Printer compatibility

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Bob Rasmussen propounded (on Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 12:55:35PM -0700):
| 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.

Reading UPD docs doesn't help much:

	The HP Universal Print Driver supports PCL 5, PCL 6 and
	postscript emulation printer languages.

Supports???

-- 
JP