ppd files and printer with 2 emulations

[Teruel de Campo]

Michael, Helge and Till,

Thank you for your replies. I will try all the tips. I have been using this printer for years and It is still great.

BTW 6 month ago I got a Xerox Phaser 8550 DP it is a color duplex with real Adobe PS level 3. It works great with Cups and it is very fast. I am using the Xerox ppd file from win2000 driver if I recall.

Thx you all .

-=terry(Denver)=-


> Teruel de Campo wrote:
> > I have an IBM 4039 12 R that has (1) ps level 1 (2) pcl 5 emulations.
> > I got the ESP software because the printer driver was included. The
> > ppd file was for the PS level 1 emulation. Even that the file was
> > correct the PS is so slow that is unusable. This is not related to
> > the ppd file but to the printer. I also created a printer using the
> > pcl5 emulation with the generic PCL_5_Printer-gimp-print.ppd.gz. This
> > one works great however it does not use the feature of the printer.
> > The only one I am interested is duplex. Is there a way to modify the
> > pcl5 ppd files and add the duplex features for this printer? Is there
> > any way to "merge" the ps ppd file that came with ESP into this pcl5
> > generic?   I wish ESP  would have both emulation but...
>
> Try the HP LaserJet 4 Series PCL driver (or with CUPS, the HP LaserJet
> Series driver), which supports all of the standard PCL laser printer
> stuff including duplexing.
>
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