PCL6 and filePro (was Re: experience with ...)

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Jay R. Ashworth (Fri, 2 Mar 2007 09:37:10 -0500):

> On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 04:45:13PM -0800, Jim Asman wrote:
[...]
> > In a filePro context, if it doesn't do PCL5 internally,
> > don't touch it.
>
> PCL 5 is a strict subset of 6, no?  That's a network model printer: the
> interpreter *has* to be on-board.

My understanding is that the only thing PCL5 and PCL6 have in common
are the letters "PCL" in the name.  From the "PCL 6 FAQ" file available
in some buried directory on HP's website:

    Q: Is PCL6 a superset of PCL5e?

    A: No,PCL6 is not an superset of PCL5. It is a completely different
       page description language (PDL). Some main differences are:

      PCL6 has no ASCII binding. Consequently, PCL6 streams are quite
      smaller, and there's more development and debugging time involved
      in compiling and decompiling the binary streams.
      [...]
      PCL6 provides an object-oriented imaging protocol, which has more
      one to one relationships with GUI objects used under environments
      such as Windows, OS/2 and Macintosh. PCL6 is a stack based protocol
      (e.g. PostScript) composed of attributes and operators that allow
      one to define paths, clip paths, pens, brushes, fonts, raster
      patterns, etc..

Start at
<http://new.hpdevelopersolutions.com/SPP/Public/Sdk/SdkPublicDownload.aspx>
and navigate:
    LaserJet and Digital Sender
        Printer Languages
            PCL 6
                PCL 6 FAQs

Note that the nagivation panel doesn't work well in non-IE browsers.
It "works", but it's very slow and klunky.

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