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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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Howto make a roto-translation in PCL if I have the angle and the axis?

I want to make a translation of a point cloud, currently I have the vector of the axis and I also have the angle. Can I construct automatically the matrix or I have to calculate it by manually like this? In the PCL example they use a MAtrix 4x4 that…
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ghostPCL: why is this file not converted properly to PDF?

I am using ghostpcl-9.18-win64. This is the script that I used to generate the pdf file: gpcl6win64-9.18.exe -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=%1.pdf -dNOPAUSE %1.txt The file to test can be found here and the result of running ghostpcl can be found…
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Is it feasable to translate a Chinese HP Driver to english?

I apologize for the naivety of this question, I've some programming experience, but none writing drivers. We have an older HP DesignJet 5000ps plotter. The only Windows 7 driver we were able to find for it is in Chinese... which works ok until we…
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Printers common interface

What is a common printer interface today? I've read most of them support PostScript and/or PCL. How should I use PS/PCL from an app code (say, under Win32)?
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I Need to write a program to draw a graph using HP PCL 5e/HP/GL2

I have read an example and tried to duplicate it's methods but with weird results. This is a 1 shot deal so I do not want to buy a package to do this. Also, it will be executed on a Multi-Valued database in a Basic that not many programmers write in…
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Convert several thousands Word doc into single PCL file

Our customer has tens of thousands of correspondence letters in Word 2007 format. They need to combine all the letters into a single large PCL file, which is then sent to the print vendor for bulk printing. From what i understand PCL content is…
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Extract text from PCL6 using Java

I don't have much knowledge regarding PCL6 file format. I wanted to know if there is any way to extract text out of PCL6 file using Java. Thanks, Usman
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LiveCycle Designer - Printer Tray mapping

I'm trying to do so when you print from Adobe Acrobat/Reader it prints to a specific tray/bin in the printer. I just want to change the LiveCycle Design settings and not the Workbench settings. Also, I'm sending a PDF that converts to a PCL and then…
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Printer driver which number repersent B5 pages in PCL

i want program a printer driver.use the pcl for my driver.PCL has one command represent the page types.in PCL number 9 represent A4.i want to know which number represent B5 in PCL.
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GhostPDL convert PCL with asian fonts

I need to convert PCL to PDF documents with Asian fonts. I can not find information on this type of PCL fonts. I have no problems with pdf and Ps documents, as I have configured Ghostscript (cifmap and environment variables). Thanks in advance
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How to convert a flattened PDF to PCL in LiveCycle process?

I am looking to convert a non-XFA PDF to PCL in a Workbench process and am not having any luck with geneartePrintedOutput service. I retrieve a flattened PDF from Contentspace (using retrieveContent) and need to convert the non-XFA PDF to PCL…
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HowTo print with Qt5 without driver (PostScript / PCL)

I'm developing a application that should run on an embedded device. The app should be able to communicate with different printers, without deploying a driver for each. That's why I figured out, that PostScript or PCL are good options for me. Since…
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pcl6.exe v9.15 silently converting APOSTROPHE => RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK

Good afternoon. I am running pcl6.exe version 9.15 on Windows 8.1. I am running into a problem where pcl6.exe in silently converting any APOSTROPHE characters into RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK characters using the 16602 typeface in a PCL5 file. Here…
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Use azure Blob storage from PCL with Windows Phone Silverlight 8.0

I'm currently writing an app which will target multiple platforms thanks to xamarin. The logic of the app in in a PCL and I'm using a WPF app as a frontend to test the PCL. I need to connect to my BLOB storage account which works perfectly from the…
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Encode fonts in winansi with GhostPCL in PCL to PDF conversion

I'm trying to create a PDF with fonts encoded as winansi instead of custom. The source file is PCL and I use ghostpcl to convert it to PDF using pdfwrite device. The PDF is created successfully. However, the font encoding (when checked with…
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