ghostpcl mswinpr2

Question

I am having difficulties to print a pcl file to a gdi printer via ghostpcl. On some forums a suggested solution is to set mswinpr2 as the output device. This should produce GDI output for a windows printer. The problem is, there seems to be no mswinpr2 built into ghostpcl. When running ghostpcl -? there is no such device listed. Can anyone clarify this?

Answer 1

I'm not sure what version you are using, but for me the executable is called pcl6.exe, not ghostpcl. In any event the mswinpr2 device is not built into the PCL interpreter by default. While it may work with the PCL interpreter, it depends how the device was written. If you want to use it you'll have to build GhostPCL from source.