HP's PCL stuff

Bill Campbell bill at celestial.com
Tue Feb 1 15:38:39 PST 2022


On Tue, Feb 01, 2022, Reggie Freedman via Filepro-list wrote:
>This link maybe useful / informative:
>
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_Command_Language
>
>I shared a while back about "Stupid HP" not making pcl-6 backward to the whole 
>series, pcl-1 through pcl-5. They could have, they just 
>didn't. Confusion ever since...

I gave up on HP years ago since they wouldn't provide ScanJet drivers for
current versions of OS X, and wouldn't sell parts to fix an 18 month old
color laser printer.

I run all my printer output which has pcl through the ghostpdl pcl6 to
convert it to pdf before sending it the printer.

Bill
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