Re: Answer Found Re: How get Xy to use network printer

[J R FOX jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

--- "Patricia M. Godfrey"  wrote:

> I just did this in XP at home. The printer I was
> sharing is a
> recent Epson, so it doesn't speak any language Xy or
> even DOS
> knows, so it cannot print. But it was definitely
> getting a data
> stream--made all sorts of noises, just didn't know
> how to
> interpret what it was getting (I was using mail.prn
> nad printing
> a batchfile with no formatting).


Hi Patricia,

In Sept., I posted to another mailing list after
someone mentioned a recent HP LJ model. (2200 ? --
can't remember at this point.) They've had
intermittent server problems, with messages apparently
disappearing for *long* periods of time, only to
mysteriously reappear suddenly, much later. Anyway,
by the time I heard back on this, it seems to involve
a later HP model, the P2015dn, and I'm pasting in that
part below. A bit of a bracing reminder that we are
regularly referring to things that by now only draws
blank stares from most of the rest of the world.

>>Just an item or two of curiosity: Does it still have
>>support for PCL5 (or later) ? Can you still print
>>from a DOS Word Processor, if you have one ?

>From Newegg.com: "Print Languages, std. 	 HP
>PCL6, HP PCL5e, HP
>postscript level 3 emulation"; no DOS here; I asked
my
>family in Valencia to see if they could print to
their
>HP 2200 with the HP LaserJet 2200 via DOS and they
>said "DOS?".

I know that HP LJ models after the 1100 have been
mentioned here, from time to time, but am uncertain as
to where we left off in the later history of their
models. I hope they did not join the ranks of
stripped down WIN-printers. The above belated reply
did include a link or two for rebate offers, which I
can copy here if anyone is interested.


 Jordan