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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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How can I send a print command from a winCE device to a PCL printer?

I'm developing an application for Honeywell Dolphin 6100, a mobile computer with a barcode scanner that uses Windows CE 5.0 like OS. I want to add an option that can take a text file (.pdf, .txt, .docx, etc) from a "openFileDialog" component and…
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How to write a Mac PCL Printer Driver?

I am currently developing printer drivers for Mac which should support both PS (postscript) and PCL printers. I already have an idea about supporting PS (by defining custom CUPS postscript filters in the PPD, and a PDE). What I don't have an idea…
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How to reduce PCL file size when we use gs command to convert ps to pcl file

I am converting a PDF file to a PS file using ghostscript.Size of PS file is normal but when I convert PS file to PCL file then size becomes very large. I have tried many options with gs command to optimize the size but somehow did not succeed. Can…
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Is there a way to determine in .Net (or WMI) if a print driver will print to PCL or PostScript format when printing to a file?

Is there a way to determine in .Net (or WMI) if a print driver will print to PCL or PostScript or XPS format when printing to a file?
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Ghostscript and pxlcolor: how to generate additional PJL entries in generated PCL

I have to set the Outbin in a PCL file that is generated via Ghostscript with the device=pxlcolor. I'm looking araund but didn't find the necessary parameter. Can someone pls advice? My commandline on windows…
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ghostpcl mswinpr2

I am having difficulties to print a pcl file to a gdi printer via ghostpcl. On some forums a suggested solution is to set mswinpr2 as the output device. This should produce GDI output for a windows printer. The problem is, there seems to be no…
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Name that printing file format

Hello there fellow Stackers! I wonder if anybody could tell me what the following file format is? If you print it as-is then your print out will be, er, as-is BUT if you send it directly to the printer (for example using NET USE in a DOS/Windows…
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Minicom ignores certain characters

Hello all tech saviors out there. I am capturing serial data successfully using Minicom to a text file. The serial data comes from an automatic programmable controller serial port sent to an HP printer. Unfortunately, Minicom ignores the PCL…
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Converting PDF to PCL via Ghostscript only without colour?

We are trying to convert some PDF files into PCL files using Ghostscript. The commandline we're using: gswin32c -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pxlcolor \ -f ..\examples\pu.pdf -sOutputFile=..\examples\pu.pcl This generates a black&white PCL file.…
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how to identify page boundries in a .prn file of multiple page job

Can someone help me to identify the page boundaries in a multiple page job .prn file ? My goal is to use a PJL command @PJL SET MEDIASOURCE=TRAYX at the start of every page of a multiple job file. Where X = page number, for example: for Page 1 :…
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How to set the UsbInterface (isochronous) manually for a USB device (Kinect)

Possible Duplicate: Set USB transfer type manually for a device I use openni to interact with my Kinect on a ARM-Board (Pandaboard ES). To get openni running on this Platform it needed some tweaks, one of them is to set the UsbInterface manually…
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Insert pcl escape sequences into PCL built from multiple PDF files

What tools/methods are available to build pcl stream from PDFs. We have a bunch of generated PDF files that get tied up into one big pdf. I need to generate a print job to print this with the ability to insert pcl escape sequences (to control paper…
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How do you intercept USB printer error messages when using StartDoc()/EndDoc()?

I hope someone can point me in the correct direction regarding the printing problem I am having below: Setup: Win CE 5.0 Trying to print from a custom application. I have written a very simple printing class in my application that uses the pcl…
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GPL Ghostscript 8.70: Can't start ijs server

I'm trying to get ghostscript to convert PDFs to PCL-5 (or 5e) using a driver capable of being configured (the built-in drivers produce very surprisingly large output, and I need something capable of being tweaked). I have gutenprint compiled, and…
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Extract XSL-FO from docx4j (or convert straight to PCL)?

Is there a way to extract the XSL-FO from docx4j, or is there a guide (or existing code) to adapting the docx4j pdf output to emit PCL instead of PDF? The task I am doing is to fill in the fields of a (docx) word document (and optionally remove them…
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