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From: tneff@bfmny0.BFM.COM (Tom Neff)
Newsgroups: comp.laser-printers
Subject: Re: Switching From TI microLaser HP -> PS and vice versa
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Date: 17 Mar 91 00:17:42 GMT
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In article <9103151457.AA04789@crayola.cs.UMD.EDU> cramer@optilink.UUCP (Clayton Cramer) writes:
>A while back, someone posted a description of the commands to send
>to switch a TI microLaser PS from LaserJet mode to PostScript, and
>vice versa, by sending various commands.  Well, I took them home,
>and the PostScript -> LaserJet works fine; the LaserJet -> 
>PostScript doesn't work.  Does anyone have the command for 
>LaserJet -> PostScript?

Boy, I hate it when unscrupulous dealers sell printers without the
MANUAL, don't you?  After all, if one had the MANUAL one could open it
to page D-10 and read the [Global Commands]/[Emulation] section at the
bottom of the page, where it says

    PS batch    ESC DLE 0   1B 10 30
    ...
    HPII        ESC DLE 6   1B 10 36

It's easy to create a couple of tiny files or EMIT commands and put them
in batch files to switch emulations.