lpd remote on xp

George Gallen Tue, 10 Oct 2006 09:46:45 -0700

Here in lies my confusion..

how do I print raw PCL? Does the driver support raw PCL and rasterize it appropriately? (HPLIP that is), and then forward that
to the HP printer via windows LPD daemon (which sends what it gets direct to the printer bypassing the driver if need be).

and why would it work one minute, then 5 minutes later it doesn't work? (that is sending raw PCL to the printer works fine,
I'm not doing graphics, just postiioning, font size and such...

Thanks
George

Subject: RE: [Hplip-help] hp1012/fedora 3/lpd remote on xp
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 10:34:53 -0500
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The LJ1012 is a host-based raster printer and does not support any PCL commands.

You have to use the HPLIP driver on Linux and Windows LJ1012 driver on XP.

Hope this helps.

Raghu

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Sent: Monday, October 09, 2006 7:40 PM
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Subject: [Hplip-help] hp1012/fedora 3/lpd remote on xp

I'm running Fedora 3 with cups.

I have an HP1012 hooked up to my win XP machine (runs great).

I'm running an lpd daemon on my XP machine which will send raw data to the printer

    or it will send it using the HP windows drivers.

My application puts out pure PCL5 to cups which isn't using any filters,

   hands it off to my windows lpd daemon, which in turn sends it to the hp1012.

works great, then I get the Unsupported Personality: PCL error at times.

I understand the printer is a host based printer. But why does it work one minute

   and give me the error the next?

OK. Now. I installed the hplip on my FC3 machine. Now what? Will it take in PCL5

    and send that to the printer to function properly?

Or do I need to envelope my PCL5 job within PJL codes?

I'm not using anything fancy, ESC E - set for portrait - set font 8U and the top and left margins

the job is just cursor positioning and font size setting. Then print ASCII text. No graphics.

Do I need HPLIP? to send PCL5 to this printer?

I've tried using the LPD daemon to send using the windows driver, but sending PCL5 into a windows

driver doesn't get me anywhere.

I don't think the problem is the daemon, which works great on other non host based printers, I'd

prefer not to change all my applications to spit out Postscript so I can go through ghostscript.

Thanks for any input on this issue.

George

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