Windows 10 SCO Filepro issue

[Rod Caddy]

On 11/1/2018 12:59 AM, Brian White via Filepro-list wrote:
> Absolutely. What Bob & Mark said.
>
> Filepro is being told to send print data to the terminal, "in-band", via
> passthrough-print terminal control codes, in both cases. There is no
> question about that (now).
>
> So now it's no mystery at all that the Win10 box behaves differentlu. Any
> two machines, regardless of OS or terminal software could do entirely
> different things with that print data, all depending on the configuration
> of the terminal emulator app, and the capabilities and confinguration of
> the printer driver in the client/desktop OS. Even two identical Win7
> machines would behave different if you had installed different printer
> drivers on each.
>
> In this case, the next thing to look at is, in the terminal emulator on the
> Win10 box, what printer is it configured to use? Is that printer capable of
> interpreting pcl5? Does it even let you specify a printer or is it just
> using whatever is the Windows default printer?
>
> What is the name of the printer driver used for that same printer on the
> Win7 boxes? What is the name of the printer driver for that printer on the
> Win10 box? I bet one or the other names will be enlightening.
>
> (I'm not sure where to find the name of an installed printer driver in each
> OS off-hand, sorry. I know there is a name you can see when you are
> selecting a driver to install in the first place, and for HP there is
> sometimes 2 or 3 variants, and the name will include (PCL5) or (PCL6) or
> (PS) or something else. Not always but often. It's just a thing HP does.
> And, the same choices might not be available for Win10 vs Win7 vs any other
> OS. Maybe HP made a pcl5 driver for win7 and never made one for win10. Just
> like they probably didn't make any driver at all for XP if it's a recent
> printer. They don't necessarily offer the same of everything for every OS.
>
> Or maybe you have some older generic laserjet driver installed on the win7
> machines instead of one specifically for this exact model, and on the win10
> box you have a new official normal proper driver for this printer
> specifically.
>
> There's all kinds of different  ways to get different results on different
> clients, now that we know it IS in fact printing through the client.
>
> But on the flip side, now that we do know that, we also know what you need
> to look at in order to make it do what you want.
>
> You can investigate possible raw print data options in the printer driver
> and/or in the windows print spooler (assuming the printer actually supports
> pcl5 instead of getting fake pcl5 support via the printer driver doing it
> on the sly).
>
> You can look into possible variant versions of the printer driver that
> might provide that pcl5 support.
>
> You might also try installing some old generic plain laserjet driver, like
> a windows built-in lj5 driver. It could be an extra driver pointing to the
> same printer just for the terminal emulator to use, and the other apps on
> the desktop can still use the official driver.
>
> You can comment out PFPT in .profile and not even use passthrough. Then H
> hardcopy would go directly from the fp binary to the command shown in
> printer8, without going through the Win10 box.
>
> You can use a different emulator that has it's own pcl renderer for
> passthrough printing, since one happens to exist. (anziowin)
>
> Mostly repeating what I already said, sorry.

Brian, Please ignore my last email back, got ahead of myself.

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