HP ColorLaserJet 4600 PCL Error
At work we have an HP Color LaserJet 4600 that made some strange problems during the last months. The worst of all, the error was not persistent and could not be reproduced that easily. Some print jobs went through without any problem - but others stopped after some pages and a printed (!) error message telling us
PCL XL error, ERROR: ExtraData, Operator: ReadImage, Position:<somenumber>
First we thought it might be the printer's memory or the firmware. Both of them didn't affect the issue. So we asked our friend Google for a solution what led us to an entry in the HP forums that describes this issue.
The forum entry proposes to change from PCL6 driver back to the PCL5 driver. So far a great idea - HP is known for his good drivers and the driver repository on their website. But not in this case:
- PCL6 drivers are available for WinXP/Server 2003 for 32bit and 64bit systems
- PCL5 is only available in 32bit (but we're running those drivers on a 64bit server system
The solution for us was now to switch to the current PostScript driver for this printer. That's working out pretty well :-)
