Recent content by HamishZA

smah's right- Excel gives you all the options in paper size regradless of which driver you have selected, ie it knows nothing about the actual printer

Might be the wrong driver or driver settings- if the resolution's wrong by a factor of 2, you get 1/4 size.

Just a dummy post to "bump" an older post up to the top

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Have you tried printing a simple text file (like etc/hosts which I always use as a quick test), as opposed to the PCL file which is full of escape sequences?

Have a star, bisawest. With all the Googling I've been doing, I can't believe I didn't find that site myself, so thanks v. much. (Pity it's only HP & Lexmark.......... )

Having said that.... is there anyway in which the quantity has been set on the printer itself, to override your request for copies? You can do that on eg Xerox DocuSP based printers.

I don't think you can calculate it... so much depends on how the driver constructs the page. But what you could do, is do a Print-to-File and see how big that file is. That shold be the same as what gets to the printer.

First Law of Questions is to include some detail. Make, Model, Printer Driver, OS, network/local, application, always/intermittent etc all help readers to think about your problem. People are more likely to spend some time on your query if there's enough detail....

Apparently, the USB port is not addressable as eg USB: a la LPT etc, so scratch that idea....

Well the mode command shown above would redirect LPTx to the COMx port, so I'm wondering if it would accept USB as a port.... try MODE LPT1:=USB: But I dunno if the USB is addressed as "USB:" like other ports are? Worth a try I guess?

In DOS you can divert stuff between ports using the mode command thusly: MODE LPTn[:]=COMm[:] Maybe it would work with USB?

Here's a history of PCL

Well PCL1 probably wasn't called PCL1 at the time, since 1st editions of anything don't usually get a number. It would have become known as PCL1 retrospectively once PCL2 came out. So maybe PCL1 could be what they mean by "just" PCL? But it's something like 20 years old.

Help I'm still looking!! The Katun site didn't help, but thanks anyway. We're analysing a lot of printer fleets with some software which captures the characteristics of each print job, and tots up the figures per printer and user over say 30 days. BUT for each printer, I need to enter the...