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HP Color LaserJet 3500 report form printing PCL XL error
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Forum:
Visual FoxPro
Category:
Reports & Report designer
Environment versions
Visual FoxPro:
VFP 8
OS:
Windows XP SP1
Network:
Windows XP
Database:
Visual FoxPro
Miscellaneous
Thread ID:
00974525
Message ID:
00974590
Views:
72
I suggest trying a driver for a different HP USB printer. I can print to my HP businessjet 1100 from VFP without error, and that's a USB printer. I don't know if that driver is compatible with your printer or not, but it's worth a try.

>I have a VFP8 report form that printed fine on other printers until I tried it out on our new HP Color LaserJet 3500. When the report form is printed, all that appears on the printer is a blank white page with:
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>PCL XL Error
>Subsystem: KERNEL
>Error: ColorSpaceMismatch
>Operator: VendorUnique
>Position: 9
>
>MSKB article Q238473 suggests installing an "older" printer driver as a workaround but unfortunately this does not work very well since the LJ 3500 is a USB-only printer and the old (i.e. HP LaserJet 4) drivers don't want to work with USB apparently.
>
>From what I have googled (and there's very little I can find), other non-VFP users with Crystal Reports and PCL 6 printers have the same problem, but no one has a decent solution.
>
>I can print a document from Word just fine using the existing HP Color LJ 3500 driver, it's just this VFP8 report form that is giving me trouble.
>
>P.S. I am using HP's most recent drivers.
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