printing command language

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I have a fifteen years old printer - Fuzitsu Breeze 100.
This printer not only prints under DOS.
When seeing a page in the BIOS and pressing the "print"-key it also
prints this BIOS-page.
That means, it prints without an operating system.
I am eager to know what printing command language such printer use.
 
I have a fifteen years old printer - Fuzitsu Breeze 100.
This printer not only prints under DOS.
When seeing a page in the BIOS and pressing the "print"-key it also
prints this BIOS-page.
That means, it prints without an operating system.
I am eager to know what printing command language such printer use.
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It's an machine level interrupt vector to the keyboard's PRNSCR. A
basic or elemental Input/Output machine provision and a standard all
printers effective recognize, but not a language. The language is
different features of a printer which are referenced for commands
contained in its driver. Whether the printing printing programs can
use them is a relation of good the program is and how many commands
the printer is limited to. Mostly a recognized conception you've
either got color or not for practical implications.
 
I have a fifteen years old printer - Fuzitsu Breeze 100.
This printer not only prints under DOS.
When seeing a page in the BIOS and pressing the "print"-key it also
prints this BIOS-page.
That means, it prints without an operating system.
I am eager to know what printing command language such printer use.
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If still uncertain (e.g. no manual) you can try the utility DOSPrn
which has various command sets, from http://www.dosprn.com/
A useful reference might be Scott Foerster's The Printer (Que 1990.)
 
I have a fifteen years old printer - Fuzitsu Breeze 100.
This printer not only prints under DOS.
When seeing a page in the BIOS and pressing the "print"-key it also
prints this BIOS-page.
That means, it prints without an operating system.
I am eager to know what printing command language such printer use.
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Ascii text. Just text. That's it!

Print screen dumps the text that's on the screen to the printer port,
lpt1. The printer gets this text, and prints it. If you don't get a
page spat out, you might have to introduce the end of page character,
ctrl-L IIRC.

Postscript printers, unless they happen to be in HP emulation mode,
don't print the screen in this way. But you can chat with them in a
terminal and get some very robust output without a GUI.

Keep in mind that the printscreen command was offered in the age of
daisy wheel and dotmatrix. As a point of interest, some printers
still offer Epson dotmatrix emulation which happens to pass ascii
input directly to the page.
 
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