Re: Issue with PCL3GUI output

On Sat, 22 Jul 2017, Chris Liddell wrote:

> The best I could suggest is to rattle down the list of printers
> supported by the pcl driver, and see if one works.

How owuld I get such a list of printers supported by the pcl driver?
And what would I vary in the ghostscript command line?

> TBH, pcl3 is such a moving target, with so many variations across the
> various HP printers that claim to use "PCL3", it's quite possible the
> existing code just doesn't support it.

Not very encouraging.  :(

> Worse, the pcl3 device is no longer really supported with the original
> author no longer interested, and no one on the Ghostscript team with the
> knowledge or printer access (or time, frankly) to take it on.

Even less encouraging.  :)

> If someone were to reverse engineer what's going on, and create a patch,
> I'll be happy to review it, and get it committed.

Thanks, but that "someone" isn't likely to be me.


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