Printer Compatibility

We have had a few inquiries about Lightspeed VS-to-PC Print Services and compatibility with certain inexpensive consumer-grade inkjet and laser printers. Most of these use host-based printing such as HP PPA (Printing Performance Architecture) and LIDIL (Lightweight Imaging Device Interface Language) or Canon CAPT and are not supported.

Most GDI printers (printers with Windows Graphical Device Interface commands driver, or so called Windows printers) except some HP models that also support PCL also fall into this category. Any printer using GDI, PPA, LIDIL or any future host-based protocols should be assumed to be incompatible with Lightspeed VS-to-PC Print Services unless they also have a PCL mode.

Our policy, at this time, is not to support these printers. They are typically unsuitable for commercial use and the protocols have a tendency to be short-lived (as was the defunct HP PPA).

HP LIDIL is the current experiment in progress. We found some information on this protocol here. The crucial information from this site is ...

Some newer low-end HP printers support instead of PCL a "host-based" protocol known as LIDIL (Lightweight Imaging Device Interface Language), which is advertised with LDL in the CMD: (command set) field of the device ID string. Such models do not support printing ASCII text.

Notes

"Unsupported" here means the printer models are known, or suspected, to be unable to be supported by Lightspeed VS-to-PC Print Services.

Unsupported Printer Models:

• ALPS AlpsLSX-1600
• Brother DCP-1000, MP-21C, WL-660, MFC-3100c
• Canon BJC 610, 620, 5000, 5100, 8000, 8050
• Canon Colour Bubble Jet Printer i9100
• Canon i455, i475D, i860 Desktop Photo Printer
• Canon FAX L350
• Canon LBP 250, 430W, 460, 600, 660, 800, 810, 1110, 1120, 1210, 2410, 3200 series
• Canon MFP (Multi Function Printer) PC 1200 series, MultiPASS L6000
• Citizen NoteBOOKII/PN48
• Epson Stylus Scan 2000, 2500
• Epson AcuLaser C900, C1000, EPL-5700L, 5800L
• HP DeskJet 710, 720, 820, 855, 895, 1000, 1200, 3300, 3400 series (Host-based/GDI)
• HP DeskJet 3550 Color Inkjet series
• HP LaserJet 1000, 1005, 1010, 1012, 1015, 1020, 1150, 1200, 1200n, 1220, 3100, 3150 series (Host-based/GDI)
• HP Color LaserJet 1500, 2500, 2550L, 3500 series (Host-based/GDI)
• Konica Minolta-QMS PagePro 6L, 18L, 1100L, 1250W, 1300W, 1350W, Color PagePro
• L, Magicolor 2300W, 6100, DeskLaser/2, DeskLaser Plus/2, DeskLaser Duplex, DI1610, DI1611
• Lexmark Z12, Z22, Z23, Z31, Z32, Z33, Z82, 2050 ColorJet Printers, Winwriter 100/150c/200
• Lexmark X63, X73, X74, X75, X83, X85 All-in-One Printers
• Lexmark X215 MFP
• Lexmark E210 laser printer
• Lexmark Optra C710, Optra E, E+, E310, Optra K1220, Optra M410, M412, Optra N, Optra R+, Optra S1250, Optra S1855, Optra SC-1275, Optra SE-3455, OptraT614, Optra W810
• Nec SuperScript 610plus/660/660plus
• Olivetti PG304
• OKI Page 8W
• Panasonic KX-P6300, KX-P6500, KX-P7100 Laser Beam Printers
• Samsung SmartGDI/PassThru printers: ML-85G, ML-200, ML-210, ML-1000, ML-1010, ML-1020, ML-1200, ML-1210, ML-1220, ML-1710, ML-4500, ML-5050G, ML-5080, ML-6040, QL-85G (GDI)
• Samsung CLP-500/500N/550/550N (SPL-C, GDI Equivalent)
• Sharp AJ 2100, AL 1000/800/840/F880/121

Prospective printers will need to have compatibility modes for at least one of the following:

• HP Laserjet, HPLJ2, HPLJ3 or HPLJ4 (HP PCL)
• IBM Pro Printer
• Epson FX/LQ

Complete list of printer drivers available within Lightspeed VS-to-PC Print Services:

• ALPS P2000G/P2100G
• Adobe PostScript Cartridge
• Apple LaserWriter
• Canon LBP4
• Canon LBP8/III
• Epson FX Series
• Epson LQ Series
• Generic Line Printer
• Generic Postscript 3 trays
• HP IIIsi
• HP IIIsi PostScript
• HP LaserJet 4
• HP LaserJet 4 Postscript
• HP LaserJet II
• HP LaserJet IID (2 trays)
• HP LaserJet IID (3 trays)
• HP LaserJet III
• HP LaserJet III Postscript
• HP LaserJet IIID
• HP LaserJet IIIP
• HP LaserJet IIP
• HP LaserJet Plus
• IBM Pro Printer
• Pacific Page PostScript
• Panasonic Matrix
• Wang LCS15
• Wang LCS8
• Wang LDP8
• Wang PM015
• Wang PM018