OT - HP Printer

[Brian K. White]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Wayne Smith" <SmittyUSN1 at BellSouth.net>
To: <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2006 7:55 PM
Subject: Re: OT - HP Printer


I guess the list fairys  asleep today.

Clipped out of  HP SPECs for the  HP COLOR laserjet 2800

  Print languages, std.
HP PCL 6, HP Postscript Level 3 emulation, PostScript Printer Description
(PPD)

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Maybe the list fairy isn't commenting on this printer because the list fairy 
knows the one most important thing everyone should know, which is know when 
you don't know.

That page, nor any other I found so far says anything that allows anyone to 
claim this would work (work well anyways) with filepro. Because pcl6 is not 
useful to us, and pcl6 does not automatically imply pcl5 which is useful to 
us. postscript can be generated from fp but not conveniently, and we can't 
be sure the printer itself even has the actual ps engine in 
hardware/firmware, and plain text isn't featureful enough to warrant "Thats 
a great printer!"

Some printers that have pcl6 do also have pcl5, and it's possible that the 
pcl5 just isnt advertized. But it's unlikely. HP's site in particular has 
always been clear about that so far.
Regardless, Likely or not, it still means someone has to find out first hand 
before anyone can recommend it.

So, are you saying you have one of these and it worked from filepro and 
rendered at least a good subset of pcl3 4 or 5 codes?
Or are you just blathering about stuff you don't know anything about?
If he ran out and bought one based on your unhesitating encouragement, and 
it turned out to be a dud, would you buy it from him, including shipping? 
Compensate hime even further for wasting his time and that of his employees? 
Pay the consultant he hires to figure it out after he gives up after 
fighting with it himself a while?

"...list fairy" don't you know any other songs? I offer myself, pick on me 
for a while. I'm sure I can provide lots of material to work with.
Not because anyone else is even slightly bothered by such a silly attack, 
repeated for how many months now? I think it's actually crossed over to 
years.
No, purely for the sake my own boredom.

Brian K. White  --  brian at aljex.com  --  http://www.aljex.com/bkw/
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