pcl drivers missing in cups?

bmellen at gmodal.com bmellen at gmodal.com
Mon Jun 28 11:22:02 PDT 2004


Did you ever get cups to print pcl?
Simon Oosthoek wrote:
> Replying to myself, clarifying my ignorance ;-)
>
> I really don't understand printing drivers and printing. I just poke at
> stuff until it works, I don't know the right way to do stuff (I never
> found any good description what is "the right way", btw)
>
> Simon Oosthoek wrote:
> > I upgraded my server system from mandrake 9.1 to mandrake 10.0, so now I
> > have cups version: cups-common-1.1.20-5mdk.
> >
> > I used to have two ways to access my HP laserjet 5000 PS printers, via
> > postscript and via PCL5 (or PCL6?). Anyway, I can't find the PCL drivers
> > anymore in this version of CUPS. Has something changed? The PCL driver
> > was very useful to print troublesome PDF files that failed with postscript.
>
> I don't think this was a separate driver, but just a different option. I
> just don't remember what I did to call it "PCL". It worked great with
> pdf files though ;-)
>
> > I also have a HP color laserjet 4500dn, which is no longer in the list
> > either. using the 4550 driver I can print on it, but I believe there
> > used to be a 4500dn driver (also with a PCL option, which I can't find
> > anymore).
>
> This really is different, any clue what happened with the 4500dn driver?
>
> Cheers
>
> Simon





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