Robin: Half of our client's HP printers are installed with PCL6 onto Windows servers. Our PCL5 print jobs (including forms with HP-GL/2) haven't had any problem printing to those printers. I haven't been paying much attention to this because it hasn't been a problem.
Do you think this is strictly a ..nix problem or am I missing something on Windows? Thanks, Bill >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-u2- >[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Robin Smith >Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 2:37 AM >To: [email protected] >Subject: RE: [U2] HP Laserjets and AIX/Unix > >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/ ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
