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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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Parsing PCL for Text

Ok, so I know this is a crappy question but it has been driving me crazy all day... I have a bunch of files containing raw PCL6/PCL XL code from printing jobs run to our printers. What I need to be able to do is somehow parse them so I can search…
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PCL Format generation from pdf in java

I want to export jasperreport report in pcl format , but i didn't find a way to do it , so i generated in pdf . I want to create a class that convert this pdf to PCL5 format. So please can you give me a sarting point and suggetions . Thank you in…
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MvvmCross 3.0.8.1 Nuget Installation error

I am creating a cross-platform project for android and ios devices. I am creating a PCL on Visual Studio 2012 (I am doing as http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=He6QvnLsPUA&feature=youtu.be&t=13m13s). But when I try to install new version of MvvmCross by…
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Getting Windows Phone and HttpClient PCL working

I'm trying to use the new HttpClient PCL in a Windows Phone 7.1 project. The project is using Microsoft.Net.Http 2.1.3-beta from NuGet. Code: var client = new HttpClient(); client.BaseAddress = new Uri("http://api.geonames.org/"); var resp =…
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Extract text data from PCL using DELPHI code

I am looking for two things here... Is there a way that i can read PCL file instructions to read the formats applied to the text, like BOLD, italics, and font size etc. And I would like to know the way to extract text data without PCL instruction…
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PCL and 1200 DPI

Is it possible to send the PCL Set resolution command with 1200 dpi (and higher) as parameter? I've been looking at the spec sheets for HP PCL and it tells me that the only valid values for it are 75, 100, 150, 200, 300, 600. I am trying to print…
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how to put pcl file with correct name to win spooler

When I copy a pcl file to a windows spooler, I can't set the name and number of pages for this file in spooler. I do it from the commandline with a simple copy copy file.pcl printer How to copy the file to see it's name and nbr of pages in the…
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RightFax embedded codes: Fax number seen as invalid

Here is in essence what my PCL file looks like with embedded codes. The fax codes are embedded where they are because that's the only location where RightFax even recognizes that they exist. ^[%-12345X@PJL ... @PJL ENTER LANGUAGE=PCL ...…
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(How) can I set an offset when converting PDF to PCL with Ghostscript?

I need to shift the whole page content of a PDF a certain distance down and to the left when converting it to PCL. I've already found how to do it with PDF to PDF: How can I shift page images in PDF files more to the left or to the right? Is there…
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how to strip print control codes (PCL type) from a document using a regular expression

I have an archive of PCL files. I would like to make a console app that would read a file, strip out all print control codes, and write the codes to a separate file, leaving the rest of the document in tack. I think I can do this with a regex(), but…
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Bluetooth printing via SPP from microcontroller

We've got a self-built mobile device which can transfer data via Bluetooth SPP to a PC. On the market there are numerous devices acting as mobile printers via Bluetooth. Some of them use a custom ASCII-based printing language, e.g. the label…
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HP PCL via TCP/IP

Where can I find an example program in C to print to a network attached HP printer.
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How convert PCL generated by HP LaserJet 5 into PDF in C#?

I need to retire 15 years old system and preserve all data. It can only print documents into specific printer HP LaserJet 5. I can print documents into PCL files and looking for ways to convert all this files into PDFs programmatically. Preferably…
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Get Data sent to Printer from a Special Device

[Hi. I want to know if is it possible use a PC like a printer in order to get (or intercept) the data sent from a special machine. The situation is this: A client has a special device(Medical machine) and this device takes some measures from the…
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