And for those considering an upgrade of their operating system, my HP
laser won't work with any OS later than XP SP3. To print I have to use a
virtual machine. Luckily, in a manner of speaking, I have some old
programs that I use and installed Win 7 Pro which supports the VM. It is
a hassle to work with, though.
Albert
On 2/25/2014 7:45 AM, Bruce A. Chitiea wrote:
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.
