Re: overprinting ASCII on Laserjet?
From Martin Atkins <zne...@ovtsbbg.pbz>
· alt.ascii-art
· 26 Apr 1999 00:00 · View full thread
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.----- On Tue, 20 Apr 1999 17:37:53 -0500, Robert Wood posted:
|I have been trying to print out one of the OLD line printer type posters
|on my HP Laserjet. I have tried a bunch of Escape code combination to
|make it treat a CR(Carriage return) as what it should be (reset to left
|margin, but do not advance the line). But no matter how I set Line
|Termination, it always prints a line, hits the CR, and advances the
|line. I know the printer is taking my Escape sequences, because I can
|set it to 8 lines an inch.
|
|So, is it even possible to "overprint" with a laser printer?
|
'--------------------------
OK, this is going right off on a tangent here but I'll suggest it anyway...
If you get yourself an HTML file like this: (before anyone says anything, I
don't really care how brilliant this HTML is so long as it renders in Mr
Wood's Internet Explorer which he must have since he has Win98)
<DIV STYLE="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">
<PRE>
|||||
| |
| |
| |
\___/
</PRE>
</SPAN>
<DIV STYLE="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">
<PRE>
o o
>
\_/
</PRE>
</SPAN>
Which, when loaded into Internet Explorer 4, will render as...
|||||
| o o |
| > |
| \_/ |
\___/
You can then print it from IE, and it will print like this. Therefore you
could quite feasibly overlay two characters (I can't represent that here, so
I didn't do it) and print it.
-Martin
|\/| _..__|_o._ /\_|_| o._ _ mart.atkins@--
| |(_|| |_|| | /--\|_|<|| |_> --bigfoot.com
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