My OperaPCL XL Error on HP Color LaserJet 3600
Wednesday, August 12, 2009 4:11:52 PM
This is FYI in case someone in need of information comes across this...
At one of the companies that I work for is an HP Color LaserJet (3600) that I installed on a small business server as a share for a few of the workers. Well... you would think that these guys were tree killers from all the paper the print jobs was wasting during the print sessions. I guess the issue was an error:
PCL XL error
Subsystem: KERNAL
Error: Missing Data
Operator: VendorUnique
Position: XXX
This Error would happen during the print job and would stop the current print. Sometimes it would even restart it to try again which would again fail... what a hairpull! After doing some research I found out that the drivers that goes with that printer are pcl6 and nothing else. The printer is also Host based. This was the problem. I will have to admit it is a really good printer but it is as good as a brick if people cannot print to it properly. As I investigated further I found out from a post that there is a pcl5 BETA driver out for the Host based 3500 version. It was said that using this driver would resolve the known issues of the PCL-XL Errors. I guess this is also an issue with other HP Series. Oh well... These things happen. I decided to give it a shot and so far it has cleared it up. If not you will hear from me soon!
You can get the driver from here: HP LaserJet BETA Software . Look for the "PCL-XL Error Fix" header. Of course it is not digitally signed... it's BETA you know.
At one of the companies that I work for is an HP Color LaserJet (3600) that I installed on a small business server as a share for a few of the workers. Well... you would think that these guys were tree killers from all the paper the print jobs was wasting during the print sessions. I guess the issue was an error:
PCL XL error
Subsystem: KERNAL
Error: Missing Data
Operator: VendorUnique
Position: XXX
This Error would happen during the print job and would stop the current print. Sometimes it would even restart it to try again which would again fail... what a hairpull! After doing some research I found out that the drivers that goes with that printer are pcl6 and nothing else. The printer is also Host based. This was the problem. I will have to admit it is a really good printer but it is as good as a brick if people cannot print to it properly. As I investigated further I found out from a post that there is a pcl5 BETA driver out for the Host based 3500 version. It was said that using this driver would resolve the known issues of the PCL-XL Errors. I guess this is also an issue with other HP Series. Oh well... These things happen. I decided to give it a shot and so far it has cleared it up. If not you will hear from me soon!
You can get the driver from here: HP LaserJet BETA Software . Look for the "PCL-XL Error Fix" header. Of course it is not digitally signed... it's BETA you know.
