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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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Send PCL commands to bluetooth printer

I make android app which will send PCL commands to BT printer (HP Officejet 100). Problem is when I send string data(PCL command) printer don't recognized these commands and print all these commands like normal strings. Any idea why printer don't…
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Dynamically creating a 3D object in Android

I'm in a tough moment in my project and not sure how to advance any further: I have identified an object in a photo using openCV and I want to add depth to it - doesn't matter real world measurements at the moment. I want to add depth in order to…
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Xamarin iOS Simulator error

When i make that call from iPhone Simulator (iOS 6) var request = System.Net.HttpWebRequest.Create(url); I have following error An exception was thrown by the type initializer for System.Net.WebRequest Error Initializing the configuration…
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Unable to Use Nuget with MvvmCross - PCL

Following the tutorial for mvvmcross here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DHDMNB_IeY&list=PLR6WI6W1JdeYSXLbm58jwAKYT7RQR31-W&index=1 I've set up my PCL xml files to include MonoTouch and Mono for Android as instructed here:…
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Cropped PCL after gswin PDF to PCL conversion

I have a PDF, which I want to convert to PCL I convert PDF to PCL using the following command: (gs 8.70) gswin32c.exe -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH \ -sDEVICE=ljetplus -dDuplex=false -dTumble=false \ -sPAPERSIZE=a4…
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Determine if received data is PostScript or PCL

I have a service that receives printer data via tcp/ip. When the data is received, is there reliable, efficient way to examine the data stream and determine if the data is PostScript vs PCL data? For example, are there characters I could look for…
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PDF to PCL converter for iOS?

Is there any SDK/tool to convert pdf to pcl in iOS? I am trying to port GhostScript but not much luck there.
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PCL font character data from donor TTF file?

Anyone know how to extract Character Descriptor and Data Format for TrueType Fonts for PCL from donor ttf Files?
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Write over USB using the printer_basic example for SAM E54

I was trying to use the SAM E54 Xplained dev board to achieve printer communication using this example from Microchip https://github.com/Microchip-MPLAB-Harmony/usb_apps_device/tree/master/apps/printer_basic#config_9 . I would like to receive an…
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Unable to connect device using Wi-Fi Direct in Huawei Android 9 (EMUI 9)

I am creating an app to communicate with printer using Wi-Fi Direct. The app will list all the printers in Wi-Fi direct range once click on displayed printer it will send invitation to printer to connect. Click on accept it will connect. The app…
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Java library to convert HTML document to PCL

Does anyone know of a Java library that can be used to convert an HTML document to PCL format?
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Looking for library to convert PDF to PCL

I'm looking for a library to convert PDF to PCL. I also need to put additional instructions (probably @PJL COMMENT statements) We're trying to convert pdfs for input into an automated faxing system. I would like to be able to call this from a .net…
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GhostPCL creates invalid pdf

I just downloaded GhostPCL. Here's how I am calling GhostPCL: > gpcl6win64.exe -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -o C:\temp\output.pdf C:\temp\input.spl Input/Output: Get it from my DropBox The generated pdf seems to be broken. I cannot select text as…
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Converting PDF to PCL with GhostScript?

Can I convert a pdf to pcl file with ghostscript? I'm using Ghostscript 9.01 (gsdll32.dll) and passing the following arguments in but only get a 1k file with what looks like some header info. My pdf input is 5 pages... Here are my arguments are…
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Win64 GhostPCL unable to display Unix PCL

I have created a Java app that generates a PCL file via FOP. When I run the Java app on my local Windows box I can view the generated PCL file using GhostPCL. I can also run the same Java app on a Unix server and generate the PCL file. However,…
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