Hi Dave,
 

We have the 5250DN, but had an 1850 before this. With automatic duplex,
these are awesome printers. But, the 1850 driver that comes with eCS
would grey out the automatic duplex. A driver I had downloaded earlier
from the IBM driver pak worked correctly. When we hooked up the 5250,
the driver that comes with eCS for this printer had the same problem.
So just on a lark, I tried the old 1850 driver and it works perfectly.
Apparently there isn't a lot of inner difference between the older and
newer printers. This is not the first time trying drivers with
different dates has solved a problem for us. By the way, these are
Laserjet drivers we are using, not Postscript.

Beth

On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 09:39:11 -0000, dwl100tr wrote:

>--- In os2hardware{at}yahoogroups.com, "Charles and Beth Flunker"
> wrote:
>>
>> In our experience with Brother printers, it helps to try to find an
>> older or newer driver of the same kind, but a different date. For
>> instance, the driver that ships with eCS for the Brother monolaser
>> HL1850 grays out the automatic duplex, but an earlier driver for that
>> printer has it working well. 
>> 
>> YMMV
>> 
>> Beth
>> 
>> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:07:56 +0100, Kris Steenhaut wrote:
>> 
>> >dwl100tr ha scritto:
>> >>
>> >> Hi All,
>> >>
>> >> Can anyone help me with this?
>> >>
>> >> I recently bought a Brother 2070N mono laser since I had read good
>> >> reports on several websites about it's compatibility with eCS and,
>> >> using the 2060 driver (as recommended on the Hardware.ru site), it
>> >> generally works fine.
>> >>
>> >
>> >Specs tell us:
>> >
>> >EMULATION:   PCL6, IBM Proprinter, Epson FX-850
>> >
>> >So the printer is good enough by all means.
>> >
>> >My guess is the enemy aka Windy has disabled partly the PCL6
>emulation. 
>> >Or maybe uses IBM Proprinter or Epson FX-850 without your consent.
>> >
>> >I would like to advise you to detach the printer from Windy and do
>some 
>> >tests with the printer directly attached to the USB port of the eCS  
>> >computer.
>> >
>> >Also, if a resulution 360*360 would be good enough, you could consider 
>> >to install the Epson FX-850 printer driver on all systems.
>> >
>> >Incidently, as it is about PCL6, the latest HP laserdriver should
>do the 
>> >job as well.
>> >
>> >-- 
>> >Groeten uit Gent,
>> >
>> >   Kris
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > 
>> >Yahoo! Groups Links
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>>
>Hi Beth,
>
>Thanks for the reply.  I can't get any of the Laserjet drivers shipped
>with eCS 2 RC1 (haven't got past RC1 yet as it works fine for me) that
>I have tried to allow me to set the page orientation buttons.  I have
>another very old IBM box still running eCS v1.0 and I tried creating a
>printer on that using the 2060 driver and had the same problem.  I'm
>not sure where to go from here.  I think from reading some of your
>earlier posts you commented on the HL-5270?  I assume you don't have
>similar problems with that?  I have noticed that, if I install a
>Postscript driver, I can set the orientation properly but the 2070
>isn't Postscript so doesn't work!
>
>Have you had any experience with the 5240 or 5250?  I'm thinking now
>that I should have gone for one of these.
>
>Dave
>
>
>
> 
>Yahoo! Groups Links
>
>
>
>




 
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