My guess is the bits inside Reader cannot correctly convert PDF to PCL, thus the "filter failed" error message. I am a retired software engineer, 31 years experience, the last 5 with Google, so I can read English (Spanish and French too) and can follow instructions, but I conclude the Adobe print function in the MacOS version (11.0.23) is the squirriest piece of printer functionality ever written. I have invested many hours, at leasrt 25 researching and trying reported solutions, all for naught. I have tried every remedy reported on the net renove printer, reset printer system, restart machine, add new printer, again and again ad infinitum. Why sometimes and not others is a mystery. On occassion (meaning not every time) the file actually will print when I restart the machine, as if MacOS recognized an unfinished task and restarted it. The quene entry usually says something like "28% file prited," but the print function is completely stalled. I can see the aborted file in the printer queue but nothing, and I mean nothing will get that file to print. If I try to print a PDF from Adobe the file fails to print usually with a "filter failed" notation in the error log. The only way I can print any PDF is to open the PDF file in Preview. I can again print any file type from any application running in MacOS and/or Windows stuff in VirtualBox except PDF in Adobe reader. MANUFACTURER:Hewlett-Packard COMMAND SET:PJL,MLC,PCL,PCLXL MODEL:HP LaserJet 5 CLASS:PRINTER DESCRIPTION:Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 5
Absolutely no problem to add and share printer in MacOS as generic PCL type. Acquired a USB to parallel cable and connected the printer to a USB port on a hub connected to my Pro.
It was a very good machine, state of the art at the time I built it, with Tyan 2x processor MB vintage 2001. Never had a single failure until an electrical storm this spring with a nearby lightning strike fried that XP machine. For years I printed any type of document from my MacBook Pro running MacOS 10.13.6 to a LaserJet 5 with parallel connection installed on a Windows XP machine used solely as a print server.
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