FP MF Laser Printers

[Kenneth Brody]

On 1/9/2017 1:14 PM, Jim Asman via Filepro-list wrote:
> --------------- Original Message ---------------
> At 12:47P Mon Jan 09 2017, Jose Lerebours via Filepro-list wrote:
>> On 01/09/2017 12:43 PM, Jean-Pierre Radley via Filepro-list wrote:
>>> Wayne Smith averred (on Sun, Jan 08, 2017 at 06:15:56AM -0500):
>>> | Surprise,  I had to call SE Asia to talk to a Dell Tech. to find out the
>>> | Dell Laser E514DW MF printer has in it  PCL 6.  ("Laser Technology" in
>>> | Specs).  I ran right down to Staples and bought one to try for the
[...]
>>> Of what use with filePro is a PCL 6 printer?
>>>
>> What happens if you send an HPGL document to a printer that is not PCL6
>> compatible?
>
> PCL6 knows nothing about HP-GL/2, only PCL5. PCL6, as JP says, has little
> redeeming value in the filePro environment.
>
> If these printers are working for Wayne, then they obviously support
> languages other that PCL6.

Of course, you could just use filePro's PDF output, in which case PCL6 (or 
even the dreaded "host-based") is just fine.

Unless, of course, your processing generates PCL codes on the fly.

-- 
Kenneth Brody