is there any codes thaht are universal between prints
if so what are they
if not what are the codes for a panasonic KX-P11?? series printer

Of course there are no universal printer escape codes, that is why WP 5.1 came with 4592 different printer drivers.

For some time the Epson printer codes were a more or less de facto industry standard. The more common might work for the Panasonic as well.
http://webpages.charter.net/dperr/links/esc_p83.htm

jlinkels

And the solution is...?

jlinkels

your link
the printer responded properly to most of the commands

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jlinkels

While drivers are needed for corect printing in a windowing environment, at the lower level, they program sends codes (escape codes) to the printer.

In early dot matrix printers, there used to be 2 standards.
An EPSON standard and an <EscP> standard.

For example basic.chr(15) always set the printer into compressed mode and chr(18) reset it to he default power on seting. This worked for all dot printers (IBM, EPSON, TI etc).

Having said that, why bother to get an old (generic) set of commands when straight googling for KX-P11 auto completed as KX-P1150 and gave me the following two links - among others with a recommended driver "eps9hih" - which itself seems a generic driver.

http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_pr...sonic-KX-P1150

http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_dr...sonic-KX-P1150

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i am not looking for a driver
i was looking for a way to drive it manually
thru /dev/lp0 *N*X or LPT1 on dos.