Printer compatibility

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Tue, 20 Sep 2011, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:

> I'm looking at a spec sheet for the HP LaserJet P2035n Printer, and read:
> 
> 	Standard Printer Languages:  Host Based, UPD (HP PCL5e)
> 
> Does that imply that it will only work on Windows?  IOW, you could
> generate PCL3 or PCL5 codes, as filePro has been doing forever, but it
> would have to be interpreted by HP's UPD driver, which doesn't run on
> Unix/Linux?

I'm a little mystified by that. I presume UPD is Universal Printer Driver. 
But I've never been aware of the printer driver interpreting PCL codes.

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