HP Laserjet 4 Series & Arev 3.12 (AREV Specific)
At 11 JUN 1998 04:23:56PM Sergio Sartor wrote:
I have been using numerous HP Laserjet 4 network printers in my work environment. I also have a HP Laserjet 4L. Any reports that are to be a smaller font than the standard do not print compressed on the 4L. The workstation is Win95 and I have tried all the different settings on the Win95 driver. Could someone please help? Are the control codes sent to the Laserjet 4 the same as the 4L. How do I fix this?
Thanks!
At 12 JUN 1998 03:04PM Jim Horvath wrote:
Since AREV runs under DOS, any settings you make to the Windows driver will have no effect. For DOS programs, Windows simply passes the characters from the program to the printer. The specific printer type has to be supported by the DOS program. For all it cares, you could use the Windows driver for an Epson dot matrix printer so long as AREV knows you are printing to a HP laserjet.
I've personally had no problems with any of the HP Laserjets over the years. I haven't changed the codes in AREV since the days of the LaserJet Series II, but it appears that the HPLJ4L doesn't respond to some code that you are sending the LJ4.
If you log into AREV under the sysprog account, you can check YOUR printer definitions under the Options-Configuration-Hardware-Printer-Definitions menu.
Perhaps someone else can jump in to explain all the interactions between the INI files, printer definitions, and environments. THOSE are the things I had problems with back when I did make changes to printer codes.
Jim (horvath_jim@keithley.com)
At 13 JUN 1998 03:38PM Aaron Kaplan wrote:
How are you gening the control codes? Can you get a file output and verify what codes are being sent and that they are valid for your printer?
akaplan@sprezzatura.com
At 16 JUN 1998 08:17AM Paul Sindberg wrote:
I have been printing to numerous HP laser jets from AREV under windows for several years now. What works for us is to ignore all the Windows driver stuff and just issue PCL5 codes to the printers. this allows printing of complex forms with lines and fonts. Granted I had to learn PCL5 but it wasn't to bad. HP has a small tome entitled "PCL5 Printer Language Technical Reference Manual" with all the codes in it. Also most printers will have a small section of PCL5 codes in their manual.
Paul