Drivers and Printers

Although I have never used the Vista generic driver, I don;t think it
necessarily will drive every printer, even for just text. Most printers
still have unique protocols, especially color inkjet models. My
experience with generic printer drivers is, if you are lucky they will
run a very basic text output from a standard laser printer.

I still don't know much about your needs, or if you are running Vista 32
bit or 64 bit, but this url seems to offer the Vista driver you need if
running a 32 bit system:

http://downloads.lexmark.com/perl/do.../downloads.cgi

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species8350 wrote:
On Mar 25, 4:41 pm, Arthur Entlich wrote:
I don;t know of any inkjet printers that support PCL. Mostly it is used
for laser printers.

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species8350 wrote:
On Mar 25, 11:29 am, species8350
wrote:
On Mar 25, 12:01 pm, Arthur Entlich wrote:
I asked one of the software engineers at MS about this and here is the
quick reply:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms802044.aspx
Microsoft Universal Printer Driver (Unidrv)
unidrv is used by many manufactures for PCL devices. The Generic Text
Only driver also uses this as the core driver.
Hope this helps.
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species8350 wrote:
Should the Microsoft Document Driver be able to print to the Lexmark
Z2300 series of printers?
Is there a difference between Microsoft's Universal Printer Driver and
Vista's Generic/Text only driver. I assume that the UPD is available
under Vista (32bit).
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Thanks for the response.
I installed the Generic Driver supplied with Vista. I tried to print a
page, but got no response from the printer. I also tried printing a
text only page, again no response.
Any suggestions as to how to make it print? The printer is connected
via a USB. The driver is ported to a USB
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Forgot to mention
Don't know what to put into the printer commands tab. I dont think the
printer supports PCL
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Hi,

Any idea whay the Generic driver in Vista will not run my printer?

I am leaving the commands tab blank

Thanks

Good to know.

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Bob Headrick wrote:
"Arthur Entlich" wrote in message
:

I don't know of any inkjet printers that support PCL. Mostly it is used
for laser printers.

Most HP inkjets (other than the few PPA models) support PCL. The
consumer version such as the Deskjet and Photosmart models typically
support PCL3e, while the Business inkjet models typically support PCL5.

Regards,
Bob Headrick, MS MVP Printing/Imaging