Jim: Thanks for your input. This is a brand new printer, installed with drivers that came with it, then I downloaded latest drivers from hp, because it would not install on my vista laptop. When I print a report on it, all the text, at least, prints, but the fonts are completely screwed up. I.E.. instead of compressed, they show up large and bold and other variations. My code was written to output to HPIII printers, which I believe is PCL 5. I actually have not installed the latest downloaded driver on my xp box, where jbase resides and will try that. My next plan of action is to attempt to install a package from a company called pagetech. At first glance, they appear to have a software package that includes a printer driver that replaces the normal printer driver, and intercepts the pcl output, and converst is to a "windows" format, and then sends on to the printer. If this works, it would be a saviour, since one would not have to purchase lazer printers for the pcl. Although, a small company, can get by with a relatively inexpensive lazer now. I am attempting this whole thing because I have pretty much retired now and still like to dabble, but thought it would be really convenient if I could have just one printer in my home office that would cover all the bases of color printing, running as a network printer, so I don't need a dedicated computer to run it, and of course print my jbase stuff. Dave
Subject: Re: jbase 3.4x, printersFrom: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Sat, 29 Nov 2008 09:58:16 -0800On Thu, 2008-11-27 at 13:21 -0600, David Grenfell wrote: Gentlemen: I recentlry acquired an HP K5400 printer. Specs say it has PCL 5 compatibility, so I assumed I would be able to swap out my old HP III and replace it with this one. Well..... I do see all the text that I am sending, but the fonts, etc are right out to lunch. I get large bold characters where I should be getting compressed etc. Is this GUI pcl, not compatible with the original pcl ? As always, any help is appreciated.David,I suspect that either this is one of those "Windows only" printers that has a weak printer driver, or that you actually need to delete the old drivers and install the drivers that specifically are for K5400. Obviously delete the old printer and add the new one, then make sure that your printer device is specified according to the new printer name etc.Jim _________________________________________________________________ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Please read the posting guidelines at: http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE/web/Posting%20Guidelines IMPORTANT: Type T24: at the start of the subject line for questions specific to Globus/T24 To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jBASE?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
