I said earlier:

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We too would like to use non-PCL printers; however, as far as the PCL
requirement is concerned, I do not know of any (even undocumented) way
to overcome this. Which is just plain abstinence on HP's part because
                                          ^____ ah, make that
"obstinance"

all the spooler does is send some very short pcl string at the beginning
and an equally short pcl string at the end of each spool file.
[Old-timers will recall that until the early '80s you could only spool
"HP" printers serially off an HP3000. Deja vu anyone?]

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John Burke
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