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‎05-13-2014 04:02 PM

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Viateur, did your PCL personality problem recur after printing 7 or 8 times?

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‎05-14-2014 04:34 PM

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Provost's link is to the Vista 1012 driver as near as I can tell is the best solution.

 

The 1015 drivers work - kinda, but because the 1015 printer supports PCL, the driver supports PCL. The 1012 printer does not support PCL, hence the error.

 

Use the Vista 1012 driver which won't use PCL. Furthermore, the 1012 driver has the printer's capabilities built-in so it won't allow you to print things the 1015 printer may support. (Maybe n-up or something.)

 

If anyone out there is interested, prior to HP coming out with a Linux driver for the 1012, a user discovered that putting an 8 character sequence into a PPD file would prevent the PCL error (0xc2,0x11,0x20,0x70,0x68,0xf8,0x91,0x46). 

 

My guess is the sequence does a software reset to clear the memory of the last job(s) printed... which is why it may print fine for the first X jobs, depending on how large they are. (The 1012 has 8Meg of print storage/processing memory.) That's why power-cycling the device will "fix" it because the memory gets cleared.

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