New printer prints blank pages

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

Well - I got the new printer today - the L2740 and it was plug and play -
which is great because I really didn't have time to do any of these type
shenanigans for what will be a fairly lightly used printer....on to bigger
and better things now
thanks to all that replied.....
Scott
PDM

On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:48 PM, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list <
filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:

> 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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