I agree with Jerry that it seems strange that HP would do this as they have their own *nix but Left Hand and Right Hand springs to mind!!
The problem is more fundamental as I see it. HP "in their infinite wisdom" have dropped PCL5 in favour of PCL6. This is fine if you are on Windows using the correct Windows printer drivers. However, if you live in the real world like a lot of us in the U2 arena and work on a flavour of Unix (AIX, HP, Linux etc) then we don't have Windows printer drivers. Also, if you use PCL5 escape sequences to format yur printing - this is how SB+ printing works - PCL6 doesn't understand the sequences. We have found that some HP printers that use PCL6 emulation "claim" to be backwards compatible to PCL5. BEWARE - this is often a very reduced version of PCL5 with only one or two fonts/typefaces supported and a reduced set of escape sequences. Also, if you use PCL5 sequences in the MS Windows environment (again SB+ does this) then the Windows PCL6 drivers don't recognise them. PCL6 is very similar to GDI using a graphical interface to the printers rather than ASCII characters that we are all used to. I have already logged a call with U2 support to get their take on this. Robin Smith Reflex Data Systems Ltd From: "JPB-U2UG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Seems strange that HP would have done that since they have their own 'nix, HP-UX. Jerry Banker Senior Programmer Analyst IBM Certified Solutions Expert - -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2008 9:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [U2] HP Laserjets and AIX/Unix Looks like HP has discontinued the 4240, 4250, 4350 LaserJets and their various tnd models and replaced them with various models P4014, P4015 and P4515 with some new letters. While we can still find leftovers of the old models, it is only a matter of time. The only Supported operating systems Windows 2000; Windows XP Home; Windows XP Professional; Windows Server 2003; Certified for Windows Vista(R); Mac OS X v 10.2; Mac OS X v 10.3 or higher No Unix or AIX. Nor Linux for that matter. Has anybody tried one of these printers with ##IX or Linux so far? Thanks. Roger Scanned by MailDefender - managed email security from intY - www.maildefender.net ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
