamodule” functionality is not available, can we retrieve the live values of variables and instruct to print them along with preset text?

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Hi,

in the end it works like that:

  • you just put strings into a “virtual page”, and this page is later sent to the printer via TCP/IP
  • whatever you’re able to deliver as a string (e.g. a string containing variable values built by AsBrStr() library, or content read from a data module and transformed to a string) can be put into that “virtual page”
  • the library itself just handles the virtual page memory, the TCP/IP handling, and some helper functions, for example to add a newline, a page feed, setting the print position to a x/y character position, and so on.

In short words: building the page content is not part of the print implementation, just the handling around the content.
So you’re completely free to build the page content (as long as it’s just ASCII text), but this has to be done by your application.

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Hi @Darshan_Panchal,

As soon as I found it again, I saw that upgrading the old code was not a big deal, so I just did it. Just have a look into that post to decide if you can utilize it or not :wink:

Best regards!

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