[Info-vax] IPP utiltiy

Mark Berryman mark at theberrymans.com
Wed May 5 12:19:29 EDT 2021


On 5/4/21 2:49 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2021-05-04, Mark Berryman <mark at theberrymans.com> wrote:
>> Based on feedback, it would appear that a number of the printers out
>> there are designed more for mobile printing than desktop printing.  This
>> is indicated by the document formats they support.  Typically, such
>> printers return a supported document format list similar to the following:
>>
>> application/vnd.hp-PCL: this is HP?s Printer Control Language.  It is
>> text with escape sequences although binary data can be included when
>> graphics are involved.
>>
> 
> Just for completion, there are multiple PCL versions around.
> 
> Is there any indication of which PCL version(s) this covers ?

Yes.  Each printer will have some attribute indicating which version of 
the various protocols it supports.  Mine, for example, claims PCL 6 support.

Mark



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