Printing LabView 2010 in Windows 7

[RussWalker]

I recently upgraded to LabView 2010 and Windows 7 and now I cannot print my anything from within LabView, I have to pdf the page and then print the pdf.  All other applications print fine.  When I print from LabView I get the following on my printer:

PCL XL error

Subsystem: KERNEL

Error: Illegal Tag

Operator: PassThrough

Position: 15

[altenbach]

Are you using a windows 7 print driver or something old? Have you tried different printers (e.g. "to xps"(?) that comes with w7)? What is your printer model? What are your option settings for printing?

[RussWalker]

Yes, I am using the Windows 7 print drivers, you pretty much can't use anything else except generic drivers.  It is a brand new HP CP2025dn that I bought specifically because my older HP K550 didn't work either.  I have not set any of the options, just using it right out of the box.  The K500 worked under LabView 2009 and Windows XP but quit when I upgraded them.

A co-worker has suggested that it may be in need of a special character set?

[David_L]

Are you using 64-bit or 32-bit LabVIEW and are you using 32-bit or 64-bit windows?  

You mention you get that error text on your printer, is that on a display screen on the printer or does it actually print that?  

How are you exporting it to a PDF?

Have you tried printing to any other printer other than HP?  I remember last year someone had a really strange printer issue that only affected HP printers on LabVIEW 2009 32-bit in Vista 64-bit.  I was able to reproduce it with pretty much any HP printer, but other printers worked fine.  Maybe this is somehow related.  

[RussWalker]

Hi David,

64 bit Win7, 32 bit LabView.

The five lines are printed on the paper, the display does not show any error.

I have sent it to pdf and printed the pdf without problem.

I have tried it on two different printers but both were HP so that might be a lead!

Russ

[RussWalker]

I just tried printing to two Ricoh networked printers and all I get out of them is garbage.

HELP!

[David_L]

So I just tried printing on a coworkers computer which is 64-bit windows 7 and 32-bit LabVIEW 2010 and it printed fine to our printer.  Any idea if 64-bit LabVIEW prints alright for you?  Do you have any other 32-bit applications that you can try printing with?  Most likely anything installed into the Program Files (x86) directory are 32-bit native applications.  Maybe this is an issue with passing the printer information through the Windows on Windows engine.  

Very bizarre...