On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:18 AM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 1 May 2009 08:28:20 -0700 (PDT) > Rich Shepard <[email protected]> dijo: > >> On Fri, 1 May 2009, Pete Lancashire wrote: >> >> > I have a similar problem with a 4V the one that lets me >> > print up to 11 x 17 paper. Could be a great use for SBC >> > as both a print spooler and PS->PCL translator. >> >> I wonder if this is why my LJ5 can no longer print from the command line >> using lpr. I can print from applications such as gv, xpdf, acroread but not >> directly. >> >> Bought this printer in '97 and added more RAM, a PS module, and a >> duplexer. It's a great workhorse of a printer. > > The LJ5 can also use the PCL and foomatic drivers. In fact, I don't > know of any HP printer that cannot use PCL drivers. As far as I know, > HP created the PCL drivers in order to avoid having to pay Adobe, > Xionics or others license fees for PostScript. Thus, if it's an HP > printer, it has PCL capability.
A number of smaller HP laser printers use "host-based" schemes, and don't support PCL. Here's a few from the OpenPrinting database, by driver: foo2hp: HP Color LaserJet 1600 HP Color LaserJet 2600n HP Color LaserJet CP1215 foo2zjs: HP LaserJet 1000 HP LaserJet 1005 HP LaserJet 1018 HP LaserJet 1020 HP LaserJet 1022 foo2oak: HP Color LaserJet 1500 foo2xqx: HP LaserJet M1005 MFP HP LaserJet M1120 MFP HP LaserJet P1005 HP LaserJet P1006 HP LaserJet P1007 HP LaserJet P1008 HP LaserJet P1505 HP LaserJet P2014 -- Dan Young _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
