PCLm

[Jean-Pierre A. Radley]

Kenneth Brody propounded (on Tue, Mar 18, 2014 at 05:22:24PM -0400):
| On 3/18/2014 5:04 PM, Chris Rendall wrote:
| > I'm looking to purchase a multi-function HP LaserJet. I only need the
| > printing capability of the printer for filePro.
| >
| > One of the printers I'm looking at is a LaserJet Pro M127fn.  The specs
| > say the print language is PCLm/PCLmS.  I've never heard of these versions
| > of PCL before.  Does filePro work with PCLm?  I'm running filePro on
| > Linux.
| 
| I can find nothing about PCLm and PCLmS beyond other people asking "what is 
| it?"  All of the websites I could find with a history of PCL versions have 
| PCL1 through PCL6, but no PCLm.
| 
| It appears that the printer industry is getting even deeper into the "you 
| don't need to know that, just install our drivers and you'll be fine" mode.

Beats me, Ken, why you're at a dead end, 'cause I got a tad further:
it has something to do with printing over Wifi.  Google for 'mopria' and
for 'wifi alliance'.

If the printer doesn't list PCL5, I'd forget about it.

-- 
JP