>>Is there an easy way around this? ...escape characters? .. another way of writing to the port?
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>>Thanks for any consideration.
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>>John
>>Groton, MA
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>LETS TRY AGAIN (cutoff are killing me!)....
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>set device to print
>??? chr(27)+"&l0O"+chr(27)+"(10U"+chr(27)+"(s16h"+chr(27)+"(s1B"
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>this PCL will set portriat mode with 16 cpi and medium char stroke.

Lucien,

Thank your for your consideration in responding.

However, my question still stands... ??? appears to be eating the 'curly braces' '{' and '}' characters in my POSTSCRIPT commands. The documentation for ??? indicates that the braces are used to indicate printer codes, i.e. the braces are stripped out and not actually sent.

If I am wrong here will someone spin me around to the right direction and give me a good boot?!

John