Postscript printing simulate on a HP printer

I am trying to print a billing document via sapscript
on a HP 4100N Laser Jet. Whrn I use a PS printer
driver, I get output to spool where the TemSe
attributes show data type = OTFPOST. The SP01 list
show the output as complete, without errors. However,
no output is physically printed.
Hi there,
If I change the printer driver to a PCL driver, I get
output to spool where the TemSe attributes show data
type = OTFHPL2. The SP01 list show the output as
complete, without errors. The output is physically
printed O.K. Is it possible to output OTFPOST type via
the HP 4100N? The documentation suggests that it is
and the printer should automatically cope with both
data types. Does anyone have any ideas please? If the HP printer is set with a PCL device type, the layout set prints two characters to the right and in some cases, the last two characters are dropped. I do not really want to have to physically change the printable area of the layout set. According to the HP documentation, it should be possible to emulate PS from the HP printer but I cannot figure out how. i have also tied changing the X and Y co-ordinates of the printer but no success.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks
Kenny

Hi,
According to the specs, you would want to use the priority feed slot, one sheet of labels at a time (Letter Size or A4 Size sheet, no mention on the quantity of labels per sheet).
Specs Doc
http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/document?docname=c01995860&tmp_task=prodinfoCategory&cc=us&dlc=en...
When printing, just adjust the driver settings to match the media you are using - regardless of what is in the main input tray, if the sheet is loaded in the priority feed slot, it will feed that first.
If you need further information, please let me know.
Hope this helps
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