New printer prints blank pages

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Wed, 17 May 2017, scooter6 at gmail.com wrote:

> So a GDI printer, while it can print a test page in Linux via CUPS, filePro
> is not able to send data to this type of printer successfully I assume is
> what you're saying?

Yes.

> On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 11:12 AM, Bob Rasmussen via Filepro-list
> <filepro-list at lists.celestial.com> wrote:
>       On Wed, 17 May 2017, Henry Melancon via Filepro-list wrote:
>
>             I often wondered why my HP Laser Jet 5550 and 8000
>             have "PCL6" in their descriptions shown in the
>             Windows Print information of my computer.  They
>             both, of course, print to FilePro just fine.
> 
>
>       It's because what you see in the Windows description is the
>       printer language that the Windows printer driver OUTPUTS. It may
>       be one of several languages that the printer supports, which is
>       why there are often multiple drivers available for the same
>       printer.
>
>       Note that filePro uses the driver at a very low level,
>       transparently, so the driver's output language is irrelevant.
>       What's important is what the printer can understand.
>
>             Henry W. Melancon
>             Documentation Supervisor
>             Quality Control
>             Gulf Island LLC
>
>             -----Original Message-----
>             From: Filepro-list
>             [mailto:filepro-list-bounces+hemelancon=gifinc.com at lists.celestial.com]
>             On Behalf Of Jim Asman via Filepro-list
>             Sent: Wednesday, May 17, 2017 9:48 AM
>             To: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com
>             Subject: Re: New printer prints blank pages
> 
> 
>
>             --------------- Original Message ---------------
>             At 10:31A Wed May 17 2017, Bill Randall wrote:
>
>                   Unless Jim knows something we don't, 
>                   PCL6 will not work directly with
>
>             filePro
>
>             Correct. PCL6 is "compiled" not interpreted like
>             PCL5.
> 
>
>                   This is from our website and manuals.
>
>                   Printers specs must support one of the
>                   following...
>
>                   PCL-3
>                   PCL-5
>                   PCL-5c
>                   PCL-5d
>                   PCL-5e
>
>                   ...to work with filePro directly.
> 
>
>             Add PCL3+
>
>             Delete PCL5d     No such animal AFAIK
> 
> 
>
>             Jim
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