Re: [WinMac] VPC Printing Gibberish to HP 6MP
Bruce Johnson(johnson[at]Pharmacy.Arizona.EDU)
Tue, 13 Apr 1999 10:59:03 -0500
John Santora wrote:
>
> 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.
>
Have you set the default protocol on the printer to PS? Sometimes that
helps...we usded to have problems on our networked HP 3si (another
'autosensing' PCL/PS printer) it would go into pcl mode and stay there.
> > 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.
Ok, now you've run into the ghost .dll problem...I've had that happen
more than once. If you have installed the Windows PS and HP print
drivers there's _some_ .dll that hangs around messing up things. My
solution is to delete all your printers . Whenever they say 'This
printer used some files that no other uses, delete?' delete them. Then
shutdown and restart Windows, that seems to convince it that you mean
business :-/
Then re-install the adobe drivers..
If that doesn't work, it's some odd thing about VPC, I'd guess.
--
Bruce Johnson
University of Arizona
College of Pharmacy
Information Technology Group
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