Page Description Languages

Printer Page Description and Markup Languages

• AFP - Advanced Function Printing
• AFPDS - IBM Advanced Function Presentation Data Stream
• ART - Xerox Advanced Rendering Tools
• HBP - Brother Host Based Printing
• Brother NCM (Brother Native Compression Mode)
• Brother P-Touch
• Canon BJL
• Canon UFR (Canon Ultra Fast Rendering)
• CAPT (Canon Advanced Printing Technology)
• CaPSL - Canon Printing System Language (See also LIPS)
• Code-V - QMS Magnum Code-V (QMS)
• CPCL Comtec Printer Control Language (Zebra, Comtec)
• CPL (Tally Compressed Printer Language)
• DDIF (Digital Document Interchange Format)
• Diablo 630
• DPL - Datamax Programming Language Datamax Programming Language
• DSC-DSE (DSC-DSE: Data Stream Compatible and Emulation Bi-directional print data stream for non-SNA (DSC) and SNA LU-3 3270 controller (DSE) communications)
• EPCL Eltron Printer Command Language (Zebra, Eltron)
• EPL1 - Eltron/Zebra Programming Language 1
• EPL2 Eltron Programming Language 2, Page Mode Printing (Zebra, Eltron)
• Epson 3/P/Si
• Epson FX
• Epson GL
• Epson GL2
• Epson LQ
• ESC/P - Epson Standard Code for Printers
• ESC/P2 - Epson Standard Code for Printers, Level 2
• EXCL (Talaris Systems, Extended Command Language)
• GIPD - Granite Image Printer Driver Used by some Lexmark (X500) and Dell (MFP 1125) GDI printers
• HBPL - Dell, Epson, and Fuji-Xerox Printer Language Used by SLED laser printers from Dell (1250c, etc.), Epson (C1700, etc.) and Fuji-Xerox (cp105b, etc.)
• Hiper-C (OKI Hiper-C)
• IBM 5577 Used by IBM 5577 (Japanes) (Also known as Ricoh R55)
• IBM ASCII Later renamed to PPDS - IBM Personal Printer Data Stream
• IBM I239X Used by IBM 2390/2391
• IDP (Apple, Imaging Device Protocol)
• IGP (Printronix Corp.)
• IMF - Zenographics SuperPrint/SuperRip spool file format
• Interpress Xerox predecessor to PostScript
• IPDS
• IPL Intermec Programming Language
• ISO6429 Control functions for Coded Character Sets (ISO/IEC DIS 6429)
• ISO10180 SPDL - Standard Page Description Language (ISO/IEC DIS 10180)
• JetReady (HP JetReady)
• KPDL (Kyocera's own implementation of PostScript)
• LAVAFLOW - Zenographics PCL (Zenographics inplementation of PCL - HP Page Description Language)
• LCDS - Xerox Line Conditioned Data Stream (Xerox, Line Conditioned Data Stream)
• LIDIL (HP Lightweight Imaging Device Interface Language)
• LineData
• LIPS - Canon Laser-beam Image Processing System
• Metacode - Xerox Xerox LPS printers
• MO:DCA - IBM Mixed Object Document Content Architecture
• NEC PC-PR201H NEC (Japanes)
• NEC201PL NEC (Serial printer language used in the Japanese market)
• NPDL NEC (Page printer for Japanese market)
• OAKT (Oak Technology (now Zoran))
• OKI GDI
• OPL Konica Minolta 2480MF
• Pages (IBM Japan, Page printer Advanced Graphic Escape Set)
• PCL - HP Page Description Language
• PCL3GUI
• PCL XL - HP Page Description Language Level 6
• PDF/A
• PDF/X
• PGL (Printronix Graphics Language)
• Pinwriter (NEC Pinwriter, 24 wire dot matrix printer)
• PPA - HP Printing Performance Architecture
• PPDS - IBM Personal Printer Data Stream
• PostScript
• Prescribe
• ProPrinter - IBM ProPrinter
• QPDL - Quick Page Description Language (Samsung Printer Language II / QPDL)
• ReGIS (Remote Graphics Instruction Set, Digital Equipment Corp.)
• RENO
• RPCS - Ricoh Refined Printing Command Stream
• RPDL - Ricoh Page Description Language
• RTL - HP Raster Transfer Language
• Sagem GDI Used by Ricoh SP1000s and SP1100s
• SAP (SAP OTF data stream)
• SAP-ABAP (SAP Advanced Business Application Programming)
• SCP - HP Sleek Control Protocol
• SCS - SNA Character String
• SLX Used by the Lexmark c500n. (Software Imaging K.K.)
• SMART (Samsung SMART)
• SPDL Standard Page Description Language (ISO/IEC DIS 10180)
• SPL - Samsung Printer Language (Samsung Printer Language)
• SVG Print
• TEK4014 (Tektronix Corp.)
• WPS (Windows Printing System, Resource based command/data stream used by Microsoft At Work Peripherals)
• XHTML Print
• XL2HB - Brother PCL XL like PDL
• XES (Xerox Escape Sequences)
• XPS - XML Paper Specification
• XQX Used by the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet M1005
• XSL-FO
• ZIMF (Zenographics ZIMF)
• ZjStream - Zenographics SuperPrint Zj Stream
• ZPL1 Zebra Programming Language
• ZPL2 Zebra Programming Language II

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