HP Color LaserJet 4500 and PCL6

Hello,
I recently bought an HP Color LaserJet 4500.

I've a question about PCL6 compatibility

the laserjet 4500 manual , page 16
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/su.../c00634169.pdf
say the laserjet 4500 printer support PCL5c and Postscript emulation

the laserjet 4550, page 18
http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/su...5/bpl08785.pdf
say the laserjet 4550 printer support PCL6, Postscript 3 and PCL5c

by comparing
http://www.printerworks.com/DataShee...erJet4500.html and
http://www.printerworks.com/DataShee...erJet4550.html

I also understood that PCL6 was added on Laserjet 4550.

BUT :
the HP PCL6 universal printer driver file
\WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\hpupd_pcl6 contain an entry about
Laserjet 4500


http://www.hp.com/large/ipg/assets/t...or-windows.pdf
http://www.hp.com/go/upd

My test show laserjet 4500 is a PCL6 unofficial printer !

If anyone has any experience about laserjet 4500 and PCL 6...

On the seventh day, Gilles Vollant wrote...

> Hello,
> I recently bought an HP Color LaserJet 4500.
>
> I've a question about PCL6 compatibility
>
> the laserjet 4500 manual , page 16
> http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/su.../c00634169.pdf
> say the laserjet 4500 printer support PCL5c and Postscript emulation
>
> the laserjet 4550, page 18
> http://h20000.www2.hp.com/bc/docs/su...5/bpl08785.pdf
> say the laserjet 4550 printer support PCL6, Postscript 3 and PCL5c
>
> by comparing
> http://www.printerworks.com/DataShee...erJet4500.html and
> http://www.printerworks.com/DataShee...erJet4550.html
>
> I also understood that PCL6 was added on Laserjet 4550.
>
> BUT :
> the HP PCL6 universal printer driver file
> \WINDOWS\system32\spool\drivers\w32x86\hpupd_pcl6 contain an entry about
> Laserjet 4500
>
> http://www.hp.com/large/ipg/assets/t...or-windows.pdf
> http://www.hp.com/go/upd
>
> My test show laserjet 4500 is a PCL6 unofficial printer !
>
> If anyone has any experience about laserjet 4500 and PCL 6...

is your question whether the 4500 supports PCL6 or not? If the former, yes,
it supports PCL6. The current driver for Windows 2k and up is
clj4500pcl6win2kxp2003-en.exe.

HTH

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