Printing using win:network-share-name...

[Bob Rasmussen]

Hi John, Bob Rasmussen here.

You're following multiple rabbit holes that are all dead ends, with the 
printer model you purchased (HP MFP M234DWE). It doesn't support PCL-5 and 
it doesn't support PDF, according to HP's webpage at

https://support.hp.com/us-en/product/hp-laserjet-mfp-m232e-m237e-printer-series/38099931/model/36120178/document/c06953407#AbT2

See also a question related to yours, and an answer (note the answerer 
says "interrupt" when he means "interpret") at:

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjghYuN68T7AhV9LzQIHZDsBIkQFnoECAgQAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fh30434.www3.hp.com%2Ft5%2FLaserJet-Printing%2FPCLms-Supports-PCL5-commands%2Ftd-p%2F6253366&usg=AOvVaw2biMtzoT3-9lWzDYSCE4nb

The only ways I could see using this printer for printing PCL output would 
involve some software piece on Windows that would use a Windows printer 
driver to talk to the printer. Print Wizard would be one option for that 
software, but I would not recommend it for your situation.

Find an available printer that can accept and interpret PCL-5.

(For an emergency solution, you could run a printfile through a PCL-to-PDF 
converter, move the PDF to a Windows machine, and use a program on Windows 
to print the PDF.)

Sorry about your injury with the door.

    ... Bob

On Wed, 23 Nov 2022, john--- via Filepro-list wrote:

>
> Can anyone refresh my memory about how to use this feature of filePro?  I
> would think I have to "share" the printer on the Windows side, and then list
> it as a network printer on the SCO side...   Then, wouldn't it send the
> document (a PDF) to the Windows printer/queue to wait its turn to use the
> actual Windows driver?  Since that prints PDFs fine, I'm thinking that might
> work...
>
> But, I don't remember the quirks, or gotcha's on using the win:sharename
> destination in the filePro print manager.  Nancy wrote something that
> mentioned it a while back, but it is lost in  the world's worst email filing
> system ever conceived... if I even saved it.  I don't think it had much
> other than mentioning the idea for using a brain-dead Windows PCL6 type
> printer.
>
> Is there something in the HELP file about it?  Wait let me check...
>
> Wow!  It is fun to read the 6.x Help file... I learned about 5 things I had
> never seen before.  However, mostly the help covered the PRINTER commands
> available on a prc table.
>
> I didn't catch anything about win:sharename
>
> And in case someone does know about using this destination.  Can I just say
> something like win:DEFAULT  and it will print through the queue for the
> Windows default printer whatever it is named or shared as?
>
> Thanks again...
>
> JJE
>
> /john
>
>
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