[cups.general] HP8100's and PDF files

[Michael Sweet]

Jeff Port wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I know the true answer to this problem is to get new printers as the 
> LaserJet 8100's seem to just hate most PDF files.  However, I thought 
> I'd take one last stab at solving this problem by asking this group.
> 
> The problem - and I suspect it has a lot to do with the Postscript Level 
> - is that we have two 8100 series printers here and they both throw a 
> 79.00FE error on many of the PDF's that are sent to them.  Of course the 
> printer halts, drops communication and cups stops the que (and being the 
> noob that I am) and I have no idea why cups does that even.  We have 
> many different OS's printing to these various printers and I'm not 
> having any luck in nailing down what software is printing the jobs that 
> fail.
> 
> My question to this group, is it possible to update this printer to 
> accept PS Level 3, and in doing so will that fix this problem?

Unfortunately, no.  However, you can use a PCL (5 or 6) driver with
these printers to do the PostScript on your computer instead...

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