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Message: [QUOTE="Dennis Lee Bieber, post: 4011178"] I no longer have access to the HP PCL, or the ancient Epson MX-80, manuals... But those printers also operated in raw text modes; one had to send control codes to enable the graphical operations, and might have been able to drop in and out at will. In contrast I once had a Lexmark inkjet (lasted less than a year -- poor color rendition, practically no ink-low feedback, I'm surprised it honored paper-out signaling). This printer had NO TEXT MODE, and no internal control language either [short of maybe codes telling it to start/end page] -- the Windows (only) driver had to lay out everything as a bitmap and send it to the printer... PCL, at least, allowed one to send text to the printer after giving it codes for position on page, font, and size... [/QUOTE]