pcl xl error image illegal attribute HP LaserJet 4050T

[GeorgeTheV]

PCL XL ERROR

Subsystem:          IMAGE

Error:                    IllegalAttributeValue

Operator:            ReadImage        

Position:              933

We recently switched ip addresses on an existing printer and the printer has stopped working for some reason. This is the error we are seeing, we are up to date on drivers. Printing from PeopleSoft using Crystal 

[dansdaduk]

If the error is repeatable (i.e. exactly the same when reprinting the same document, using the same driver, to the same device), then it is likely that it is caused by a driver (or driver settings) fault.

There may be a more up-to-date driver available, or (depending on the printer model) you may perhaps be able to switch to a driver using a different Page Description Language(i.e. PCL5 or PostScript instead of PCL6 (the 'marketting' name for the PCL XL PDL)).

If the error(s) is/are random, they are much more likely to be the result of intermittent corruptions of the generated print stream between the workstation and the device (check cables, ports, switches, etc.).

With the PCL XL error information, it is possible to compare a (repeatable) error with an analysis of a print stream (captured using the 'print to file' option), and (sometimes) work out what was wrong with the operator at the given position (which indicates the count of operators up to and including the erroneous one), and hence (perhaps) to lead to a workaround.

Such analysis can be performed using the PRN File Analyse tool in the PCL Paraphernalia application, available via http://www.pclparaphernalia.eu