Ben--any chance you were using the PCL6 universal? After much troubleshooting since WS03 SP2 came out, we finally started using PCL5e for everything, and the universal one seems to work well too (as you mentioned, where you can use it). Certain models (LJ 4250, some 4200s) pretty much also required firmware updates. After those changes, we started doing okay again with the HPs we have.
Since changing to using PCL5e, we have as of yet for anyone to be missing a feature they need. For a few printers we use PS as well, but I'm pretty much avoiding the PCL6 drivers completely as we constantly get the "PCL XL" error pages for various reasons. Mail merge in excel will almost always set it off. -Bonnie -----Original Message----- From: Ben Scott [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 8:36 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: PRINT SERVER spooler On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 11:15 AM, Ziots, Edward <[email protected]> wrote: > You can always use the HP Universal Print drivers in those cases too.. We tried the HP Univ Print Driver and it killed half the HP printers in the place, including HP printers which were still on their own drivers because the universal driver didn't support them. They kept printing PCL job error pages instead of print jobs. We ended up hacking the HP LJ 4 driver that came with Windows XP into a generic PCL driver that seems to work with most HP printers. It's been stable. It is also fast, lightweight, and has a consistent UI across models, which is something I can't say for HP's own crap. I can post if people like. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
