I have searched and found very little.
A fellow IT person needs to build some printers in Unix and needs a list of codes. Full screen and edge to edge printing.
Nothing is out there, the forums I have visited all end in arguing about it.


KCCO

PCL is PCL, 1 2 3 4 5 6, they just add 'more' stuff to each version, most of the stuff your asking for should be from version 4 on, i dont know how to "program" with them, but been dealing with PCL printers for years now...

http://h20000.www2.hp.com/b...sp?objectID=bpl02705
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/b...pl13205/bpl13205.pdf
http://www.pclviewer.com/resources/reference/
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/b...pl13210/bpl13210.pdf

quote Originally posted by hookdonspeed: PCL is PCL, 1 2 3 4 5 6, they just add 'more' stuff to each version, most of the stuff your asking for should be from version 4 on, i dont know how to "program" with them, but been dealing with PCL printers for years now... http://h20000.www2.hp.com/b...sp?objectID=bpl02705 http://h20000.www2.hp.com/b...pl13205/bpl13205.pdf http://www.pclviewer.com/resources/reference/ http://h20000.www2.hp.com/b...pl13210/bpl13210.pdf

Apparently the edge to edge printing is new to PCL6 the PCL codes that have been working fine do not work on new printers.
Forms that printed fine before now are skewed or printing out of the boxes because they are trying to make the print fit the page in hardware.

Make sure the printer will use whatever code as you think...
PCL6 Vs. Printer on hand often not = Or work on Letter size but not on Tablet size.

My printer has PCL6 drivers but Printer has ~0.15 hardware margin. PCL etc can send a code but hardware won't print edge to edge.

try
http://www.hpdevelopersolutions.com/
http://www.pclviewer.com/resources/

Many HP printers has Postscript support too.

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quote Originally posted by theogre: Make sure the printer will use whatever code as you think... PCL6 Vs. Printer on hand often not = Or work on Letter size but not on Tablet size. My printer has PCL6 drivers but Printer has ~0.15 hardware margin. PCL etc can send a code but hardware won't print edge to edge. try http://www.hpdevelopersolutions.com/ http://www.pclviewer.com/resources/ Many HP printers has Postscript support too.

It would be nice to just load a driver and use it to send the print job, the issue is these forms are printed with the raw print codes sent to the printer. Think impact printers then try to do the same thing on a new HP 3015, there is limited back wards compatibility but some of the old codes are not working for her.

Another year and it wont matter, finally replacing the system with something more cave man friendly.

check the printers settings, I know the ones we use (depending on the printer) offer pcl5 drivers, or a "switch" on inside panel or an option in the config, some will go back to pcl 4....

just found this

http://www.undocprint.org/_...reference_rev2_2.pdf
User Coordinate System
PCL XL devices have a two-dimensional user coordinate system to specify the location
at which graphical objects are placed and painted.
The user coordinate system defaults are illustrated in Figure 1-3. These defaults are
specified as follows:
♦ The origin (x = 0, y = 0) is the “physical” upper left hand corner of page. Note: PCL 5e
used the upper left corner of the printable page.
♦ The x coordinate increases horizontally from left to right
♦ The y coordinate increases vertically from top to bottom
♦ The default scale of the x and y axis is set according to the session resolution attribute
given by the user when the session begins

I think Cliff already looked into this. I think the answer was...take the train.

quote Originally posted by Jefrysuko: I think Cliff already looked into this. I think the answer was...take the train.

no ones telling him to do something he said he cant/wont do... he has new printers that possibly don't support the old pcl functions, he needs a fix for that...

HP LaserJet Enterprise P3015?
Print languages
HP PCL 5e; HP PCL 6; HP postscript level 3 emulation; direct PDF (v 1.4) printing
Source: HP

Problem is Printer Form/Macro?

Trying to recode the form is ofter harder than you think. Recoding forms may not be needed either...

First Check for PCL settings on unit.
example, HP and Others Default form length is 60 lines but some forms (Many Dot Matrix forms) use 66 lines... Missing 6 lines does matter to forms/macros.

If form works on old HP LJ then copy PCL setup to new unit.