[softwarelist] Re: Printing from PDF files

On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 01:40:50AM +0100, David Pilling wrote:
> >printed OK from !PDF and !RiScript, but from Acrobat7 the sprite printed 
> >with
> >*B&W inverted, and some grey regions in the new white area*. All printing 
> >was
> >on the same HP1100 laser printer (I have a RISCube machine with Virtual 
> >RPC
> >Adjust, using UniPrint/!Printers for the RISCOS side, and the WinXP 
> >printer
> >driver for the PC side).
> 
> I wonder how it would have printed if you'd used your HP in PCL mode (as 
> opposed to presumably PostScript).

I don't think the Laserjet 1100 does PostScript.

Although, as an aside, we have seen LOTS of problems between recent
Acrobat versions and HP "PostScript" printers, probably due to HP's
long-ago switch from Adobe to their own Postscript clone. Many PDF
files when printed from Acrobat 7 will simply crash recent HP printers.
In some cases this can be fixed with a firmware upgrade for the
printer, either by download or buying a DIMM, but in some the problem
remains with most recent firmware (eg Color Laserjet 4500), and some
are not really upgradable (eg Laserjet 4000, though you can swap in the
formatter board from a 4050). Interestingly, ancient printers such as
Laserjet 4M/5M, which still had real Adobe Postscript, have no issues
with these files.

That's very off-topic but a source of much annoyance for me so I
couldn't resist!

Graham

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