>Hi Sergey
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>>There're no generic escape codes for printers. Each printer, besides supporting manufacturers printer language, may also have aditional Emulation modes. They're listed usually in the printer manual.
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>The manuals, atleast comprehensive ones are not given away with the printers and like I mentioned the hardware people are not at all aware that there are printer codes for laser printers. During my search I did stumble upon an HP site which had the printer codes, let's see how far I can go with them, atleast my local HP laser printer is giving me bold and underline fonts.

Last time I wrote in HP's internal language (HPGL or whatever it was called) was in a mess hall lunch ticket app for a hospital. Had a lot of fun all evening to print one page (!). But then that page was what we needed. You end up creating your set of routines to, basically, @say what you want where you want, taking care to understand all the foot long escape sequences and HP's coordinate system, in-built fonts and downloadable fonts.

Good luck.