Driver-feature comparison in various operating systems
The following tables detail the software features that are available for each driver type and for each
supported operating system that the HP Color LaserJet 3600 supports. The printing-system driver for
Windows 98 and Windows Me is theHP Traditional host-based driver. The printing-system driver for
Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 is the HP JetReady 4.2 host-based driver.
For more information about the HP Traditional host-based driver, see
HP Traditional host-based driver
for Windows. For more information about the HP JetReady 4.2 host-based driver, see
HP JetReady 4.2 host-based driver for Windows.
NOTE HP Color LaserJet 3600 print driver features are supported in both the 32-bit and the
64-bit versions of the Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 operating systems.
HP Color LaserJet 3600 print driver features are supported in Mac OS X V10.1.5 or later, except
as otherwise noted.
Raster compression
Table 7-10 Color raster compression support
Operating system Windows XP,
Windows 2000,
Windows Serve
r 2003
Windows 98,
Windows Me
Mac OS X
Driver type HP JetReady 4.
2 host-based
driver
HP Traditional
host-based
driver
Macintosh
Driver Host-based Host-based Host-based
Color raster compression x x
PJL/PJL Encoding
Table 7-11 Printer Job Language (PJL) and PJL encoding
Operating system Windows XP,
Windows 2000,
Windows Serve
r 2003
Windows 98,
Me
Macintosh
Driver type HP JetReady 4.
2 host-based
driver
HP Traditional
host-based
driver
Macintosh
Driver Host-based Host-based Host-based
PJL support x x x
UTF-8 encoding for PJL (Unicode to 8-bit) x
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