All: I offer this forum response to anyone wrestling with printer control issues.
Bruce Chitiea "The LaserJet P1606dn printer is a host-based device (see http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?cc=us&lc=en&dlc=en&docname=c0199 5860 ). "This means that it doesn't understand any of the traditional Page Description Languages (PDLs) - PCL5, PCL6 (a.k.a. PCL XL) or PostScript - as used on more expensive models. "Host-based devices use proprietary (not published) languages which vary from model to model and manufacturer to manufacturer. "I think that with many of the HP models, the language is known as JetReady, which is (loosely) based on a (very) stripped down variant of PCL XL; most of the fomatting is done of the host workstation (hence the name), with everything (text & images) converted to encapsulated, compressed raster images; the interpreter in the printer just unencapsulates and uncompresses these images, and prints the resultant dots. "Note that even of the printer supported the standard PCL6 (PCL XL) PDL, it is exceedingly difficult (in most cases impossible) to inject anything (such as your 'page ejects') into the stream generated by the driver, due to the highly structured nature of this PDL. --- RBASE-L ================================================ TO POST A MESSAGE TO ALL MEMBERS: Send a plain text email to [email protected] (Don't use any of these words as your Subject: INTRO, SUBSCRIBE, UNSUBSCRIBE, SEARCH, REMOVE, SUSPEND, RESUME, DIGEST, RESEND, HELP) ================================================ TO SEE MESSAGE POSTING GUIDELINES: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: INTRO ================================================ TO UNSUBSCRIBE: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: UNSUBSCRIBE ================================================ TO SEARCH ARCHIVES: Send a plain text email to [email protected] In the message SUBJECT, put just one word: SEARCH-n (where n is the number of days). In the message body, place any text to search for. ================================================
