Print queue PCL version question

[Aaron Hunt_1]

Good People,

My issue is an aging laserjet4si and its inability to interpret anything beyond PCLv2. Would anyone happen to know an easy way to force just one queue into using only PCL2 formatting?
I dug around in the interface script and in model.orig but didn't see anything immmediately promising and was hoping for a friday quick fix.
Best Regards,
Aaron

[Bill Hassell]

HP-UX scripts do not change the content of a print job, so your file will print fine whether it is plain ASCII, PCL1, PCL2 or PCL3. A printer script is referred to PCL1 or PCL2 because it has printing enhancements stored in the script (things like landscape or font spacing, etc).

On the other hand, if you are trying to print a PCL6 file to an LJ-4Si, that is an enormously complex task. Higher levels of PCL have more sophisticated features such as scalable fonts, macros, colors, shading, overlays, etc that do not any equivalent in the lower level language.

The same is true with Postscript where the higher level language has constructs that have no equivalent in the lower versions.