experience with Xerox Phaser 6180n & filepro

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 08:25P Thu Mar 01 2007, Mike Schwartz wrote:

> From: Kenneth Brody
> Quoting Jim Asman (Thu,  1 Mar 2007 16:45:13 -0800):
> 
> > --------------- Original Message ---------------
> > At 05:54P Thu Mar 01 2007, Tony Freehauf wrote:
> >
> > > hi experts
> > > anyone have a positive experience using a
> > > Xerox Phaser 6180n with filepro?
> > >           Specs say PCL 6 emulation
> > >
> >
> > In a filePro context, if it doesn't do PCL5 ***internally***,
> > don't touch it.
> 
> http://www.office.xerox.com/perl-bin/intpromo.pl?source=55448&id=6180n&slot=
> PRINT&uri=%2Findex.html
> 
>     Page Description Languages
> 
>         AdobeR PostScriptR 3™, PCLR 6 emulation
> 
> --
> 
>     It is the "internally" that got me wondering:  Does anybody know of any
> laser printers (color or black & white) that are "dumb" and depend on
> external drivers to do any printing at all, like most of the inkjets
> currently do?
> 
>     I always considered laser printers fairly safe, insofar as all the newer
> ones would handle at least PCL3 commands.
> 

Sure!

HP 10xx Lasers

HP 15xx Color Lasers for sure, 2500-2600 probably, and one or two
in the 3x00 series. I seem to recall Bob Repko got caught with one
of these. 

I'm sure there are more.



Jim 
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