Printer - HP LaserJet 3600

Jim Asman jlasman at telus.net
Sat Feb 18 09:53:35 PST 2006


--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 12:31P Sat Feb 18 2006, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 17, 2006 at 08:12:26PM -0800, Jim Asman wrote:
> > > Ok, clarification time: PCL6 is *not* a strict superset of PCL5?
> > 
> > NOT similar at all. Not related at all.
> > 
> > PCL6 is like assembled object code where PCL5 is interpreted escape
> > sequences.
> > 
> > PCL3 is a subset of PCL5, but PCL6 is "brave new world"...
> 
> Ah.
> 
> So, the really *important* part: do PCL 6 printers accept raw ascii
> text and print it?

Apparently, yes. But we need somebody to confirm this.

A customer of mine got a color 2550 and it printed her filePro output
in Courier, not the fancy text enjoyed on the LJ4.

We need someone with a PCL6 only printer to verify this.


Jim 
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