Driver feature comparison in various operating systems

The following tables detail the software features available for each driver type and for each supported operating system that the HP Color LaserJet 3500 series printers support. The printing system driver for Windows 2000 and Windows XP is the new HP host-based unidriver, with a user interface look and feel that is consistent across the PCL 5c, PCL 6, and PS drivers. The printing-system drivers for Windows 98, Windows Me, and Windows NT 4.0 are the HP traditional PCL 5c and PCL 6 drivers and the HP traditional PS driver.

Job stream output

Table 21: Driver support for job stream output feature

Operating

 

Windows XP

Windows NT

Windows 98,

Macintosh

system

 

(32-bit),

4.0

Me

 

 

 

Windows 2000

 

 

 

Driver type

DMC Config Editor

HP

HP

HP

Mac

 

 

host-based

host-based

host-based

host-based

 

 

unidriver

driver

driver

driver

PCL 6 support

 

 

 

 

 

PCL 6 pass-

 

 

 

 

 

through support

 

 

 

 

 

XL3.0

 

 

 

 

 

XL Color

 

 

 

 

 

PS 3

 

 

 

 

 

PS 1, 2

 

 

 

 

 

Color LaserJet

 

X

X

X

X

3500

 

 

 

 

 

PRN File driver

 

X

X

X

 

identification

 

 

 

 

 

PJL

 

X

X

X

X

24-bit sRGB

 

X

X

X

X

UTF-8

 

X

X

?

?

encoding for

 

 

 

 

 

PJL

 

 

 

 

 

Job Accounting

Table 22: Driver support for job accounting feature

 

 

Windows XP

Windows NT

Windows 98,

Macintosh

 

 

(32-bit),

4.0

Me

 

 

 

Windows

 

 

 

 

 

2000

 

 

 

Driver type

DMC Config Editor

HP

HP host-based

HP

Mac

 

 

host-based

driver

host-based

host-based

 

 

unidriver

 

driver

driver

Job Accounting

 

X

X

X

?

Information

 

 

 

 

 

Unicode for

 

 

 

 

?

Job Accounting

 

 

 

 

 

Born on Date

 

X

X

X

?

(PJL DMINFO)

 

 

 

 

 

Born on Date

 

 

 

 

 

(PJL

 

 

 

 

 

TIMESTAMP)

 

 

 

 

 

138

Driver feature comparison in various operating systems

Software Technical Reference ENWW