Re: [WinMac] VPC Printing Gibberish to HP 6MP

Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Mon, 12 Apr 1999 11:28:09 -0500

John Santora wrote:
>
> Hello all,
>
> Sorry if this has been asked before, but I have a problem printing through
> Virtual PC.
>
> I'm using VPC 2.1.2 on a PowerBook G3 Series/250 with MacOS 8.5.1, and Win95
> (64MB RAM allocated) with the latest HP Win95 drivers just downloaded from
> the HP site.
>
> When I try to print from Win95 to the PostScript 6MP driver to LPT1:, I get
> pages of gibberish, as if the printer was set for PCL but receiving raw PS.

Yep, that's what's happening, likely. A PCL printer sees PS as plain text
(which it is...). Worse is a PCL printer accidentally chosen as the recipient
of a dot-matrix print job (happened once) then you get _hundreds_ of pages,
often with just one character printed on them somewhere.

> The VPC Preferences say to print through a PS driver. What gives? Should I
> use a generic Apple LaserWriter driver? Or is something wrong with my
> configs?

Go download Adobe's PostScript printer driver for Windows and install that on
the VPC side. End of problems. You'll need to get the HP PPD (PostScript
Printer Description) files from Adobe as well.

We've standardized on that driver for all our network printers (which we are
all now specifying to be PostScript, natch!), it seems to be the most
hassle-free solution.

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