| Title: | Digital ANSI-Compliant Printers and Printing | 
| Moderator: | REGENT::LASKO | 
| Created: | Tue May 01 1990 | 
| Last Modified: | Tue May 20 1997 | 
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 | 
| Number of topics: | 2259 | 
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    A customer asks the following question: how can we translate ASCII type
    text files to PCL type files ? I've not found the right answer so any 
    help would be gratly appreciated.
    Thanks in advance for help.
    
    Jean-Pierre
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| 2255.1 | More info needed (reply modified) | ULYSSE::COUSTILLAC | Tue Mar 25 1997 03:26 | 19 | |
|     Please mention what you really want to do.
    I imagine the final goal is not to translate an ASCII file to a PCL
    file for the pleasure to have a PCL file. Your real goal is likely to
    take a file which was produced by an application and printing to a
    printer which which has PCL only. 
    
    So, please mention what the printer is, what kind of system you have,
    and so on.
    
    We have a Convert box, attached to PCL printer, like a DEClaser
    3500 or an LN17, which translates LN03+ or PPL3 files into PCL-5 files.
    This convert box must be attached to the parallel port of a printer.
                 
                              
    Vincent
     
    
	Note : this reply was previously posted with a reference to DCPS.
    		This was a mistake. Sorry.
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