HP 1320 laser not printing from filepro

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rick Hane" <yoresoft at hotmail.com>
To: <filepro-list at seaslug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, July 13, 2005 2:47 PM
Subject: HP 1320 laser not printing from filepro


>I just rec'd a new printer, an HP 1320 (PCL 6) to replace my old trusty 
>HP-6P.

If it really was pcl6 only, then you'd be out of luck because pcl6 is a 
binary format nothing like 5 & lower, and not something your can make a 
print code table for.
You could use ghostscript or printwizard to translate but not print 
directly.

But luckily, as it happens a 1320 does understand pcl5 (& lower) also, 
because I've installed a few, several other customers have them now, and our 
own office uses one and they work perfectly using the hplaser print code 
table.
I haven't bothered to track down exactly which of the hp-xxx tables most 
closely matches. We pretty much just use hplaser everywhere and it works on 
most printers with the least grief.

I assume you meant laserjet 1320
there are at least a few duplicate hp model numbers where there is both a 
deskjet/officejet nnn and a laserjet nnn and the deskjet is an inkjet with 
no pcl engine.

> The printer is hung off of my lpt1 port.  fp will not print to it. I tried 
> dir>Prn from the dos prompt with no luck.  Anyone one have suggestions?  I 
> have payroll to print tomorrow am and the employees will simply not 
> understand a printer problem.

try LPT1 instead of PRN

try sending a FF or an <esc>E or both after the plain text data
try initializing the printer first since maybe the windows driver (which can 
use pcl6 if that's the version you chose to install)
may have left the printer in some mode where pcl5 is disabled
C:> copy CON LPT1
[Esc] E [Enter]
this is a test [Enter]
Ctrl-l [Esc] E [Enter]
Ctrl-z
C:>

Ctrl-lowercase-L is a hot-key, Esc E is not. Esc, then shift-e.
ignore the spaces except in "this is a test"

run "net use" to list the mapped virtual drives & lpt ports and make sure 
lpt1 isn't mapped to some network location

look in printers & faxes and make sure the printer hasn't been marked 
offline (not sure if that would affect a dos box or not but what the heck)

obviously delete the old printer and install the new driver, and along the 
way watch for the check-box about "use this printer from msdos?" if it asks 
say yes.

look in device manager and verify that the lpt port is both present and not 
X'd out


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