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

John Santora(bbstenor[at]home.com)
Mon, 12 Apr 1999 23:54:36 -0500

Bruce Johnson wrote:
>
> John Santora wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
Well, the 6MP is supposed to be an autosensing PS/PCL printer -- and I've
fiddled with the PS properties in many different combinations, trying to
force the printer to see PS, but it still prints just the raw data.

>> 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.

Just did that, installed the Adobe PS driver, and *no change*. Still
printing raw PS data from VPC. I had previously heard that the Adobe drivers
*are* more stable than HP's, so thanks for that tip.

Any other ideas???

John Santora
Toronto, Canada

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