(Copy) HP 400M401N

[Jim Asman]

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At 12:54P Wed Oct 16 2013, Jean-Pierre A. Radley wrote:

> This Is A Copy Of A Message Forwarded To "jlasman52 at gmail.com".
> 
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> A client running filePro on OSR 6 had one of its printers die.
> An Hp LaserJet 400M401N is now on order.  In an HP spec sheet, I see
> it supports this set pf printer languages:
> 
>    PCL 5e, PCL6, Postscript Level 3 emulation, directPDF(v1.7) printing.
> 
> I think that PCL 5e should accept the filePro's pcl3 output, yes?
> 
> If not, it's easy enough to use the pcl6 program to translate filePro's
> pcl3 output to PS or PDF.
> 
> But I'm a tad concerned about that word 'emulation' attached to the
> listing of Postscript, and why does HP specify 'directPDF'(one word
> just as I've given it) instead of just PDF?
> 

It should work just fine.

The postscript is called an emulation because it isn't genuine Adobe.

I believe directPDF means that you can literally send a PDF file directly
to the printer, and the printer internally will do the necessary conversion
to PCL.


internally.


Jim 
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