PCL 5 Printers

[Richard Kreiss]

Mark,

You are correct. For know most printers support PDF printing. All print jobs go through the print driver.  One needs to output in a format supported by the driver being used.  

Richard Kreiss
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Richard
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> On May 18, 2021, at 10:09 PM, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
> 
> Mark,
> 
> I think you are missing the point - PDF (portable) is ideal (I think) since user is likely using
> a windows, mac or linux based work station which likely has a browser that will open the PDF
> document natively and provide printing option to a printer of choice.
> 
> I cannot think of a better document format to generate a report (other than the some times
> bloated size, depending on how it is rendered).  They can even email it at that point or save it
> in a repository and share it via any of the many means now available for sharing documents
> across enterprise or anyone you have bothered to share your documents with.
> 
> 
>> On 5/18/21 9:44 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
>> You're obsessed with PDF.  PDF is not a native printer language.  Unless
>> they started adding it.  It's a document format which still needs to go
>> through a printer...with a driver.
>> 
>> m->
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, May 18, 2021 at 07:30:21PM -0400, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list thus spoke:
>>> On 5/18/21 6:49 PM, Fairlight via Filepro-list wrote:
>>>> 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?
>>> Agree!
>>> 
>>> You do not even have to write a driver, Python, PHP or Perl scripts can be
>>> written to take
>>> any report and push it in PDF.
>>> 
>>> Should be relatively simple to call said script passing to it the source
>>> file (report.txt) and get it back in PDF as report.pdf
>>> 
>>> $$$ is always an issue - hence the reason I do not have millions saved, if I
>>> have a problem, I like to solve it and not let $$$
>>> dictate if I should live with it or not.
>>> 
>>> Of course, if money does keep me from "having an expert" take care of it, I
>>> hit the keyboard and start hacking till I get it!
>>> 
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