Looking for PCL5 printers that are not host-based GDI

Mike Schwartz mschw at athenet.net
Wed Apr 24 12:56:44 PDT 2013


> If the printer natively speaks PCL5, it WILL work with Linux et. al.
> 
> Now, I had a customer that purchased 700 Brother printers without testing.
> There was a happy ending to the story. The specs said it only supported
> PCL6, but it did support PCL5 as well. However, it did require a PJL
command
> at the head of the job to select PCL5.
> 
> Jim Asman

     Wow!  700 printers!  I'm trying not to get stuck with even 1 printer
that won't work...

      I'll file that PJL trick away in case I need it.  On the older Xerox
Phaser printers I had to include some PJL code into the init string to set
some parameters.

Thanks,

Mike
 

     






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