>About two years ago at UKs annual user group conference I saw an HP mid range
>printer printing graphics. It used, I believe, the original PCL found in the
>very first HP Laserjet. This meant the form and data had to be sent for each
>page.
 
Actually, no HP electrophotographic printer since the original LaserJet has
had this version of PCL 4. HP's midrange printers use PCL 4 rather than PCL
5 because the latter is much larger and is generally not needed in a data
processing environment. PCL 4 as implemented in every printer released
since 1985 includes macro capabilities; PCL 4 printers include the LaserJet
II/IIP/IID, LaserJet Plus, and LaserJet 2000. HP's midrange printers do NOT
require that the form and data be sent for each page. (Well, the data has
to be sent for each page -- though PCL 6 will include a feature called Text
Prediction, requiring that only part of the data to be sent. The printer
will figure out what the rest of the data should be.)
 
-- Bruce
 
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