Hello everybody, Some time ago I bought a HP Color LaserJet 8500DN with native postscript interpreter. Hoping to finally find a good, fast and accurate printer for Linux. On that time missing the knowledge about PCL XL and other imported things, and thought this printer would solve all my Linux printing problems.
However I spent so incredibility much time debugging why print jobs did not print correctly it was driving me to madness frequently. Recently I found the problem for many of my issues. The postscript interpreter in the printer is extremely unreliably. It can lockup the printer, it can say jobs are perfect completed when actually missing pages and talk about crc network packages errors, and a lot more annoying things. I even bought some new internal hardware to be sure the hardware was correct. My solution is to never use a postscript interpreter on the hardware of the printer again, and recommends a PCL (6) XL printer. The HP_Color_LaserJet_8500.ppd driver is unreliable and can drive people to madness. I now use the HP-Color_LaserJet_8500-hpijs.ppd driver. That does prints jobs that are failing with the postscript driver. However it is extremely slow. Yesterday I printed a 70 page job with in booklet duplex mode in color. I took from 19:30 until 22:30 (logs available on request). Is it possible to get this driver working faster? I also know the printer supports PCL 5c however I can't find a complete working driver available for my printer. (color, duplex, a3, left bin, tray 3) What are your thoughts about this? Best regards, from a sad and disappointed HP Color LaserJet 8500DN owner, but happy linux user... Jelle ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ HPLIP-Help mailing list HPLIP-Help@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hplip-help
