Cannot print color to a postscript printer - Help!!!! 1

[Griff1324]

Please bear in mind that I no pretty much nothing about postscript printers and their "proper" setup. Here is my situation:

- I have Pagemaker 7.0.
- I have an HP 5500 postscript printer.

When I print to the HP 5500 (PCL), it will print in color just fine. However, there is no way (at least that I know of) to perform duplexing during the print job.

When I attempt to print to the HP 5500 (PS), I first have to go under "Options" and uncheck "Write Postscript to file" in order for the "Save" button to turn into a "Print" Button. However, under the "Color" settings, I can only print to "Grayscale" or "Print Colors in Black". There is no option for "Color".

I recently took over as the IT person for this company, and this particular PC and printer worked fine before. However, I had to reformat the drive and reinstall Pagemaker and other software. Now, I cannot figure out how to get everything working the way it was before. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Chris

 

[BionicJohn]

Sounds to me like you need the correct PPD for the printer.

See these pages in the PM FAQs:
8.6 - About PPDs,
Correct PPD doesn't appear in the Print Document dialog box (PageMaker 6.0-7.x on Windows) and
8.10 - Looking for a printer driver or PPD? Mac or Win?



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