Fwd: fp and usb printer

[Jim Asman]

--------------- Original Message ---------------
At 09:50A Tue Oct 09 2007, Kenneth Brody wrote:

> Quoting Richard Hane (Tue, 9 Oct 2007 06:22:02 -0700 (PDT)):
> 
> >   Hi all,
> >
> >   We have filepro 1.0.13D09 ODBC network version on a Windows network.
> >
> >   I am trying to hook up a new HP2015dn printer to a workstation   
> > (not as a network printer).  I connects via usb not lpt1.
> >
> >   The priner works fine in all windows programs but I am having a   
> > problem with the post definition in printer maintenance.  How do I   
> > id the usb post?  I tried changing lpt1 to usb and that did nothing.
> 
> You can set the destination to "WIN:printername", where "printername"
> is the name exactly as Windows knows it.
> 
> However, you may have a secondary issue, and that is many inexpensive
> USB printers are "host-based", formerly known as "Windows-only".  These
> printers have no brains on them beyond "put a dot of ink on the paper
> and move the print head".  (They can't even print the letter "A" without
> the host computer generating a picture of the letter "A" and sending
> that picture to the printer.)  If that's the case, then you can't use
> any of the "normal" print code tables in filePro.  filePro 5.6 includes
> a table "fp2rtf", which generates an RTF file which can then be printed
> via another program (one such program is included with 5.6).  I do not
> know if fPODBC 1.0 supports this.
> 
> What is the make/model of the printer?

He said it was a HP 2015.

It IS a PCL5 printer.

It has a very limited set of internal fonts.

You get what you pay for.

Get the 3005 instead.


Jim 
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