Download the latest drivers for your Generic Printers to keep your Computer up-to-date. Using Publisher 2010 on Windows 7, I am unable to use the instructions provided to install a generic color postscript printer driver. Reasons for problem installing. When you install the free HP Universal Print Driver. And supports current Windows client and server operating systems. On HP Color LaserJet printers and MFPs. It's so amazing and horrifying when a thread like this has all sorts of non-knowledge and non-answers flowing in it and no answer gets it right. First I'll give my own answer then I'll explain where the previous posters are wrong. You should go with PCL 6. Here's why: You don't need PostScript. John elefante rapidshare. If you did need it you would know it and you wouldn't be asking this question. PostScript is more problematic than is PCL, so if you don't need it it's better avoided. One major problem with PCL6 is that you can't capture the print job and read any of the content which can become an issue if you are trying to debug the datastream. PCL6 (XL) is nothing like PCL5 and is a compiled (aka.exe) stream while PCL5 is a set of commands and PS is human readable source code. If you look at a PCL6 stream it's unreadable. So simple things such as checking what the orientation for a specific page is for debugging some print issue, are very difficult. #1=PS #2=PCL5 #3=PCL6. – Oct 30 '11 at 15:51 •. The issue between PCL and PostScript is very specific to which software and printer combination is used. On some printers, PCL is better than PostScript and on others, the reverse applies. ![]() Some printers like the HP LaserJet 5 Color (and many others) have an add-on module that fits in one of the SIMM slots that provides PostScript support. Yet other printers have factory built-in support. Sending a PostScript file to the printer produces fairly high quality output that is very predictable. On the other hand, the software on the PC/MAC/X-computer (or whatever the source of the PostScript is) becomes the wild card here. At some point, there has to be a conversion from whatever your document is to PostScript (unless the document is already in PostScript, and even in this case there are issues).
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