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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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Output PCL from Word document using Python

I'm building a web application which will include functionality that takes MS Word (and possibly input from a web-based rich text editor) documents, substitutes values into the formfield placeholders in those documents, and generates a PCL document…
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Java document printing in Windows

I am doing a project which will finally print a pdf file or doc file to the printer as "another user". But now I stuck on how to print document in Java. I know there is a pdf renderer in java, developed by sun, which can convert pdf to pcl…
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TPCL - toshiba Label printer langauge - how to print Nordic character

Can someone please tell me how to print Nordic characters in TPCL language for Label Printing. Below is my…
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SPL file missing the PJL commands when sent from mac

I am printing a document from mac to a windows shared print queue. The spooled file reaches to the print queue but it's missing the PJL commands in the SPL file ? My application needs to read the PJL comments and job attributes. How the SPL file…
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Toshiba thermal Printer(B-EP4DL) command code, issue in JAVA

I have been stuck on this print command code related to Toshiba printer, here based on the previous C# code im trying to write the same in Java, where I'm unable to figure out where I'm doing wrong where the Toshiba printer is giving me an…
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Read status and parameters from a UV printer in C/C++

I have a large UV printer based on Ricoh GEN5 printheads and I'm correctly able to print my files by using the proprietary software over USB communication on Windows 10. I would like to understand if there is any chance to query the printer over USB…
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demo code that will read printer job status via serial port

Is there a demo code somewhere - libraries etc that will help me read printer job status given the job is printing wholeday. Need a report of how many jobs got printed or thier status via an api or some framework preferably web services Regards
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What version of PCL is my file? Convert a PCL 3 monochrome Driver to PCL 5e

Back in December 2019 a bug was submitted that the print from our custom legacy driver is fuzzy. The driver was developed in 2006 by a developer at our company. It is a bitmap driver that outputs PCL. The developer wrote the PCL driver and PCL To…
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How I can to create PCL5 function to print bitmap?

I have a HP officejet H470 and it has a Bluetooth device to connect with other devices such as handheld. I want to print a bitmap image By PLC5, how can I do that?
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IBM HP5Si Print Stream to XPS print driver

I am hoping someone can have suggestions about this issue. We have a custom driver taken from https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/samples/microsoft/windows-driver-samples/xpsdrv-driver-and-filter-sample/ The print driver works well and outputs XPS…
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C++ Byte, sprintf, hex. Convert byte to binary

I am working on this project which has this format/command. My problem is with b0,b1..b5. I am not very good at c++. I can do this in c#. Configure Image Data (CID) Command Esc*v6W b0 b1 b2 b3 b4 b5 Where: • 6 = the number of bytes following the…
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Printer control language, PCL for 24bpp, 16 an gray

I used this link and added lots of enhancements related to GDI. https://github.com/microsoft/Windows-driver-samples/tree/master/print/OEM%20Printer%20Customization%20Plug-in%20Samples/C%2B%2B/bitmap The above samples generates a bitmap driver with…
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Does anyone know which printer language is this?

comment("Ply CUSTOMER COPY") include("tables/default.txt") formtype("ABC*1*STORE-A", ) include("fields/item_ar1.txt") ply("ABC*1*STORE-A#CUSTOMER COPY", , 0, 11, 0, "condition_each order=0 ") if(FORM_TYPE="D") include("d_form/ABC_1") else() …
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Process Monitor Troubleshooting custom print driver, print spooler

Our users upgraded from Windows 7 to 10. When they try to print using a custom print driver they get this error The document Print Document, owned by User, failed to print on printer TEST-PRINT. Try to print the document again, or restart the print…
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Ghostscript PDF to PCL Pushes Pixels to Top

I have a ghostscript command that I use that has been working for a while, and I recently had to increase the DPI to 600 instead of the default 300. This has caused it to push all pixels up to the line right after the previous line of pixels. Here's…
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