Better then telnet?

[Michael A. Cleverly]

On 5/18/06, Gabriel Gunderson <gabe at gundy.org> wrote:
> I'm trying to print to a label printer sending the data to the print
> server's port.  The jobs are plain text (ZPL format).
>
> This works:
> cat PrintJob.prn | telnet 10.0.0.184 9100
>
> But, the last 20 or so labels don't print.  Any other commands that
> might do a better job buffering the flow of the print job (*if* that is
> the problem)?  I've never really messed with this kinda thing before so
> I have no clue where to start.

I'd guess you're missing a final form feed. (ASCII 12, see:
http://www.lammertbies.nl/comm/info/ascii-characters.html#form)

Michael