Re: HP Postscript printers

From: Joel Jaeggli (joelja_at_darkwing.uoregon.edu)
Date: 11/28/05

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    On Mon, 28 Nov 2005, Thomas W. Cranston wrote:

    > Does anybody know if the following printers are Postscript printers?
    >
    > HP LazerJet 5L

    pcl (basically a laserjet 4)

    > HP LazerJet 6L

    pcl

    > HP LazerJet 1100

    pcl

    the 1200 supports postscript level2

    > I already tried wading thru the HP site, and HP support wont tell me.
    >
    > Is there any way to determine whether a particular printer has PostScript?

    print to it with the generic ps driver, if you get garbage it's not a
    postscript printer. Or if you look at the notes for each pritner in
    system-config-printer you'll find a description of each printer (that's
    listed)

    > Tom
    >
    >
    > 

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