what program to asseble a PCL 5.0 file

[thanhhahuy]

Hi all,

Plz tell me what program to assemble a designed file using PCL 5.0?


For PCL 6.0 I am using JETASM and the PCL 6.0 designed file should be
written in a plain text format. The commands in PCL 6.0 are totally
different from the commands listed in the PCL 5.0 manual. For
example:


To set a position for the cursor, in PCL 6.0 the command is sint16_xy
0 0 Point SetCursor , while the command for that in PCL 5.0 is
Ec*p0y0X . Why is there this difference?


Assume I have a PCL 5.0 file, what program I need to assemble it to
binary code to send to a printer? Do you have any template file for
PCL 5.0???


Thanks

 

[Warren Block]

Assume I have a PCL 5.0 file, what program I need to assemble it to
binary code to send to a printer? Do you have any template file for
PCL 5.0???

You don't need a program, just send it directly to the printer. The
PCL5 interpreter in the printer will handle it.

 

[Christoph Lindemann]

PCL 1-5 and PCL XL (also known as PCL 6) are completely different formats

You can read about the different versions of PCL here
http://www.undocprint.org/formats/page_description_languages/pcl

PageTech has some tools for disassembling PCL (http://www.pclcodes.com/) and
there are also some old versions of jetasm which handle PCL5