Color PCL in macOS

It is quite a surprise that if you have a HP color laser printer, and you’re trying to use the PCL protocol to print, you will only print in black and white. If it is print using PostScript language, you can get the color. There is not an option for the PCL driver to choose between outputing mono and color, although the printer supports both. To fix, there is an instruction on github gist:

https://gist.github.com/mrmanc/0182c6b86d68361c6e35

Basically the steps are the following:

1. Get a PPD file from http://www.openprinting.org/driver/pxlcolor
2. Turn on CUPS web interface by the command cupsctl WebInterface=yes
3. Use the CUPS web interface, instead of the System Preferences dialog, to add a printer. Only from there, you can provide a PPD file for the printer.
4. Viola

Always, lpstat is your friend to see the printers in command line.