PostScript Printer Description (PPD) files are created by vendors to describe the entire set of features and capabilities available for their PostScript...
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PostScript (PS) is a page description language and dynamically typed, stack-based programming language. It is most commonly used in the electronic publishing...
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Printer Command Language, more commonly referred to as PCL, is a page description language (PDL) developed by Hewlett-Packard as a printer protocol and...
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hardware PostScript Printer Description (PPD) Print (command) Printer Command Language (PCL) Windows Vista printing technologies Virtual printer XML Paper...
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is printer control language, which includes Hewlett-Packard's Printer Command Language (PCL). PostScript is one of the most noted page description languages...
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part of the PostScript page description language, did not see widespread use until March 1985 when the first laser printer to use the PostScript language...
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Display PostScript (or DPS) is a 2D graphics engine system for computers that uses the PostScript (PS) imaging model and language to generate on-screen...
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code printers are an example of an expanded use for printers. Different types of printers include 3D printers, inkjet printers, laser printers, and thermal...
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CUPS (category Articles with short description)
drivers which CUPS supplies by editing text files in Adobe's PostScript Printer Description (PPD) format. There are a number of user interfaces for different...
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Encapsulated PostScript (EPS) is a Document Structuring Convention (DSC) conforming PostScript document format usable as a graphics file format. The format...
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Unidrv (redirect from Microsoft Universal Printer Driver)
(Universal Printer Driver or Unidriver) is a GDI-based Microsoft Windows universal printer driver and architecture for non-PostScript printers. It is used...
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page. Popular PDLs are PCL (Printer Command Language) from Hewlett-Packard, PostScript from Adobe Systems and PostScript clones, and Windows’ Graphics...
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Ghostscript (redirect from GhostScript)
based on an interpreter for Adobe Systems' PostScript and Portable Document Format (PDF) page description languages. Its main purposes are the rasterization...
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Raster image processor (category Articles with short description)
examples of software RIPs. Every PostScript printer contains a RIP in its firmware. The RIP chip in a laser printer sends its raster image output to the...
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Ghostscript-based virtual printer that can be shared with Windows users over the LAN. CUPS Ghostscript – A command-line library for creation of PostScript and PDF files...
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Paper size (category CS1 uses Chinese-language script (zh))
0"" (PDF). Alt URL Adobe Systems Incorporated (1996-02-09). "PostScript Printer Description File Format Specification" (PDF) (4.3 ed.). San Jose, California...
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Printing registration (category Articles with short description)
printing plates are aligned. The PostScript printer description languages supports registration black, starting with PostScript language level 2. This is done...
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ImageWriter (dot matrix), LaserWriter (PostScript laser), and StyleWriter (thermal inkjet). Apple's first printer was the Apple Silentype, released in June...
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Printer tracking dots, also known as printer steganography, DocuColor tracking dots, yellow dots, secret dots, or a machine identification code (MIC),...
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PPD (category Short description is different from Wikidata)
PostScript Printer Description, a file created by a printer vendor that describes the entire set of capabilities of a particular PostScript printer model...
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Laser printing (redirect from Laser-class printer)
below. The document to be printed is encoded in a page description language such as PostScript, Printer Command Language (PCL), or Open XML Paper Specification...
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TrueImage (category Articles with short description)
acquired Bauer Enterprises in July 1989 to produce Tru Image, a PostScript-compatible printer driver... Apple and Microsoft Declare War on Adobe By Greg Scott...
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conceived as an extension to Printer Command Language (PCL), it is now supported by most PostScript printers. Many printer vendors have extended PJL to...
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or other connection types PDLs (PostScript, PCL, XPS etc.) and direct interpreters (PDF, TIFF, etc.) supported Printer drivers available for different...
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ANSI/ASME Y14.1 (category Articles with short description)
and Format". Adobe Systems Incorporated (February 9, 1996), PostScript Printer Description File Format Specification (4.3 ed.), San Jose, California, p...
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Bill Paxton (computer scientist) (category Articles with short description)
became one of the original designers and implementors of the PostScript page description language. In 2021, Paxton was awarded the Beatrice M. Tinsley...
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LaserWriter (category Apple Inc. printers)
LaserWriter is a laser printer with built-in PostScript interpreter sold by Apple, Inc. from 1985 to 1988. It was one of the first laser printers available to the...
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ESC/P (category Articles with short description)
modern/office/consumer non-Epson printers use ESC/P; instead most are driven through a standardized page description language, usually PCL or PostScript, or they use proprietary...
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Foomatic (category Articles with short description)
target printer) Send the printer-language file to the printer But if foomatic-rip "knows" about the available printer, it will translate the PostScript data...
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Xprint (category PostScript)
handle paged output devices. Xprint outputs as PostScript, PCL 3, PCL 5 or as a raster bitmap at printer resolution. Xprint is based on ISO 10175 and other...
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