HP 5000 JetDirect: Driver For PostScript?

[(PeteCresswell)]

Is there such a thing as a PostScript driver for HP's 5000
printer that works through the JetDirect card?

I've got whatever the default driver is and the printer cannot
render large pictures... and I'm hoping a PS driver will help.

 

[PA Bear [MS MVP]]

Contact HP Support.

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per PA Bear [MS MVP]:

Contact HP Support.

I stumbled on it already - was just about to withdraw the
question.

Driver choice is embedded in the JetDirect install utility.

 

[EN59CVH]

You need a universal driver that works on every HP printer. Try this
link:

<http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bizsuppor...25473&swLang=8&taskId=135&swEnvOID=228#113266>

Let us know if this helped.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "(PeteCresswell)" <[email protected]>

| Is there such a thing as a PostScript driver for HP's 5000
| printer that works through the JetDirect card?

| I've got whatever the default driver is and the printer cannot
| render large pictures... and I'm hoping a PS driver will help.
| --
| PeteCresswell

Pete:

The JetDirect has nothing to do with whether you use a PCL (Printer Control Language) or
PS (PostScript) driver to printer.

All that matters is the TCP/IP stack and TCP port 9100.

 

[(PeteCresswell)]

Per David H. Lipman:

The JetDirect has nothing to do with whether you use a PCL (Printer Control Language) or
PS (PostScript) driver to printer.

All that matters is the TCP/IP stack and TCP port 9100.

That finally soaked in.

I re-ran the JetDirect UI and told it to search online for a PS
driver. It found one, and now I've got PS.

But the printing of large bitmaps still doesn't work. For an
11x17 image, it only printes about 2" of the image

Printer's only got 4 megs in it.

My guess is that I need to add memory.

 

[David H. Lipman]

From: "(PeteCresswell)" <[email protected]>

| Per David H. Lipman:
| That finally soaked in.

| I re-ran the JetDirect UI and told it to search online for a PS
| driver. It found one, and now I've got PS.

| But the printing of large bitmaps still doesn't work. For an
| 11x17 image, it only printes about 2" of the image

| Printer's only got 4 megs in it.

| My guess is that I need to add memory.
| --
| PeteCresswell

No. The memory in the printer is not really used for rendering, it is for queuing data.
The HP LaserJet 5000 is designed for ledger paper so you really need to look at the job
you are submitting to the laser and HOW you are submitting it. It shouldn't matter if it
is PS or PCL but... PCL is the natve HP language so if I were you, I would use it rather
than PS.

 

[SC Tom]

From: "(PeteCresswell)" <[email protected]>

| Per David H. Lipman:

| That finally soaked in.

| I re-ran the JetDirect UI and told it to search online for a PS
| driver. It found one, and now I've got PS.

| But the printing of large bitmaps still doesn't work. For an
| 11x17 image, it only printes about 2" of the image

| Printer's only got 4 megs in it.

| My guess is that I need to add memory.
| --
| PeteCresswell

No. The memory in the printer is not really used for rendering, it is for
queuing data.
The HP LaserJet 5000 is designed for ledger paper so you really need to
look at the job
you are submitting to the laser and HOW you are submitting it. It
shouldn't matter if it
is PS or PCL but... PCL is the natve HP language so if I were you, I
would use it rather
than PS.

A lot of what you get as output is dependent upon the program doing the
printing. We had a few 5000's at work that we used for A- and B-sized
drawings created in SDRC, and plotted through Myriad from InfoGraph. The
earlier versions of Myriad required PCL5 on the print server, but the later
versions required PCL6 (although the last version we had worked better with
PCL5 than 6). PostScript would get us nothing but garbage on the output,
similar to what Pete is describing. Even so, everything else that went to
those printers worked fine also, including documents and spreadsheets. Even
flow charts and company structure charts worked fine with the PCL drivers
installed.