Questions tagged [printer-control-language]

This tag relates to questions pertaining to PCL. PCL or Printer Control Language has been developed by Hewlett Packard and is now the de-facto standard for printer languages (laser and ink). Note: For questions about the Portable Class Library, use the tag [portable-class-library] instead, and the tag [point-cloud-library] for questions about the Point Cloud Library.

PCL has several versions. The most used versions are PCL3 (for ink devices) PCL5 and PCL6 for Laser devices. PCL has a binary file format and consists of command/data sets. The commands comprise of page, text, vector and raster commands.

Refer to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_Command_Language for more details.

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Ghostpcl PCL to PDF conversion shading resolution

i am trying to us Ghostpcl to convert pcl files to pdf on linux. In the main, this is working well and the majority of documents are converting well. However, some documents have boxes and shading and these are not rendering well at all. The…
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PJL status readback commands

How to receive respond on Windows from printer after send PJL command? I tried to spy network printer with WireShark and read printer socket directly but nothing work.
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Print XML as PDF using PCL

I have an xml file with which i want to print as a PDF using PCL. I am new to PCL. Can i use PCL to get the xml printed in PDF format directly or should i have some intermediate process to create a PDF file and then use PCL to get it printed as PDF?
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How to use right gutenprint driver in ghostscript?

For a research project about printing nanofluids with an Piezo electric printer I want to see the the code that the computer sends to the printer. I am running Ubuntu 16.04 and have an Epson Stylus SX600FW printer. Using Ghostscript 9.18 I want to…
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LPR: what is the location of the file that will be sent to the printer?

For a research project about printing nanofluids I need some more control over my Epson Stylus SX600FW. I am sending a file to the printer using lpr test.ps, then it is in the print queue. Now I want to see the file (in pdl?) that the printer driver…
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Ubuntu16.04 run pcl in sublime text3, "fatal error: usr/include/pcl-1.7/pcl/point_types.h: No such file or directory"

I am new to C++ and pcl. I use Ubuntu 16.04. I just want to try pcl PFH estimation. And I need to use two files:point_types.h and features/pfh.h. I included them at the top of my .cpp file: "include usr/include/pcl-1.7/pcl/point_types.h" "include…
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Xamarin Form: Is Google Drive File Dialog available?

I have get the Android to load a file dialog for google drive after authorization. Now I have to do it on Xamarin Form but unable to find a file picker for google drive. Does google drive have a file picker for Xamarin Form. public void…
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Navigating in PCL using Prism

I'm building a UWP application with PCL using prism. PCL contains the ViewModels UWP contains the Views My problem is I cannot use INavigationService in the PCL so I can't really navigate to other pages. Here is my code: MainPage.xaml (in UWP…
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Xamarin WCF Rasining NotImplementedException on FaultException BUG

I think I've found a bug in Xamarin regarding WCF Client. It seems like Xamarin doesn't like FaultException's which include a FaultActor element. My SLSVCUTIL generated client resides in a PCL (Profile 78). Referencing this PCL is IOS project. My…
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ghostscript to convert a ps file to pcl loosing tray settings

I'm using the below command to convert ps to pcl but the pcl when printed doesn't have the tray settings anymore, is there anyway of retaining them? "gswin32c.exe" -sDEVICE=ljet4 -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -dQUIET -sOutputFile="c:\t.pcl" "c:\t.ps" e.g. in…
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Converting Image To PCL And Printing Via Bluetooth

Problem: Using an Android device, without internet / network connection, I have to print images to a bluetooth enabled printer. Be aware that this is the business case — I cannot use Google Cloud Print, nor can I use PrinterShare or anything else…
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Undeclared identifiers in C

I've been trying to compile a program that uses PCL. However, I keep getting this error: test.c:23: error: ‘PCL_CNT_TYPE’ undeclared (first use in this function) test.c:23: error: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once test.c:23: error:…
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Print PDF programmatically - C# WinForms

I need to print a SSRS report in PDF format from a WinForms application written in C#. The report is a PDF document (containing text, images & tables), in a byte array - and I don't want to save it to disk for security/performance reasons. The…
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Separate objects in a point cloud

I am looking to Separate a point cloud into unconnected objects, I have tried using k-means algorithm, but it didn't do the whole job. I'm looking to improve the results shown in the picture i added. any thoughts or directions? My cloud, separated…
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Linking errors with qt pcl and vtk

I am trying to compile the PCL tutorial described here and I am facing these linking errors. Linking CXX executable pcl_visualizer usr/lib/libpq.so.5: undefined reference to SSL_get_peer_certificate@OPENSSL_1.0.0' usr/lib/libvtkIO.so.5.8.0:…
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