It must understand basic PCL (even an old HP 2932A, for example works) or be
a PostScript printer. The network spooler sends out some basic PCL
regardless - there is no known way to avoid this. Unless the printer can
interpret (or in the case of PostScript, apparently ignore) this PCL, you
will at best get some garbage mixed in your printout and at worst, hang your
printer or reduce the entire output to garbage.

If you must use a printer that does not support PCL, then either you have to
connect it serially to a DTC or purchase one of several third party packages
that will handle network printing to non-PCL printers.

<Plug> See the "net.digest" feature of the July and August issues of The
3000 News/Wire for a discussion of the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of the HP
Network print spooler. </Plug>

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Ted Ashton [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Wednesday, July 26, 2000 8:37 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: [HP3000-L] your mail


Thus it was written in the epistle of Susan Dunn,
> Do you know of an line printer by epison that will work with hp3000
network
> printing on mpex 5.5?

Pretty much any printer which communicates via parallel and which doesn't
say
"Windows only" could, I believe, be hooked to an HP JetDirect box and work
as an HP3000 printer.

HTH,
Ted
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