Printer Error Messages
Using BarDIMM From Microsoft Windows
Other Questions
I have a LaserJet 5Si equipped with MicrDIMM. When I want to print the PCL font list from the printer (through the control panel), the printer crash down. Is there anything wrong?
This problem happens with the HP LaserJet 5Si equipped with a firmware earlier than 9.X. If you don't need to print oftenly font lists, there should be no other problem. You may ask for a formatter upgrade for your HP LaserJet 5Si.
On my HP LaserJet 6P equipped with MicrDIMM, the status page is jammed
When the MicrDIMM is plugged into the HP LaserJet 6P printer, the status page is not always printed correctly. This does not affect the printer or MicrSIMM functionality.
After installing the MicrDIMM into my printer I get the error message "79 Service".
Verify if the MicrDIMM installed is compatible with your printer model. If you have a HP LaserJet 5Si, please verify the firmware level compatibility (7.X, 8.X or 9.X).
Amounts is not printed as text strings, or the printer goes into “ MEMORY OVERFLOW”
The printer might not recognize the MicrDIMM, and the MICR API parameters create huge fonts that overflow memory. Please verify the MicrDIMM is recognized by the printer (all information in the MicrDIMM manual).
Using BarDIMMM from Microsoft Windows applications
When I open MicrDIMM test files in MS Word, and then print the opened file, no barcode is printed?
Do not open test files in a Windows application, but copy them to the printer using the following MS-Dos command: copy /b <filename> lpt1 where <filename> is replaced by the file name.
When I use the Windows driver generator, MICR symbols are replaced by text.
Make sure you are using a PCL5 driver (and not a PCL XL or PostScript driver). MicrDIMM can only work with PCL-5 printer language.
Under windows, I don't see the MICR fonts and symbols in my font menu.
Make sure you used the Windows Driver generator for Windows 95/98/NT/2000. This program can be downloaded from this WEB site.
Under Windows 2000, the font list includes more MICR symbologies than what I have in the PCM file generated using BDRVGEN, and some MICR data is printed as standard text
This is because of a problem in Windows 2000 support of external printer resources (like fonts). The list of "fonts" is not correctly updated and fonts which have been disabled are still available in menus. Windows 2000 creates automatically dummy TrueType representation of fonts it does not know (like MicrDIMM fonts and MICR symbols). Therefore, as soon as you integrate MicrDIMM symbols and API in the font list, dummy TrueType fonts are created for display. Windows 2000 does not remove those dummy fonts when you uninstall barcode fonts, and even duplicate them when you install more fonts. This results into MicrDIMM sequences being replaced by TrueType fonts downloaded to the printer.Therefore, it is mandatory to first manually remove all Dummy BC_ fonts from Windows 2000 every time you update the MicrDIMM symbols and API security fonts in the driver (please read instructions in the BDRVGEN manual).
I can not add PCM fonts to the PCL5 driver
- Under Windows 2000, only HP compliant PCL5 drivers can be updated with external fonts. Some drivers do not allow to add printer fonts. In such cases, we recommend you switch to a standard HP PCL5 driver (LJ4000/5000/8000). The LJ4000 PCL5 driver from HP for Windows 2000, version 4.3.2.44 has been identified as being compatible with BDRVGEN 2.1
- Under Windows NT, make sure you have at least one PCL5 printer installed (local installation). Only 100% Microsoft compliant PCL5 drivers can be updated with external fonts. Some recent PCL5 drivers from Hewlett Packard do not use the standard Microsoft mechanisms for font registration and therefore can not accept additional external fonts. In such cases, we recommend to switch to a standard Microsoft PCL5 driver.
- Under Windows 95/98, only Microsoft and HP compliant PCL5 drivers can be updated with external fonts. Some drivers do not allow to add printer fonts. In such cases, we recommend you switch to a standard Microsoft PCL5 driver (LJ5 or 5Si).
No printer font appears in my font list
Make sure the current printer in the application has been updated with MICR fonts. Make sure that you did not activate only the TrueType fonts in the font menu (Settings/ Control Panel/ Fonts/ Display/ Folder Options/ TrueType).
No MICR symbols appear on the screen
Windows can not display text as a MICR symbols for text. And that would hide the data value from the user. All data appear as text.
MICR symbols and data are not printable from my Windows application
Some Windows applications are incompatible with BDRVGEN.EXE, because of their text handling technique (character repositioning, TrueType fonts only…). This represents one of the limits of those applications and BDRVGEN.EXE. Under Windows 2000, the BarDIMM™/MicrDIMM NT /W2K Driver plug-in allows most Windows applications to use MicrDIMM system (Microsoft Excel, Word, Access...)..
When I print a document, all barcode data appear as Arial
You probably have forgotten to reselect the font size, and as the MICR symbology is not available with the default size, Windows defaults to Arial. Under Windows 2000, make sure you remove all dummy TrueType fonts before updating the PCM file for a driver.
What is the PCL escape sequence to activate the OCR-B font ?
<Esc>(1O<Esc>(s0p10h12v0s0b110T (bitmap) or <Esc>(s1p12v0s0b23590T (scalable)
How to stop MICR printing ?
You need to send any other font selection sequence after the MICR data.
