Elaboration on KX, Mini PCL and Mini PDL Drivers

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  • scoobysteve
    Trusted Tech

    100+ Posts
    • Jun 2008
    • 163
    #1

    Elaboration on KX, Mini PCL and Mini PDL Drivers

    hi all,

    I'm trying to get my head around the many different kyocera drivers that they have.

    I understand the KX driver is the standard driver and I generally load this driver. However i notice that in the "Device Settings" tab there is a button called "PDL". I noticed that you can switch between your page description languages PCL5e, PCL XL and KPDL. By default PCL XL is used so my understanding is that the printer is using PCL6 language. If I change the PDL to KPDL would I have to change the emulation on the printer itself to KPDL as PCL6 is the default. What relationship is there between the PDL on the driver and the Emulation setting on the printer?

    In other cases, i've been advised to load the mini-PCL drivers if the KX ones are giving me grief. I noticed this has solved many of my problems. My understanding of the mini-PCL drivers are that they are a no-frills driver package that only contains the settings needed to print - no fancy stuff. Would this be equivalent to PCL5e?

    lastly, when would you use the mini-PDL driver? Because the kyocera printers come with KPDL, it seems no matter which Kyocera driver you use, they all work so what is the need for mini-PDL (Apple Macs?)?

    Please let me know your thoughts. thanks
    Tags: advised, ali, cases, drivers, kx driver, pcl, pdl, script, understanding
    • blackcat4866
      Master Of The Obvious

      Site Contributor
      10,000+ Posts
      • Jul 2007
      • 22917
      #2
      When you specify the emulation it's best to specify in the print driver and always leave the printer defaulted to auto. This prevents PostScript errors if one of your endusers gets creative and changes the emulation in his driver.

      It is fantastic that Kyocera provides us with so many driver options. Certain applications work better with one driver or one emulation than another.

      Most of the Kyocera mini-drivers have all the functionality, just a bare-bones interface, requiring a little more thought on the part of the enduser. My more technically oriented endusers prefer the mini-drivers.

      I know of no specific niche for the mini-pdl.

      The more I work with print drivers, the more I find that every driver has at least a few bugs hidden, just waiting for that one situation when the customer wants to punch, sort, staple, from only one tray, only one application, etc, etc. =^..^=
      If you'd like a serious answer to your request:
      1) demonstrate that you've read the manual
      2) demonstrate that you made some attempt to fix it.
      3) if you're going to ask about jams include the jam code.
      4) if you're going to ask about an error code include the error code.
      5) You are the person onsite. Only you can make observations.

      blackcat: Master Of The Obvious =^..^=

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        • HPLEXKYOPT
          Technician
          • May 2009
          • 18
          #3
          Each of the drivers formats the job differently.

          The PCL mini driver process's the print job into the smallest format possible, but generally will not give you as higher detail in "picture" processing, ie simple gray scale.

          The KPDL mini driver (Kyocera Postscript emulation) will give better gray scale shading, but also can make the job much larger.

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