Printer compatibility

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Kenneth Brody propounded (on Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 03:57:40PM -0400):
| On 9/20/2011 3:41 PM, 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?
| 
| According to the UPD FAQ:
| 
| http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01366409/c01366409.pdf
| 
| It appears that UPD is simply their way of putting drivers for all of their 
| printers in a single "universal print driver".  The fact that the printer 
| specs say "UPD (HP PCL5e)" seems to imply (to me, at least) that the printer 
| accepts PCL5e, and that you can use HP's UPD driver for Windows.
| 
| Also, the printer manual:
| 
| http://bizsupport2.austin.hp.com/bc/docs/support/SupportManual/c01550183/c01550183.pdf
| 
| > The HP LaserJet P2030 Series comes with software and installers for
| > Windows and Apple Computer, Inc., Macintosh systems. LINUX and UNIX
| > systems support the product, and software is available on the Web.
| 
| as well as:
| 
| > You can also print to the product from any operating system that
| > complies with the PCL command language, such as OS2, UNIX, or Linux
| > systems.
| 
| It would be nice, of course, if the specs simply listed "PCL5e" as one of 
| the supported languages, rather than cloaking it with "UPD".


I should back up a bit.  Someone has tried to use this printer on SCO
5.0.7, using netcat, and is getting no output.

-- 
JP