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From: daveb@oresoft.uu.net (David Barnes)
Newsgroups: comp.text
Subject: Re: Printing bitmaps on an ImageStation
Keywords: imPRESS rasterfiles
Message-ID: <537@oresoft.uu.net>
Date: 19 Dec 88 19:40:48 GMT
References: <531@oresoft.uu.net> <792@mplvax.nosc.MIL>
Reply-To: daveb@oresoft.UUCP (David Barnes)
Organization: Oregon Software, Portland OR
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In article <792@mplvax.nosc.MIL> cdl@mplvax.ucsd.edu.UUCP (Carl Lowenstein) writes:
>The serial byte-stream protocol can be set up to have two special
>purpose characters:  EOF and Quote...
>The trick is to get the sending program on the Sun and the receiving
>program on the Imagen to agree on these values...
>... I hope that you can convince your ImageStation
>to do the same, going through its setup procedure.

Thanks, Carl, for a good suggestion.  It's true that by manipulating the EOF
and Quote values I can obtain some improvements in my output, but it's still
garbled.  It seems that the quote characters serve their purpose well as far
as transmitting the bitmap to the printer, but they're stripped out before
the actual imPRESS image processor gets hold of the file.

There's something peculiar about the ImageStation in particular;  I can print
the files just fine on our Imagen 3320.