Re: Server 2003, HP printers and drivers
- From: PeeGee <triessuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2007 21:36:56 +0000
Timboi wrote:
Hi,
I've been looking all over the NGs trying to find consolidated info about printers, drivers (specifically HP) and whether it's best to use PCL or Postscript.
Can someone confirm whether what I think I've figured out is correct (and possibly add to it if you feel it necessary).
Postscript is [basically] Adobe and should be used for Adobe applications where possible, including Acrobat printing.
PCL is [basically] HP and is best used for things like MS Office documents.
A large proportion of HP printer use PCL natively and only emulate Postscript.
The problem I've been finding lately is that some Acrobat documents take ages to spool, because the spool files they're creating are massive; if these are printer on a Postscript drive (LJ4050 in this case for example) the spool file is much smaller and the job is much quicker.
I'm trying to avoid creating a Postscript printer queue and PCL printer queue for each printer, because I think it's a bit much to ask users to know which one to use but it seems I may have no choice.
I have noticed, though, that HP don't supply Postscript drivers for a alot of their printers, so that could make the job a little easier/more difficult depending on which route I choose.
Cheers,
Tim
Personally, I set up printers to use the manufacturer's PCL drivers. This works well for most uses and is usually very good with bitmap graphics. However, printing the same file to different printers (even 2 HP models) will often give a different page layout.
Postscript, on the other hand, will give output that is consistent across printers and commercial print systems. It is also like HTML, *very* verbose and a nightmare when printing bitmap graphics.
Try printing to a file for both options using the same printer and you will see the difference in size (and actually printing both versions will frequently produce different layouts).
PeeGee
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