• graphics). An overlapping term is printer control language, which includes Hewlett-Packard's Printer Command Language (PCL). PostScript is one of the most...
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  • for Printer Control Language which actually is another term for page description language. PCL levels 1 through 5e/5c are command-based languages using...
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    format. Card printers are controlled by corresponding printer drivers or by means of a specific programming language. Generally card printers are designed...
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  • HP-GL (redirect from A Graphics Language)
    Graphics Language and often written as HPGL, is a printer control language created by Hewlett-Packard (HP). HP-GL was the primary printer control language used...
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  • ESC/P (category Page description languages)
    Standard Code for Printers and sometimes styled Escape/P, is a printer control language developed by Epson to control computer printers. It was mainly used...
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    series of dots to the printer using a series of escape sequences. These printer control languages varied from printer to printer, requiring program authors...
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  • for status readback between the printer and the host computer. PJL adds job level controls, such as printer language switching, job separation, environment...
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  • a standard Printer Spooler. Since AmigaOS 2.0 a standard printer.device was changed to control various printers at same time. The Printer preferences...
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  • Early mainframe printers were usually line printers. Line printers provide a limited set of commands to control how the paper is advanced when print lines...
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  • or have produced digital printers. This list includes only those companies who have actually designed and manufactured printers, not those who have only...
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  • Quickwriter, LaserPrinter 4019, and LaserPrinter 4029 commands. PPDS was introduced to control printers in 1981 with the launch of IBM Graphics Printer 5152. Originally...
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    Epson (category Computer printer companies)
    a printer control language, the Epson Standard Code for Printers (or ESC/P). It became a de facto industry standard for controlling print formatting during...
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    3D printing (redirect from 3d printer)
    layers of materials are controlled by the printer and the material properties. The three-dimensional material layer is controlled by the deposition rate...
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    Oracle Corporation. Retrieved 2023-02-24. "HP PCL Symbol Sets | Printer Control Language (PCL & PXL) Support Blog". 2015-02-19. Archived from the original...
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    to be printed is encoded in a page description language such as PostScript, Printer Command Language (PCL), or Open XML Paper Specification (OpenXPS)...
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  • Job Control Language (JCL) is a scripting language used on IBM mainframe operating systems to instruct the system on how to run a batch job or start a...
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    TIFF, SLD Formats for printed documents: PostScript, PDF, HP-GL (printer control language used by Hewlett-Packard plotters), Vector graphics formats: EPS...
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    relatively low-resolution dot matrix for layout. Dot matrix printers are a type of impact printer that prints using a fixed number of pins or wires and typically...
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  • tablets, etc.) and printers (or print servers). It allows clients to submit one or more print jobs to the network-attached printer or print server, and...
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    Parallel port (redirect from Printer port)
    another character. Control characters in the data caused other actions, like the CR or EOF. The host could also have the printer automatically start...
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    Plotter (redirect from Plotter (printer))
    shapes to be cut out very precisely, and repeatably. A number of printer control languages were created to operate pen plotters, and transmit commands like...
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  • Carriage return (redirect from Control-M)
    carriage return is one of the control characters in ASCII code, Unicode, EBCDIC, and many other codes. It commands a printer, or other output system such...
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    Control Program", CCP). A simple job control language called Operation Control Language (OCL) was superficially similar to the Job Control Language (JCL)...
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  • ASA control characters are simple printing command characters used to control the movement of paper through line printers. These commands are presented...
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    remotely control the printer. OctoPrint was created by Gina Häußge in 2012, who initially developed the software to support her first 3D printer. OctoPrint...
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    HP LaserJet (category HP LaserJet printers)
    use their in-house developed Printer Command Language (PCL) as opposed to Apple, which adopted the PostScript language, as developed by Adobe Systems...
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    on printers and imagesetters, often proprietary or specific to a manufacturer or device, drove development of generalized printer control languages, such...
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    PCL language was PCL level 3 in an HP645/7, which was later implemented to drive Hewlett Packard's first Laserjet printer. HP Printer Control Language shares...
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    Python is a high-level, general-purpose programming language. Its design philosophy emphasizes code readability with the use of significant indentation...
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    for page rendering while a GDI printer uses the host computer for this. However, a printer with its own control language can accept input from any device...
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