Page Description Language - List

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Various page description languages exist:

  • AFP, Advanced Function Presentation (IBM)
  • CPCL, Comtec Printer Control Language (Zebra, Comtec)
  • Diablo
  • DPL, Datamax Printer Language
  • DTPL, Datamax Ticket Printer Language
  • DVI, Device Independent
  • E411, Emulation 411, For Ticketing and Flight Strip (ATC) systems (by IER)
  • EPL, Eltron Programming Language
  • ESC/P, Epson Standard Code for Printers, simple language mainly used in dot matrix printers
  • ESC/P2, an expanded version of ESC/P
  • ESC/Page, Epson Standard Code for Page Printer, a page description language (distinct from ESC/P) used in a number of Epson laser printers, especially Japanese models.
  • ESC/POS, Epson Standard Code for POS printers.
  • HP-GL and HP-GL/2, geometric language introduced by Hewlett-Packard for pen plotters, still in use today for technical drawings
  • InterPress
  • IPDS, Intelligent Printer Data Stream (by IBM)
  • KPDL, Kyocera Page Description Language
  • LCDS/Metacode, a Xerox print stream format used in their older high-speed printers
  • MODCA (IBM)
  • MTPL, Mannesmann Tally Printer Language
  • PCL, Printer Command Language (Hewlett-Packard)
  • PDF, Portable Document Format (Adobe Systems)
  • PostScript (Adobe Systems)
  • PPDS, Personal Printer Data Stream by IBM
  • RPCS, Refined Printing Command Stream by Ricoh
  • SPL, Samsung Printer Language, specifications are available at http://splix.sf.net/
  • SVG, an XML-based graphics description language primarily developed for the World Wide Web
  • UFR (Canon)
  • UFR II (Canon)
  • XPS, XML Paper Specification introduced in Windows Vista
  • ZJS, Zenographics ZjStream Page Description Language
  • ZPL, Zebra Programming Language

Some of these languages are or have been made open standards. There are also other proprietary languages whose details are not publicly disclosed.

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