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From: jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu (James Darrell McCauley)
Newsgroups: comp.periphs.printers
Subject: PCL5 and PostScript - NOVICE questions
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Date: 7 Nov 90 22:46:51 GMT
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How does PCL5 and PostScript compare?  Would it be possible
to translate both ways (PCL5 -> PS, PS -> PCL5)?  

If so, is there a PS->PCL5 filter?  

Or, what software produces PCL5?  I'm doing a little program
that needs to print a short form (ruled boxes , text is replaced
when the program runs).  I can produce PostScript output (I've
took a PS file and inserted print statments before every line,
changing strings as I go.).  I'd like to be able to make my
program capable of printing this form on HP LJ III's without
a PostScript cartridge.  Pointers appreciated.

Darrell
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James Darrell McCauley                 jdm5548@diamond.tamu.edu
Dept of Ag. Engineering                          (409) 845-6484
Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843-2117, USA
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