New printer prints blank pages

[Henry Melancon]

Thanks, Bob!

Henry

-----Original Message-----
From: Bob Rasmussen [mailto:ras at anzio.com] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 10:12 AM
To: Henry Melancon <hemelancon at gifinc.com>
Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
Subject: RE: New printer prints blank pages

On Wed, 17 May 2017, Henry Melancon via Filepro-list wrote:

> I often wondered why my HP Laser Jet 5550 and 8000 have "PCL6" in their descriptions shown in the Windows Print information of my computer.  They both, of course, print to FilePro just fine.

It's because what you see in the Windows description is the printer 
language that the Windows printer driver OUTPUTS. It may be one of several 
languages that the printer supports, which is why there are often multiple 
drivers available for the same printer.

Note that filePro uses the driver at a very low level, transparently, so 
the driver's output language is irrelevant. What's important is what the 
printer can understand.

> Henry W. Melancon
> Documentation Supervisor
> Quality Control
> Gulf Island LLC
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Filepro-list [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+hemelancon=gifinc.com at lists.celestial.com] On Behalf Of Jim Asman via Filepro-list
> Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 9:48 AM
> To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
> Subject: Re: New printer prints blank pages
>
>
>
> --------------- Original Message ---------------
> At 10:31A Wed May 17 2017, Bill Randall wrote:
>
>> Unless Jim knows something we don't,  PCL6 will not work directly with
> filePro
>
> Correct. PCL6 is "compiled" not interpreted like PCL5.
>
>>
>> This is from our website and manuals.
>>
>> Printers specs must support one of the following...
>>
>> PCL-3
>> PCL-5
>> PCL-5c
>> PCL-5d
>> PCL-5e
>>
>> ...to work with filePro directly.
>>
>
> Add PCL3+
>
> Delete PCL5d     No such animal AFAIK
>
>
>
> Jim
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