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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Java - PDF to PCL

In my company, we're looking for a way to convert a PDF document into a PCL (Printer Command Language) file in Java. This is our workflow: Generate a PDF document in memory (meaning it's stored as a byte array) Convert the byte array into PCL, in…
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Postscript driver for Android?

I am looking to program an Android app which is simply a print driver that converts a file to postscript and/or PCL and then sends it to a network printer. My first concern is printing pdf files. Do any of you know of a Java (or I guess I could…
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How can I show an pdf file in xamarin pcl uwp that is outside my instal folder?

Hy, I'm working in a Xamarin PCL project with the platforms Android and UWP. As a feature the user should be able to open an pdf file. For this I'm using Mozilla pdf.js. I have followed this link to get it done on Android and…
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PCL (Printer Command Language) parsing in python

How to read/parse .pcl files (Printer Command Language) in python?
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Can I print PCL5 escape sequences to non-PCL host-based printer?

I have HP LJ P1005 printer which is non-PCL (host-based) printer. It has a dedicated driver link to the driver. It is not supported by HP universal print driver (HP-UPD) which supports PCL5. A list of supported UPD printers My question is how can I…
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PCL visualizer addPointCloud() crashes

I'm trying to create a simple application using QT to display point clouds. However the PCL visualizer crashes at pviz.addPointCloud(cloud_xyz,"cloud1"); Is there are initializations that I am missing? #include…
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Printing a pcl file in c# not working, suggestions?

I'm trying to print a pcl file programatically in c#. I'm using the following Microsoft link for reference. (Note it's in VB) http://support.microsoft.com/kb/298141 Unfortunatly, it's not work .. I'm only getting blank pages printed. Note that…
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PCL raster color graphics distorted. Code included: what am I missing?

The function below prints a color raster image to a PCL-5 printer. The function was adapted from a 2-color (1bpp) printing function we had that worked perfectly, except for the grainy 2-color printing. The problem is that the image comes out with…
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Converting PDF to PCL5 on Windows?

In my application, I need to convert PDF docs to PCL5 generic files to send to FTP PCL capable printers. Printing to file would be a last resort, I would prefer a small-footprint command line tool or API that will do the job. I've seen some mention…
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Paper definition for Brother QL-570 labels

I'm developing a webapp where I want to enable the user to print directly to the label printer (Brother QL-570). The label will contain a barcode and some text, and to achieve this I'm currently examining jsprintsetup Firefox addon. I've been able…
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High level interface for manipulating fields in docx4j?

Is there a high level interface to manipulating document fields with docx4j? The task I am doing is to fill in the fields (and optionally remove them or not - i.e. maybe leave them filled in, or replace them with their value), then transform to…
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Bill printing jobs

I'm looking for a way to hook up all printing jobs on a machine. We have some Kiosk computers running windows XP, and we would like to allow customers to print. We would like to be able to catch the printing job, as it is sent to the printer,…
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How to send a ESC printing command over Bluetooth using Python on Android?

So this was my original problem: I tried printing PIL barcode images using CPCL commands over bluetooth. The printer is a Rongta RPP320 bluetooth printer which support CPCL & ESC/POS. I chose CPCL because I have another printer that only runs…
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passing/parsing PCL code to word or excel

Is it possible to convert the pcl code I have to a readable version in word or excl or any thing else? Are there any DLL's to perform it.
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ghostscript converting text in pdf to graphics when converting to PCL

I am using Ghostscript to convert a PDF to PCL. I was expecting the resulting PCL to include commands to output the text elements, instead it is essentially converting the text in the PDF to bitmap data. Is there any way to retain the textual…
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