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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 11/1/2018 12:59 AM, Brian White via
Filepro-list wrote:<br>
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<pre wrap="">Absolutely. What Bob & Mark said.
Filepro is being told to send print data to the terminal, "in-band", via
passthrough-print terminal control codes, in both cases. There is no
question about that (now).
So now it's no mystery at all that the Win10 box behaves differentlu. Any
two machines, regardless of OS or terminal software could do entirely
different things with that print data, all depending on the configuration
of the terminal emulator app, and the capabilities and confinguration of
the printer driver in the client/desktop OS. Even two identical Win7
machines would behave different if you had installed different printer
drivers on each.
In this case, the next thing to look at is, in the terminal emulator on the
Win10 box, what printer is it configured to use? Is that printer capable of
interpreting pcl5? Does it even let you specify a printer or is it just
using whatever is the Windows default printer?
What is the name of the printer driver used for that same printer on the
Win7 boxes? What is the name of the printer driver for that printer on the
Win10 box? I bet one or the other names will be enlightening.
(I'm not sure where to find the name of an installed printer driver in each
OS off-hand, sorry. I know there is a name you can see when you are
selecting a driver to install in the first place, and for HP there is
sometimes 2 or 3 variants, and the name will include (PCL5) or (PCL6) or
(PS) or something else. Not always but often. It's just a thing HP does.
And, the same choices might not be available for Win10 vs Win7 vs any other
OS. Maybe HP made a pcl5 driver for win7 and never made one for win10. Just
like they probably didn't make any driver at all for XP if it's a recent
printer. They don't necessarily offer the same of everything for every OS.
Or maybe you have some older generic laserjet driver installed on the win7
machines instead of one specifically for this exact model, and on the win10
box you have a new official normal proper driver for this printer
specifically.
There's all kinds of different ways to get different results on different
clients, now that we know it IS in fact printing through the client.
But on the flip side, now that we do know that, we also know what you need
to look at in order to make it do what you want.
You can investigate possible raw print data options in the printer driver
and/or in the windows print spooler (assuming the printer actually supports
pcl5 instead of getting fake pcl5 support via the printer driver doing it
on the sly).
You can look into possible variant versions of the printer driver that
might provide that pcl5 support.
You might also try installing some old generic plain laserjet driver, like
a windows built-in lj5 driver. It could be an extra driver pointing to the
same printer just for the terminal emulator to use, and the other apps on
the desktop can still use the official driver.
You can comment out PFPT in .profile and not even use passthrough. Then H
hardcopy would go directly from the fp binary to the command shown in
printer8, without going through the Win10 box.
You can use a different emulator that has it's own pcl renderer for
passthrough printing, since one happens to exist. (anziowin)
Mostly repeating what I already said, sorry.
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<p><font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">Brian, Please ignore my
last email back, got ahead of myself.</font><br>
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