PCL Printer control language or PCL as its more commonly called is one of the most common printing language used widely by many different printer manufacturers. Pros for using the PCL driver Fast document printing.
Supported by many different operating systems. Easy to configure and install. Graphic images may differ depending on device they are printed from. The same print file should print identically on two or more different print devices. This most beneficial when used for printing drafts on one printer then sending out to a printing company for production.
Cons: Print processing can be slow. Not found in as many platforms as PCL. Print file and memory requirements are larger. Did this help? Yes Not Yet. This queue uses the "PCL" print language, but for certain requirements, users may achieve better print output using the " StaffPrint-PS " queue which uses a PostScript-language driver.
The following information highlights some differences between the PCL and Postscript drivers print queues , which may aid in choising the best one for particular situations.
Note that for Mac and Linux users , PostScript is the only version of queue available - though the new Jan StaffPrint-PS queue is still optimised for performance compared to the previously available queue. Computing and Information Services. Windows in-box drivers usually only have a subset of features.
You're almost always better off downloading the drivers from HP. If you are just doing regular windows printing then PCL6 would be my suggestion. So it always depends on the printer and what you are trying to acheive.
Both languages have pros and cons. PostScript is Far superior to any other font type. The clear and easy test are when a printer supports dpi, you would select the smallest font size and print a page in postscript and a page in PCL you can clearly tell each character individually also, you can test it out the sameway by extending the Font size to a VERY large scale Sign up to join this community.
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One major problem with PCL6 is that you can't capture the print job and read any of the content which can become an issue if you are trying to debug the datastream. If you look at a PCL6 stream it's unreadable. So simple things such as checking what the orientation for a specific page is for debugging some print issue, are very difficult. The vast majority of us just want to print a few pages quickly and reliably and could care less about human readable datastreams.
JohnGardeniers Would you explain what these missing factors are? I'm not sure why your comment was so highly upvoted as 'adding something to the post' when it doesn't identify what it's criticising.
So to make sense of everything, the following issues have to be considered: How good is the software that converts your document to PCL or PostScript?
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