Several PCL XL errors

[Palagast]

I have clients (win95/98), a printer server (win2k) and a printer (Mita PointSource VI 310).
The clients are connected through a token ring network, as is the printer. The fileserver is located on a new ethernet segment, which is connected to the token ring segment with a Cisco 3600. The printers are connected to the token ring segment with different HP JetDirect network interfaces.
I'm using the Mita Vi230/310 PCL 5e drivers

Printing goes everything but smoothly. Sometimes the printers say "Data is being processed" (might not be the exact phrase, it's a translation) after sending a print job and nothing further happens untill you turn it off and on again. After the off and on, the first thing that happens is either a load (50+) garbage prints or a PCL XL error.
So far I've collected 3 different ones:
Subsystem: KERNEL
Error: IllegalTag
Operator: 0x1b
Position: 123

Subsystem: KERNEL
Error: IllegalOperatorSequence
Operator: SetCharSubMode
Position: 1099

Subsystem: KERNEL
Error: UnsupportedBinding
Operator: 0x0
Position: 0

Any hints/clues on what it can be or where to look?
Thanks in advance.

 

[DansDadUK]

I think that the PCLXL errors are probably a consequence of the off/on action, rather than a symptom or cause.

It is rather odd that you are getting PCLXL (PCL6) errors when you claim to be using a PCL5e driver (the languages are totally different: PCL6 is not a superset of PCL5).

Assuming that your print stream really is PCL5, I can only assume that something in the stream is either processor-intensive (e.g. precise positioning of each character, or complex graphics), or memory-intensive (e.g. raster graphics), or that the stream does not include a page eject sequence (but then I'd expect it to print after a timeout period); otherwise it seems to suggest a corrupt stream.

Perhaps a 'print to file' then analysis of the results would yield some clues (that is, if you could be sure of reproducing the problem at will).

 

[paleogryph]

I had a similar "PCL XL error" with an older Kyocera-Mita KM-6230 printing from Acrobat 6 Pro on XP Home. According to Mita the problem was that both the printer (via lcd menu) and the printer driver needed to be set to KPDL mode instead of PCL XL. In the driver go to properties, device settings, PDL.


>Think for yourself<
...or someone else will do it for you.

 

[DansDadUK]

I think that setting the mode to KPDL probably just causes you to use Kyocera's implementation of PostScript, so by doing this you are not using PCLXL anyway.