28ThursdayJul 2011
Posted in OTHER
PCL 5e is for black & white printing, PCL 5c is for color printing, and PCL 6 (or PCL XL if its a Kyocera) is just the newest version that can be used for black & white or color printing.
When printing from some older applications, many problems can be resolved by reverting to the appropriate PCL 5e or 5c emulation.
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At it's simplest, PCL 5e is for black & white printing, PCL 5c is for color printing, and PCL 6 (or PCL XL if its a Kyocera) is just the newest version that can be used for black & white or color printing.
When printing from some older applications, many problems can be resolved by reverting to the appropriate PCL 5e or 5c emulation.
How many times has a customer come to you and said "I can't print color on my color printer!", and they have set up a PCL5e emulation, or an HP laserjet 4 driver (duh! HP LJ4 is a monochrome printer!). =^..^=
If you'd like a serious answer to your request:
1) demonstrate that you've read the manual
2) demonstrate that you made some attempt to fix it.
3) if you're going to ask about jams include the jam code.
4) if you're going to ask about an error code include the error code.
blackcat: Master Of The Obvious =^..^=
PCL5e is a trusty b/w driver, with small print data. PCL6 is good most of the time for Color and B/W if your printers doesn't start printing garbage.
Pcl5c, stay away it's just rubbish. Slow, much print data, louzy output. Bad colors, no smooth gradations.
Esentially all manufactures are putting all of their engineering efforts into PCL6 now.
It simply costs them too much to develop drivers for all equipment, every OS, and every version.
PCL5 is just along for the ride anymore. It is only there for legacy applications that won't play nice with PCL6.
The Ricoh RPCS driver is being phased out as well, along with the MiniDriver.
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