[rescue] my first big iron! and a couple of questions:

[Samuel Kopel]

And for those of us who do this and get a visit from an angry suit. How do
you change it back?

On Sat, 3 Jan 2004, R. Lonstein wrote:

> Date: Sat, 3 Jan 2004 09:17:03 -0500
> From: R. Lonstein <ross-sunhelp at lonsteins.com>
> Reply-To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> To: The Rescue List <rescue at sunhelp.org>
> Subject: Re: [rescue] my first big iron! and a couple of questions:
>
> On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:05:21AM +0000, Kris Kirby wrote:
> > On Fri, 2 Jan 2004, Bill Bradford wrote:
> > > I'm still a big fan of "INSERT 25 CENTS" on older Laserjets. 8-)
> >
> > STORY. How can I do this?
> 	[snip]
>
> It's HP PJL, printer job language. Send the following to the printer:
>  <ESC>%-12345X at PJL<CR><LF>
>  @PJL RDYMSG DISPLAY="<YOUR TEXT HERE>" <CR><LF>
>  <ESC>%-12345X
>
> substitute the appropriate control codes for my abbreviations.  If
> it's too long for the display it will truncate on older models and
> scroll on newer ones; try to limit to 16 chars I think. Lines like
> "PRINTER TIRED", "BEWARE I LIVE" (sinistar reference, btw), "KILL A
> TREE", "KTNX" or "SNAFU" are good ones.
>
> - Ross
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