PCL Paraphernalia

PCL Paraphernalia is a lightweight collection of tools that allows technicians to print on PCL5 and PCL6 printers. To put it simply, the utility provides an object-oriented PDL optimized for printing from GUI interfaces, in this case Windows. While technicians are able to quickly process the operation via the graphic interface, the PCL protocol ensures that the content is compressed and optimized for PCL and PCL XL.

Getting started entails specifying the target printer or file, however, this solely needs to be done a single time as the application remembers the target. Afterwards, users can select one of the desired print data languages from the list, which includes PCL, PCL XL enums, PML tags, HP-GL/2 as well as Symbols sets, paper sizes and fonts, depending on the target machine.

The application packs quite a handful of tools to account for all known potential print jobs, including font sample, form sample, image bitmap, make overlay, print areas, PRN file analysis and print or symbol set generation. As previously mentioned, the target can either be a printer or a file. In case it is a printer, then the edited data is sent to its specified port, whereas for files, the data can be saved directly on them.