pcl drivers missing in cups?

[Simon Oosthoek]

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