HP
LaserJet 1012
600
600
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FastRaster
Hewlett-Packard
hp LaserJet 1012
B
hplip
To get all functionality of this printer working under Linux,
especially also the non-printing features, like printer status and
toner level, use the <a
href="show_driver.cgi?driver=hplip">HPLIP driver
package from HP</a>.<p>
Cheap, compact desktop laser printer, foldable tray for 150
sheets, A4/Letter/Legal, up to 14 pages/min. Somewhat faster than
the LaserJet 1010, "Fastres 1200" resolution enhancement.<p>
HP classifies this printer as "host-based" whereas they claim the
HP LaserJet 1015 to understand PCL 5e. But the HP LaserJet 1010
and 1012 seem to understand a stripped-down (raster-graphics only,
no text) variant of PCL 5e.<p>
Rick Richardson (rickr at mn dot rr dot com), author of the
"foo2zjs" driver (driver for the HP LaserJet 1000/1005),
has examined the output of the Windows driver for this printer and
found out that the language looks like PJL + PCL 6 (see report
on the HP forum on OpenPrinting).<p>
Adam (madaman at web dot de) reports on the HP forum on
OpenPrinting that the HP LaserJet 1010 works for him with all
raster drivers for the HP LaserJet 1100 (HPLIP,
"ljet4", "lj4dith", "gimp-print"). Adam tried also PCL-6 drivers
("lj5gray", "pxlmono") but without success.<p>
Unfortunately, the new LaserJet 1010/1012 series seems not to
be absolutely compatible with older HP printers or it has a
firmware bug. Sometimes it happens that the printer stops working
and reports the error "<tt>Unsupported Personality:
PCL</tt>". It only continues working when one kills the job
and power-cycles the printer.<p>
The problem of the "<tt>Unsupported Personality:
PCL</tt>" was finally solved by Carl Michal (michal at
physics dot ubc dot ca). By analyzing the output of the Windows
driver he found out that after the BeginSession operator in the
beginning of a PCL 6 job a special sequence of 8 bytes has to be
added. He added it by a filter to the output of Ghostscript's
"pxlmono" driver and from then on the printer worked (Implemented
as the "pxl1010" driver on this site).<p><p>
Consumables/Refills: Toner and drum in one cartridge (18000 pages)<p>