OT - PCL5e printer language

[Barry Wiseman]

Jim Asman wrote:
> --------------- Original Message ---------------
> At 03:34P Tue Oct 21 2008, Barry Wiseman wrote:
> 
>> Don Coleman wrote:
>>> I just completed a live chat session with H-P sales.  My chat partner just
>>> told me they no longer offer any LaserJets that can print from MS-DOS.  I
>>> have a client with a legacy DOS application (HUD) that requires this.  I
>>> noted the H-P P2015 offers PCL5e.  Was she wrong and can anyone tell me if
>>> MS-DOS can print to this printer?
>> PCL5e is a sort of "PCL5 lite" and does not support most of the normal 
>> PCL5 fonts.  This was just discussed on this list the other day.  Ken 
>> White posted the following information:
>>
> 
> NO! NO!
> 
> PCL5e is enhanced PCL5 as was reflected in the change from the
> LJ3 to LJ4. It is NOT a "light" version. All the upper end monochrome
> laserjets are PCL5e.
> 

So the elimination of font support is actually unrelated to the flavor 
of PCL5 that the printer comes with?  I remembered first seeing these 
font-challenged printers (the first I encountered was a color laserjet) 
concurrent with the rollout of PCL5e.