Question Wake Printer

jshultz

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Our software does some measurement and then sends the output to our charting program. Right now it is taking 20-30 seconds for the results to print after our chart has sent the data to the printer since the printer is in sleep mode. What we are wanting to do is send a command to wake the printer at the end of our test, before it sends the results to the charting program, so the printer is (hopefully) done "waking up" by the time the chart program auto prints. We do not want to merely up the sleep mode timer because the printer tends to get quite warm after 10+ minutes and could cause overheating issues.

I have been looking around and haven't been able to find anything regarding this. The printer we are mainly using is a Brother HL 5250DN. I have contacted Brother but I have yet to hear anything back from them.

Any help would be much appreciated =-)
 
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