New printer prints blank pages

[Bill Campbell]

On Wed, May 17, 2017, Bob Rasmussen via Filepro-list wrote:
>See bottom post.
>
...
>> But, it's not really true to say "linux can print to this printer but
>> filepro can't?" No. filepro can actually print to a pcl6 or gdi printer
>> exactly as well as any other linux application, because none of them
>> prints to those printers either. They are all printing PS or PDF or plain
>> text, and cups is converting on the fly. It could do exactly the same for
>> PCL and it wouldn't be any different.
>> 
>> -- 
>> bkw
>
>Brian, I think you're saying filepro PCL printing on Linux could be MADE to
>work, theoretically, NOT that it DOES work. Am I right? If so, let me point
>out that writing a PCL to PS (or to PDF) translator is a very large
>undertaking.

It's fairly easy using ghostpdl.  I've used that to go from my
generic print codes to PDF for printing easily to Macs where they
really like PDF files.  My accounting software generates output
with generic codes I've designed when go through a filter to
conver to PCL then send that to pcl6. 

Bill
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