Color Printing problem

[Richard Kreiss]

Purchased an HP 7740 OfficeJet Multifunction Printer.

The Print drive seemed to indicate that this was PCL-3 compatible - Drive Name HP OfficeJet 7740 series PCL-3

filePro could not print to this printer even though the print job went to the spooler and disappeared from the listing.

I printed out the Printer Test page which indicated it was using the above print driver
Data Format: RAW
Print Processor: winprint (seems to indicate this driver might as well be PCL-6)
Drive type: Type 4 - user mode

I then tried using the universal PCL5 print driver and that didn't work at all.  The test page printed out "junk"

I then installed the HP OfficeJet 7400 print driver.  This worked and filePro could print to the printer.
Print Processor: hpzppwn7
Drive Type: Type3 - user mode

Where my problem is, I have a report where I would like credit balances(negative numbers) to print in red.


1.      I am not sure which of the print tables to use for this printer.  I have tried HP-8XX and HP-2500 tables.

2.      I am using the following programming to change the color from black to red but it doesn't work.  The field is either blanked or still prints black.

::Ec(1,*,g)=chr("27")
::Am(len(5),edit(5))=5
: 5 lt ".00":qq(8,rj)=ec{"*r-3u"<ec{"v6S{am{ec{"r1u"{ec"*v1S" (using the HP-2500 print table
: 5 lt ".00":qq(8,rj)=ec{*v12S{am{ec{"v1S" (using the HP-8xx print table

In both cases I don't get the negative number in red.

What am I doing wrong?

Richard Kreiss





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