Without having somewhat more information, it is difficult to guess just what your problem is, and hence what may be causing it.

Please provide more precise symptoms and details of your PCL.

As a wild guess, it could be something to do with Foreground Colour, but I may be totally misinterpreting your description, and hence this may be way off-mark.

Dans,

I think you are correct.  Here are to files:

http://155.212.60.41/htmlarea/imageok.pcl  Here the image is good.

When I set the fill area to be yellow you will see the whole image is printed in just yellow.

http://155.212.60.41/htmlarea/imagefilledwbackcolor.pcl

Can you see this?  Really appreciate the help!

James

There is only one byte different between your two PCL files, at displacement 3835; analysis of the 'bad' file around this displacement shows:
(the above text may not wrap very well within the Tek-Tips page).

The equivalent 'good' file uses:

Also, earlier in (both) files, there are instances of using coloured filled rectangles, but these are followed by a reset to foreground colour zero (which is Black in the RGB simple colour palette):
so why not place a reset to colour zero in front of the escape sequence at displacement 3842?

Dans,  Thanks for the information it works if I reset the color before the image somewhat but other areas will reset to black.  I think the issue is with image majick when the image is converted. Turns out that imagemagick is also only converting the image @ 72dpi in the binary some I am told...  I am going to do some more looking.  I have contacted a programmer at HP to see if he can have someone look at is as well.  What program did you use to read the file?  Thanks again for the help.  Not really sure what else it could be.  No image works fine with an image other issue arise...

"it works if I reset the color before the image somewhat but other areas will reset to black.  I think the issue is with image majick when the image is converted"

You need to be more specific.


"Turns out that imagemagick is also only converting the image @ 72dpi in the binary some I am told..."

Perhaps the original image is only at 72dpi anyway (i.e. designed for VGA screen, not PCL printer); converting to a higher resolution whilst maintaining colours/shading/etc. is quite difficult.


"What program did you use to read the file?"

See thread286-1031037 for detail.


"No image works fine with an image other issue arise..."

Not sure what you mean.

Dans,

"it works if I reset the color before the image somewhat but other areas will reset to black.  I think the issue is with image majick when the image is converted"

"You need to be more specific."  

Othe fill areas will be black and not the correct fill color. <Esc>*v4S  Files with the image printered before or after the fill areas are the same with the exception that the imae is moved.

"Perhaps the original image is only at 72dpi anyway (i.e. designed for VGA screen, not PCL printer); converting to a higher resolution whilst maintaining colours/shading/etc. is quite difficult."  

The image was rendered from vector art out of illustrator and the raterized in photoshop 7 to 300 x 300.

Thats too bad about the program.  I thank you for reading it...  If things change please let me know.

"No image works fine with an image other issue arise..."
It was a long day..  If I do not print an image at all the the document looks fine.  If I do print an image the the are the issues we have been discussing.  

Does this make sense?

Figured it out..

I have to set the font color to black befor images data.
*v0S

Then image data.

Then reset the color plane

*v6W" CHR(2) + CHR(3) + CHR(8) + CHR(8) + CHR(8) + CHR(8).
v255a213b209c8I".
v146a51b51c9I".

Hope this can help someone else.....
Dans thanks for all your help on this one.
James