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  • May 11, 2009
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[Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 11 May 2009]

Hello all,

We are printing in some cases using -p spooler direct, but when the printer finish we see that some special characters don't appear correctly: ?, ?, ? for example are transformed into another character. In the printer, a technician says us that the map of characters is correctly configured.

Anyone with the same problem or with experience in it?

Thanks afterwards

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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 11 May 2009]

    Hello all,

    We are printing in some cases using -p spooler direct, but when the printer finish we see that some special characters don't appear correctly: ?, ?, ? for example are transformed into another character. In the printer, a technician says us that the map of characters is correctly configured.

    Anyone with the same problem or with experience in it?

    Thanks afterwards
    Do you send plain text, or do you send escape sequences for formatting as well?
    If you do send escape sequences, either your sequence is incorrect or incomplete, or the current mode of the printer does not support what you send. If you for instance have escape sequences programmed for PCL5 and the printer is in PCL4 mode, some features may not be supported.
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 11 May 2009]

    Hello all,

    We are printing in some cases using -p spooler direct, but when the printer finish we see that some special characters don't appear correctly: ?, ?, ? for example are transformed into another character. In the printer, a technician says us that the map of characters is correctly configured.

    Anyone with the same problem or with experience in it?

    Thanks afterwards
    Hello Gforseth,

    We are sending plain text to the printer
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 11 May 2009]

    Hello all,

    We are printing in some cases using -p spooler direct, but when the printer finish we see that some special characters don't appear correctly: ?, ?, ? for example are transformed into another character. In the printer, a technician says us that the map of characters is correctly configured.

    Anyone with the same problem or with experience in it?

    Thanks afterwards
    Hello Gforseth,

    We are sending plain text to the printer
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 11 May 2009]

    Hello all,

    We are printing in some cases using -p spooler direct, but when the printer finish we see that some special characters don't appear correctly: ?, ?, ? for example are transformed into another character. In the printer, a technician says us that the map of characters is correctly configured.

    Anyone with the same problem or with experience in it?

    Thanks afterwards
    Hello Gforseth,

    We are sending plain text to the printer
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 11 May 2009]

    Hello all,

    We are printing in some cases using -p spooler direct, but when the printer finish we see that some special characters don't appear correctly: ?, ?, ? for example are transformed into another character. In the printer, a technician says us that the map of characters is correctly configured.

    Anyone with the same problem or with experience in it?

    Thanks afterwards
    In which case I am pretty sure the printer's encoding character set is not what you expect it to be. Most printers show up using codepage 437 (US extended ASCII).

    Do you know what codepage your printer is set to?
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 11 May 2009]

    Hello all,

    We are printing in some cases using -p spooler direct, but when the printer finish we see that some special characters don't appear correctly: ?, ?, ? for example are transformed into another character. In the printer, a technician says us that the map of characters is correctly configured.

    Anyone with the same problem or with experience in it?

    Thanks afterwards
    In which case I am pretty sure the printer's encoding character set is not what you expect it to be. Most printers show up using codepage 437 (US extended ASCII).

    Do you know what codepage your printer is set to?
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    [Migrated content. Thread originally posted on 11 May 2009]

    Hello all,

    We are printing in some cases using -p spooler direct, but when the printer finish we see that some special characters don't appear correctly: ?, ?, ? for example are transformed into another character. In the printer, a technician says us that the map of characters is correctly configured.

    Anyone with the same problem or with experience in it?

    Thanks afterwards
    In which case I am pretty sure the printer's encoding character set is not what you expect it to be. Most printers show up using codepage 437 (US extended ASCII).

    Do you know what codepage your printer is set to?

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