Need PCL6 or PS drivers for HP 8715

[mwestin707]

Hello.  Where can I download pcl6 drivers for the HP 8715?  Im an IT admin and one of my users has the HP 8715 at her home office.  When she connects to her work pc via rdp, we can see her printer redirected just fine.  She is having a problem where randomly her printouts are gibberish.  I believe it's because the driver on her local pc is PCL-3 and the driver on her work pc is the Universal HP driver.  I'd like to install a PCL6 or even PS driver on both the pc's but I cannot find it.  Please advise.

[Bob_Headrick]

The Officejet Pro 8715 only supports PCL3,  the Officejet Pro 8730, 8740 and 8745 support PCL6 and PS. See the Printing Specifications in the document here.

Printing specifications

Review the following tables to become familiar with the available print resolutions, print method, device printer languages, and print speeds.

HP OfficeJet 8702, OfficeJet Pro 8710, 8715, 8718, and 8719 printers

• Black print resolution: Up to 1200 dpi with pigmented black ink
• Color print resolution: HP enhanced photo quality up to 4800 by 1200 dpi. Optimized on HP Advance Photo papers with 1200 x 1200 input dpi
• Print method: Drop-on-demand thermal inkjet printing
• Device languages: HP PCL 3 GUI, HP PCL 3 Enhanced
• Print speed: In pages per minute (ppm)*

  Print Mode	Print speed*
  Black	Color
  Draft	Up to 35 ppm	Up to 35 ppm
  ISO	Up to 22 ppm	Up to 18 ppm

• Duty cycle: 30,000 pages per month
• Duplex (two-sided) printing: Automatic and manual

HP OfficeJet Pro 8720, 8725, and 8728 printers

• Black print resolution: Up to 1200 dpi with pigmented black ink
• Color print resolution: HP enhanced photo quality up to 4800 by 1200 dpi. Optimized on HP Advance Photo papers with 1200 x 1200 input dpi
• Print method: Drop-on-demand thermal inkjet printing
• Device languages: HP PCL 3 GUI, HP PCL 3 Enhanced
• Print speed: In pages per minute (ppm)*

  Print Mode	Print speed*
  Black	Color
  Draft	Up to 37 ppm	Up to 37 ppm
  ISO	Up to 24 ppm	Up to 20 ppm

• Duty cycle: 30,000 pages per month
• Duplex (two-sided) printing: Automatic and manual

HP OfficeJet Pro 8730, 8740, and 8745 printers

• Black print resolution: Up to 1200 dpi with pigmented black ink
• Color print resolution: HP enhanced photo quality up to 4800 by 1200 dpi. Optimized on HP Advance Photo papers with 1200 x 1200 input dpi
• Print method: Drop-on-demand thermal inkjet printing
• Device languages: HP PCL XL (PCL6), native PDF, HP Postscript Level 3 emulation
• Print speed: In pages per minute (ppm)*

  Print Mode	Print speed*
  Black	Color
  Draft	Up to 36 ppm	Up to 36 ppm
  ISO	Up to 24 ppm	Up to 20 ppm

• Duty cycle: 30,000 pages per month
• Duplex (two-sided) printing: Automatic and manual

[mwestin707]

Thank you Bob.  How can I install the pcl3 driver on the remote machine that I rdp to?  When I try to install the full driver or even the basic, the installer is prompting me to connect the printer which I physically cannot do since it is remote.  Please advise.

[Bob_Headrick]

I will ask to have one of my colleuges step in for this one.  I am not well versed in settting up printers in an RDP environment.

[ShlomiL]

Hi,

I suggest using an alternate driver such as the Deskjet 6940 on the remote machine, that would be the simplest solution:

Click Add Printer, then select a local printer.

Select LPT1 and press Next.

within the printers list select HP, then select HP Deskjet 6940 model from the list (which is ordered alphabetical).

Note: if HP Deskjet 6940 is not listed, press Windows Update, allow the update to complete and then it will be listed.

Follow the steps to complete the wizard, name the printer as you would like.

Next right click the added printer, select Printer Properties, open the ports tab and select the correct port (the same port as listed for the current driver to generate a gibbrish).

Press OK and try printing using the newly added printer.

Please let me kow how it goes

Shlomi