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  1. November 10th, 2004, 05:23 AM #1
    ddeane
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    HPGL Win2K Drivers

    The HP7475 will not work with HPGL/2 it needs HPGL/1 -- period!

    I am also looking for a HPGL/1 driver for Win2000.

    I have surfed a few forums and the stock answer is usually 'get a new plotter' or use HPGL/2! The problem in my case, and I expect many others, is where a program uses the HP7475 as a virtual plotter to plot to file, for some sort of post processing.

    The HPGL/1 code is character based and easy to process.

    Most CAD/ graphics programs will directly import HPGL/1 but not HPGL/2.

    The only option I have found (not tried) is to spend $200 :-( on a propriety driver from http://www.winline.com
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  2. November 10th, 2004, 10:47 AM #2
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    Quote Originally Posted by ddeane
    The HP7475 will not work with HPGL/2 it needs HPGL/1 -- period!

    I am also looking for a HPGL/1 driver for Win2000.

    I have surfed a few forums and the stock answer is usually 'get a new plotter' or use HPGL/2! The problem in my case, and I expect many others, is where a program uses the HP7475 as a virtual plotter to plot to file, for some sort of post processing.

    The HPGL/1 code is character based and easy to process.

    Most CAD/ graphics programs will directly import HPGL/1 but not HPGL/2.

    The only option I have found (not tried) is to spend $200 :-( on a propriety driver from http://www.winline.com

    Hi, ddeane,

    Yes, it's odd that most other items of hardware seem to be catered for by new O/Ss, and I can't see why the HP7475 (and, I suppose, other old HP devices) should be singled out to be rejected for software reasons. I suspect that if we were to dig, we would find that HP tried to retain commercial control of the graphic market at some time by keeping their language commercially protected, and banned 3rd party drivers.

    I currently deal with the problem by driving the plotter from a W98 machine, and passing plots to a holding file on it from other systems on the network. These then have to be manually loaded onto a graphics package on the W98 machine and printed from there.

    I wonder if anyone has produced a translator which can take in HPGL and output HPGL/2? That might help.
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