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For whatever it might be worth,
for the past decade or so I have been using a modified 3+ HPLJ file to
drive a Brother HL-1440 laser printer without problems. With more
recent Brother printers, pages did not format correctly. Evidently
Brother changed to a later or flawed HPLJ emulation. The old Brother
is a workhorse. Fred J R FOX wrote: This thread got me to thinking: if anyone has *customized* PRN files for various printer makes / models much later than any known to XY-4 (by definition, this is probably a majority of the printers we are using today), and they are known to work well, might not these make good samples for a user-supplied section on Bry's site ? I'd very much like to see some annotated examples of taking these beyond their plain-Vanilla state. There was a time when I had some minimal facility for modifying the Xy-3 printer files, but it never carried over to the Xy-4 ones, which I found to be a lot more complicated and not as usefully documented. Also, for those who still use actual specific printer drivers, a list of more recent printer models still adaptable vs. those that should be avoided might also be useful. I recognize that there is a forced movement towards the PostGhost / PDF route -- largely due to the standardizing on USB and Par. Ports going away -- but I don't think that the original methodology is completely defunct . . . yet. Jordan |