Printers supporting page-level color detection
Page-level color detection is a relatively new feature for PaperCut NG (introduced in November 2008), and continues to be under active development. This feature scans each page of a document for traces of color. The grayscale discount is applied to any grayscale pages, and other pages are charged at the printer's standard rate. See Chapter 7 for more information.
Currently, PaperCut NG can perform page-level color detection with most PostScript, PCL5 and HPGL printer drivers (with PCL6 support coming soon - it's our current development project). Many manufacturers offer PostScript and PCL drivers as well as proprietary ones - check your printer manufacturer's website for availability.
Which printers support page-level color detection?
At the current time PaperCut NG's page level detection supports PCL5, HPGL and PostScript printers. This combination covers about 75% of business style network printers as most either support PostScript and/or PCL. We're also working on PCL6 at the moment and this will be available soon. Having said that, most PCL6 printers have a PCL5 (or PostScript) driver option that will suffice in the meantime.
Our goal for future support is to ensure we continue to offer page-level detection support for all PostScript/PCL variants as these are the dominant and publicly documented languages. We may consider other languages in the future if popularity demands, however the main catch is that most other languages only make up a single percentage market share and are rarely publicly documented. Where possible we suggest sticking to PostScript as this is the most mature and open standard and is the only environment that offers support for all major platforms.
See the Color Detection section of the user manual for more information:
Categories: Printers
Keywords: supported hardware, colour, interpretation