<div dir="ltr"><div>Well - I got the new printer today - the L2740 and it was plug and play - which is great because I really didn't have time to do any of these type shenanigans for what will be a fairly lightly used printer....on to bigger and better things now</div><div>thanks to all that replied.....</div><div>Scott</div><div>PDM</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 17, 2017 at 10:48 PM, Bill Campbell via Filepro-list <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:filepro-list@lists.celestial.com" target="_blank">filepro-list@lists.celestial.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On Wed, May 17, 2017, Bob Rasmussen via Filepro-list wrote:<br>
>See bottom post.<br>
><br>
...<br>
<span>>> But, it's not really true to say "linux can print to this printer but<br>
>> filepro can't?" No. filepro can actually print to a pcl6 or gdi printer<br>
>> exactly as well as any other linux application, because none of them<br>
>> prints to those printers either. They are all printing PS or PDF or plain<br>
>> text, and cups is converting on the fly. It could do exactly the same for<br>
>> PCL and it wouldn't be any different.<br>
>><br>
>> --<br>
>> bkw<br>
><br>
>Brian, I think you're saying filepro PCL printing on Linux could be MADE to<br>
>work, theoretically, NOT that it DOES work. Am I right? If so, let me point<br>
>out that writing a PCL to PS (or to PDF) translator is a very large<br>
>undertaking.<br>
<br>
</span>It's fairly easy using ghostpdl. I've used that to go from my<br>
generic print codes to PDF for printing easily to Macs where they<br>
really like PDF files. My accounting software generates output<br>
with generic codes I've designed when go through a filter to<br>
conver to PCL then send that to pcl6.<br>
<br>
Bill<br>
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