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From: Damian Ivereigh <damian@cisco.com> Date: Sat, 03 Mar 2001 12:34:04 +1100 Subject: Re: PPR: PCL & majordomo index Hi Marc, I work at Cisco Systems where a my Team and I maintain about 6000 printers most of which are HP's (including *many* HP8150's). We don't actually use PPR, but we do exclusively use postscript. While I am no way speaking for Cisco, HP position that "postscript is only emulated and therefore no good" is really not acceptable as far as I am concerned. If they sell a product that supports postscript then its needs to do just that. We use postscript because we believe it is a vastly superior language than PCL and it much better designed for postprocessing than PCL. Where are your postscript jobs coming from? Are you sure it is valid postscript? Damian Marc Miller wrote: > > Alright, two vaguely related topics: > > 1. Our brand new HP LJ 8150DN printer is throwing out a lot of jobs, > giving "invalidfont" command "deffont" errors. I talked to HP; they said > their printers emulate PostScript but it's not really Adobe PostScript. > So I rigged PPR to let PCL jobs go straight through (PCL is the printer's > native language). I'm providing details of how I did that below, but the > jist of the problem is that with it being passed straight through like > that, we lose the page accounting. We get an "undef" error when the page > accounting is turned on. Anyone know a way around that? > > 2. I wanted to see if PCL was a topic covered on this list before, but I > couldn't figure out how to get "ppr-list-digest" as instructed on the FAQ > web page. It says to send the help command to majordomo, but the help > wasn't helpful. I tried doing a "get ppr-list ppr-list-digest" and "get > index ppr-list" but that just gave me a "file not found" and a blank list > of files. > > The PCL workaround: > > I'm using an LJ8150DN with the Windows 95 PCL 6 driver from HP. > > Rather than have Samba execute ppr, it scans the first 1 or 4 lines for a > PostScript header, and if found sends the job through with the > -Htransparent option. If in the first 14 lines it finds the text > "HP-PCL" it also sends it through with the -Htransparent option. The > printer is set to "trustme" and to be on the safe side (though it seems > it's not really necessary since it isn't recognized as PCL) I've enabled > the "passthru pcl" option. > > That works quite well, except for the page accounting. That's critical > for a university like ours that caps the print quota user-by-user. > > ============================================================ > /\/\arc ._|. /\/\iller (_ADDRESS_ELIDED_@mailbox.ucdavis.edu) > Computer Room Consultant > Information Technology/Lab Management > ============================================================ > I can be contacted through the Communication Center link from > http://www.mother.com/~mjmiller/ - -- Damian Ivereigh CEPS Team Lead http://wwwin-print.cisco.com Desk: +61 2 8446 6344 Mob: +61 418 217 582