DOS Laser printer

[Neville]

Does anyone know of a Laser printer which runs under DOS (without
Windows)?

Or does anyone in England have one for sale?
--
Neville

[Ben Myers]

Almost HP LaserJet printer using HP's Printer Control Language (PCL) will run
under DOS. So will most PostScript printers, with some qualifications on their
use.

Most of the old DOS programs which allowed use of a laser printer also supplied
a device driver for the printer or family of printers. A LaserJet can accept a
text stream of data with each line terminated by a carriage return and a line
feed, but PCL commands need to be entered into the text stream to tell the
printer when to eject a page.

Printing lines of text to a PostScript printer is much more involved, because
PostScript is a full programming language for describing exactly where everythin
is placed on a printed page.

And laser printer graphics is an advanced topic which I do not have time or
space to elaborate upon... Ben Myers

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 16:21:50 +0000, Neville <naj@najoseph.demon.co.uk> wrote:
Does anyone know of a Laser printer which runs under DOS (withoutWindows)?Or does anyone in England have one for sale?--Neville

[Mike]

I have used a LJ 4L for years with the DOS version of Wordperfect 6.0
Mike

"Neville" <naj@najoseph.demon.co.uk> wrote in message
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[Alan]

Neville <naj@najoseph.demon.co.uk> wrote in message news:<GoXb8WAeq8HAFwAs@najoseph.demon.co.uk>... Does anyone know of a Laser printer which runs under DOS (without Windows)?

Be a bit more specific -- what DOS apps? Any DOS word processor can
print to a PCL laser -- IE HPII/III/4/5/6/... Most other brands will
list compatibility with an HP model.
I'm pretty sure that if a laser has a parallel port it will be PCL
compatible. Some cheap ones with USB only will only work with a
specific Windows driver.

A good place to check the capabilities of a printer is
www.linuxprinting.org.

[David Efflandt]

On Tue, 3 Feb 2004 16:21:50 +0000, Neville <naj@najoseph.demon.co.uk> wrote: Does anyone know of a Laser printer which runs under DOS (without Windows)? Or does anyone in England have one for sale?

Not sure if you are still looking for this, but the PCL language for HP
Laserjets is backwards compatible and should work as long as the printer
has a parallel port. For HP LJ 2200DTN at work (1200 dpi), I connected
its parallel port to an old PC and simply set it as "Laserjet III"
(typically 300 dpi) in DOS WordPerfect 5.2, and it worked perfectly.

Or before Linux had an HPLJ4L print filter for my printer at home, I
simply used HPLJ3 filter. Although, in that case both were 300 dpi (4L
just had better quality 600 dpi smoothing with 300 dpi print data). Or
before I had any print filter at all, it worked for plain ascii text
(with just an Escape code to work with different line endings of Unix
text, which is not needed for DOS text).

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