PCL 5 Printers

[Fairlight]

Everyone's thinking about it poorly.

The elegant solution to this problem is to write a pseudo-printer
driver.  Look at Nitro PDF...print directly to PDF.  That's a printer
driver.  There's no reason you can't write a driver to convert from PCL
5 to whatever the hell the new host-based printers use, and just use
that driver.  The architecture remains the same; you just switch
printers and use the correct driver for it.

All it takes is time and money.  That's the answer to every technical
question:  How much do you want to spend to make the problem go away?

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On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 10:25:25PM +0000, Richard Kreiss via Filepro-list
thus spoke:
> The issue is the cost of a replacement printer is lower then the cost
> of upgrading to the latest version of filePro and paying to have
> outputs converted to a PDF.  Tis is true if one is using Printwizard or
> filePro's PDF routines.  Printwizard is faster to implement but I would
> suggest purchasing the server addition as it has more features(Windows
> Version). Not sure what the *nix version includes.
>
> There are some inkjet printers out there that support PCL3.  This may
> work for you.
>
>
> Richard Kreiss GCC Consulting
>
>
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message----- From: Filepro-list
> > <filepro-list-bounces+rkreiss=verizon.net at lists.celestial.com> On
> > Behalf Of Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list Sent: Monday, May 17, 2021
> > 7:42 PM To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com Subject: Re: PCL 5
> > Printers
> >
> > Wouldn't the logical thing to do be use the PDF features now available
> > natively (I think) to filePro?
> >
> > Eventually, you will run out of OLD PRINTERS and people that have them
> > - perhaps, it will be some one else's problem down the road but why
> > kick the can down the road !?!
> >
> > We asked for PDF in filePro and then refuse to use it - or is it cost
> > of upgrading the problem?
> >
> > Gees, even if you buy ANZIO version that allows you to pass-through
> > and print directly to PDF, you should be able to just go that route
> > and know that you have a permanent solution and no need to worry about
> > legacy technology (lol, even if filePro itself is a legacy tech ...).
> >
> > All that being said, we can talk about writing PHP scripts to generate
> > your reports in PDF format! ;-)
> >
> >
> > On 5/17/21 6:44 PM, Laura Brody via Filepro-list wrote:
> >
> > > I know for a fact that you can buy almost anything from eBay. If you
> > > don't mind that the printer is used rather than new, it is an option.
> > >
> > > Craigslist and Facebook Marketplace are other possibilities.
> > >
> > > Laura Brody
> > >
> > > On Mon, May 17, 2021 at 5:30 PM Cindy Youngman via Filepro-list <
> > > filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hi everyone,
> > >>
> > >> I've been using Jim Asman's mkpcl for years to convert pcx to pcl
> > >> for printing forms under 5.0.14 using the old HP-4500 printer
> > >> definitions.  They work great and have had no problems.
> > >>
> > >> The problem is I am having trouble finding replacement printers that
> > >> have PCL5 print language.  Might anyone know of any models that
> > >> still have the good old PCL5?
> > >>
> > >> Thanks in advance
> > >>
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