Wow, Bruce. What kind of an advantage did they think THAT would be? Why take away that functionality?
Albert: When I got a windows 8, I was surprised at how easily all my programs and hardware came over... EXCEPT my HP laser. It took 6 months after I got the laptop for them to come out with a driver (which was >1 year after windows 8 was announced). Karen -----Original Message----- From: Albert Berry <[email protected]> To: RBASE-L Mailing List <[email protected]> Sent: Tue, Feb 25, 2014 10:05 am Subject: [RBASE-L] - Re: OT: HP Printer Control Explained And for those considering an upgrade of their operating system, my HP laser won't work with any OS later than XP SP3. To print I have to use a virtual machine. Luckily, in a manner of speaking, I have some old programs that I use and installed Win 7 Pro which supports the VM. It is a hassle to work with, though. Albert On 2/25/2014 7:45 AM, Bruce A. Chitiea wrote: > All: > > I offer this forum response to anyone wrestling with printer control issues. > > Bruce Chitiea > > "The LaserJet P1606dn printer is a host-based device (see > http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c0199 > 5860 ). > > "This means that it doesn't understand any of the traditional Page > Description Languages (PDLs) - PCL5, PCL6 (a.k.a. PCL XL) or PostScript - as > used on more expensive models. > > "Host-based devices use proprietary (not published) languages which vary > from model to model and manufacturer to manufacturer. > > "I think that with many of the HP models, the language is known as JetReady, > which is (loosely) based on a (very) stripped down variant of PCL XL; most > of the fomatting is done of the host workstation (hence the name), with > everything (text & images) converted to encapsulated, compressed raster > images; the interpreter in the printer just unencapsulates and uncompresses > these images, and prints the resultant dots. > > "Note that even of the printer supported the standard PCL6 (PCL XL) PDL, it > is exceedingly difficult (in most cases impossible) to inject anything (such > as your 'page ejects') into the stream generated by the driver, due to the > highly structured nature of this PDL. > > >
