Correct, it is rendered as PCL 5, but it seems almost all of the Deskjets
only go up to PCL 3. I have a Deskjet 820 that has a pretty good result
from the same document. HP told me that the older printers can't adapt as
well as the newer ones to the more complex PCL.
-Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: Jeremias Maerki [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2001 9:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: PCL Problems on HP Deskjet 400
I've had a quick look at the HP website. Your DJ 400 is a PCL 3 printer.
Art Welch said the PCL renderer produces PCL5, so this might actually be
the real problem.
Concerning my comment about banding, unfortunately, I haven't found any
information at the HP website.
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001 08:44:55 -0400 avespa wrote:
> Interesting.... how might I go about testing this? Could I change the
> renderer and how would I do it? Could I test this by re-arranging PCL
code
> in the document I produce?
>
> I render an XML stream into a PCL document, then I send it to the printer
in
> a separate step. How could I 'band' this?
>
> -Tony
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeremias Maerki
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: 9/13/01 2:34 AM
> Subject: Re: PCL Problems on HP Deskjet 400
>
> Hi
>
> I don't know much about PCL, but I know this: PCL laser printers usually
> build a whole page in memory and then print it to paper. They normally
> have a decent amount of memory. Especially older ink jet printers like
> yours only have a small buffer, so the page has to be delivered in bands
> (I think). That's probably what causes your problems. Maybe the PCL
> renderer would have to be changed so it can output a page as a sequence
> of bands. To visualize, see here:
>
> +---------+
> | Band 1 |
> +---------+
> | Band 2 |
> +---------+
> | Band 4 |
> +---------+
> | etc. |
> +---------+
> | |
> +---------+
>
> I think this is really what messes up your headers and footers.
>
> On Wed, 12 Sep 2001 17:32:48 -0400 avespa wrote:
> >
> > Question - I am testing a PCL generated file on an HP DeskJet 400
> Printer,
> > circa 1995 with Windows 95. I am seeing rather funky behavior, with
> the
> > headers and footers being messed up (it looks like a few of the lines
> were
> > written and then written over - perhaps a page break issue in our
> XSL)- our
> > XSL is quite heavy and complex, so I am not sure where to start. I am
> > wondering if I need to take the approach of looking at our XSL and
> seeing
> > where it can be tuned or tweaked to change this behavior, or do I need
> to go
> > to the PCL itself? I'm wondering if someone could nudge me in a
> certain
> > direction?
> >
> > The output looks fairly decent on an HP8000 or HP820. I called HP and
> they
> > weren't much help.
> >
> > Thanks for any help or input,
> >
> > Tony
> >
> >
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