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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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ghostscript convert pdf to pcl with wrong orientation

I have an issue trying to convert a pdf document to a pcl document using Ghostscript. The original pdf document is landscape and so the pcl should be as well. Nevertheless in windows using Ghostscript 9.14 with the following command…
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C# RAW Printing

I have a requirement whereby I need to be able to send an image to a printer. The problem I have is that the target printer (and type) is not necessarily know at the time of printing and we could be sending to a zebra/intermec label printer or a…
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how do i set the image to high quality when converting to PCL using PHP Imagick (ImageMagick)

Here is the code: $im=new Imagick(); $im->readImageBlob($pdf_data); $im->setImageFormat('pcl'); $b64pages = array(); for ($x = 1;$x <= $im->getNumberImages(); $x++) { $im->previousImage(); $pclpage = $im->getImageBlob(); $b64page =…
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Printing on lpt port from command prompt

I'm printing on an lpt port from the command prompt. Printer is hp2050 (pcl6). I use this command to print on port 1: copy con lpt1 then I give it some text to print: "Hello there!" Then I "throw" the page (print it): ^Z (ctrl + Z) But…
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Using GhostPCL to converting PCL with images to PDF

I'm currently attempting to convert some PCL files into PDF using GhostPCL (PCL6). For the most part this works. However, there is an odd problem with some of the conversion. For some reason, PCL6 is not converting some logos where are at the top of…
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Would controlling a Mobile/Belt Printer via Bluetooth from a Xamarin solution be easier from Android or WP8?

We are in the process of deciding whether our port of a legacy Compact Framework/Windows CE app (potentially cross-platform, thus using Xamarin in Visual Studio) should be done first for Android or Windows Phone 8 (iOS is on the "back burner"). I…
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Is there anyway in vb.net to print a PDF to a file such as a pcl or postscript?

I am trying to write a series of functions to print different file formats to a file rather than directly, I am struggling with PDFs and was wondering if anyone knew of a way to convert or print a PDF to a file (PS, PCL etc.)
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Is there a way to print a file and don't do anything to the file

Is there a way to print a file to a custom printer and do nothing to the file. I mean, could I print a pdf-file and just have the file be sent through the printer as a pdf file, instead of as a postscript or a pcl file? Or I mean could I catch the…
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Which PDL Canon IP2780 can support?

i'm a developer, i want to write driver for Canon IP2780, i had known GARO UFR. but i want to konw which PDL Canon IP2780 can support ? like HP printer, i can find which PDL it can support, but i fond nothing about Canon printer. such as HP…
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Count pages in PCL with GhostPDL 9.x

I used to Count pages in a pcl file using the GhostPDL (pcl6.exe) in Version 8.71. pcl6.exe -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=nullpage -g10x10 -C file.prn which produced a %%PageCount: 10 for instance. Now I updated to 9.10 Version and found that my usual code…
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Print WPF Page to a PCL File in C#

I would like to print a WPF page to a PCL file (so that it can be faxed). Is there a reasonable way to do this in the code or should I just print out to a PCL printer driver? (I am inclined towards the print driver, but if there is a cleaner…
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Can not convert PDF file to PCL after insert image into PDF file

I have an original PDF file (one page) and one transparent background image. After I using Zend Pdf to insert image into PDF file, I would like to print this PDF file (including transparent background image). I using ghostscript (or convert) in UNIX…
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print to file from c#

How can I generate a .pcl file from c# ? Suppose i have a text file, or an xls file and I want to print it, I can check the print to file chekbox and i get a file with extension .pcl. How can I achieve this from code, from c#? Most printer drivers…
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Converting PDF to Color PCL 5 with Ghostscript

I'm using Ghostscript 9.09 and try create PCL 5 with color, but only get a mono file. What are the correct arguments for this problem? Passing the following…
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Print raster image with PCL in vb.net

I'm trying to print a raster image using PCL in vb.net. I have the first few commands to start PCL: Imports Microsoft.VisualBasic.PowerPacks.Printing.Compatibility.VB6 Module Module1 Sub Main() Dim bytes As Integer = 57 Dim f22…
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