Your PCL Viewer supports all versions of PCL, so it shows the correct image no matter what version of PCL was used to create your PCL files. The printer is PCL3, so it can't understand the commands used to present the elements of the print job that are different between PCL3 and PCL5. I'm assuming your PCL file is a PCL5 print job.
The PCL file is already rendered to PCL by a printer driver or some other means of producing finished PCL. The windows printer drivers on your computer do not accept PCL, they produce PCL and accept GDI commands from a windows application. They can not take PCL5 commands and translate them into PCL3 commands for the printer. If your PCL Viewer can produces GDI print commands, the windows driver will translate those into PCL3 and the job will print correctly.
Summary: You can't expect a PCL3 printer to understand a PCL5 print job and a PCL Viewer will translate PCL? into GDI, which an appropriate windows printer driver can translate into PCL3.' at: '' integradoidpt3x-meta4- asks:
Hi,ON 20090113@10:47:05 AM at page: http://www.massmind.org/techref/language/pcls.htm#39189.5883101852 James Newton[JMN-EFP-786] Replied to post 39189.5883101852 by wjlaw100 |Insert 'You probably will not find any support for direct PCL generation in the more modern languages. That is the point of having printer drivers for everything in windows, we don't need to mess with the details of the printer languages anymore. Your best path is probably to abandon your current method and learn how to print to the windows driver the standard way. If your macros are form images, you may be able to use a PCLViewer or converter to make them into eps or other graphics which can be used in VB6.' at: '' wjlaw100@gmail.com asks:
I have a PCL file with colored text and another PCL file with a rastered bitmap. When I send them to printer (hp deskjet 5150, with drivers hp deskjet 5100 series for Windows XP), I obtain the following:
Colored text: text is printed in black.
Colored image: black line.
To send them to printer, I have done a program to send raw text to printer (win api) and I have also try "copy /b" command. None of them works.
I have opened these files with PCL Viewer and in both cases, I can see colored text and image correctly. I have printed them ok from this viewer.
I have also tried to print same files but in black and white and I can see everything ok.
It seems to me that color printing is nor working for this printer hp deskjet 5150. Should I need another driver?, some kind of configuration?.
Any help would be appreciated.
Many thanks.
Hi all. I really need a PCL Library that I can access from VB6.... Something that allows me to position a box, and center text using Built in NP Fonts... something that allows me to specify a JPEG and output it... I have something like this fro Clipper, and love it. I want to be able to build and design my Pages in Pure PCL (Since I use Tons of Macros), and call it from VB... Most font calls, etc. are easy and I've written my own code, but Image conversion to PCL image layout, and Centering calcs for NP Fonts, I can't get a grip on. Suggestions anyone? Thanks! Bill
ON 20090113@10:48:32 AM at page: http://www.massmind.org/techref/language/pcls.htm#39162.5841087963 James Newton[JMN-EFP-786] Replied to post 39162.5841087963 by dtromblee |Insert 'Given samples of the print jobs and a good binary editor, any competent programmer can probably figure out a way to get out the data.' at: '' dtromblee@cox.net asks:
Hi, I woul like to know this, I need data from my print burst so that I can compile it to be used with a control program which operates a product tracking system. The print burst contains all of the data I need, but I dont know how to view and capture the print burst. Can you help?
ON 20090113@10:56:30 AM at page: http://www.massmind.org/techref/language/pcls.htm#38889.0718055556 James Newton[JMN-EFP-786] Replied to post 38889.0718055556 by amorgan |Insert 'The only advice I have is to not depend on the printer and always specify the tray after you specify the size in the print job. Of course, that assumes you control the printer driver.' at: '' amorgan@hrdcd.com asks:
Dear HP printer guru,
Could you please shed light on the auto page size select that operates with some HP printers (HP1160) but not others (HP1320). Documents formatted to a particular page size ie. Envelope DL cause some HP printers to auto select the size and orientation via the manual feed bin, overriding the default (say A4) page in a bin. This is a desirable feature since it allows various envelopes and the like printed as required by manual feeding. Seems starnge that the feature is present in some modern HP models and not others.
Thanks for any advice and regards,
Adrian Morgan
ImageWare Technologies Australia