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From: GP on 21 Jun 2005 16:13
Every once in a while, my Laserjet 1012 stops printing the requested pages
and instead prints: Unsupported Personality: PCL I have to restart the
printer before it restarts printing.

What the hell is that?

GP


From: Arthur Entlich on 21 Jun 2005 20:46
Pretty funny, but I have no idea what it is trying to indicate.

Sounds like you got an ear on a conversation between the printer
spooler/driver and the computer. It is very polite, don't you think?

Art

GP wrote:

> Every once in a while, my Laserjet 1012 stops printing the requested pages
> and instead prints: Unsupported Personality: PCL I have to restart the
> printer before it restarts printing.
>
> What the hell is that?
>
> GP
>
>
From: GP on 22 Jun 2005 12:42
Arthur Entlich wrote:

> Pretty funny, but I have no idea what it is trying to indicate.
>
> Sounds like you got an ear on a conversation between the printer
> spooler/driver and the computer. It is very polite, don't you think?

Polite maybe. Funny, no. But this is definitely a question for Mr
Headrick, the very resourceful HP man. I'm sure he'll come up with the
answer in no time at all.

GP

From: stevem on 22 Jun 2005 14:20

"GP" <gilpel(a)inverse.nretla.org> wrote in message
news:11bj51cfri7rf86(a)corp.supernews.com...
> Arthur Entlich wrote:
>
>> Pretty funny, but I have no idea what it is trying to indicate.
>>
>> Sounds like you got an ear on a conversation between the printer
>> spooler/driver and the computer. It is very polite, don't you think?
>
> Polite maybe. Funny, no. But this is definitely a question for Mr
> Headrick, the very resourceful HP man. I'm sure he'll come up with the
> answer in no time at all.
>
> GP
>

Only time I ever heard the word "personality" used in conjunction with a
printer was in the days of the early Oki Microline series, where you had to
insert a particular "Personality Module" depending on whether you wanted
RS232 connectivity, or some other obscure protocol (can't remember what it
was, but not parallel). However, that was twenty years ago or so. As you
say, hopefully Bob Headrick will come up with the answer.

Steve.


From: GP on 22 Jun 2005 19:23
stevem wrote:
> "GP" <gilpel(a)inverse.nretla.org> wrote in message
> news:11bj51cfri7rf86(a)corp.supernews.com...
>
>>Arthur Entlich wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Pretty funny, but I have no idea what it is trying to indicate.
>>>
>>>Sounds like you got an ear on a conversation between the printer
>>>spooler/driver and the computer. It is very polite, don't you think?
>>
>>Polite maybe. Funny, no. But this is definitely a question for Mr
>>Headrick, the very resourceful HP man. I'm sure he'll come up with the
>>answer in no time at all.
>>
>>GP
>>
>
>
> Only time I ever heard the word "personality" used in conjunction with a
> printer was in the days of the early Oki Microline series, where you had to
> insert a particular "Personality Module" depending on whether you wanted
> RS232 connectivity, or some other obscure protocol (can't remember what it
> was, but not parallel). However, that was twenty years ago or so. As you
> say, hopefully Bob Headrick will come up with the answer.

From this search:

<http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Laserjet%201012%22%20%22Unsupported%20Personality%3A%20PCL%22&sourceid=mozilla-search&start=0&start=0&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8>

it seems the problem is common. No doubt HP has issued a new driver that
fixes the problem. Bob Headrich has certainly got it at hand this very
minute. This is the kind of issue HP has a reputation for fixing very
rapidly. I mean, they build the printer. If they can't put out a
functional driver, who will?

I'm sleeping tight on this one!

GP

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