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Re: Conversion to PCL question...

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On Mon, 04 Apr 2011 11:58:12 -0400, JJ <jeffersonjj.nospam@hotmail.com> wrote:

> "Mark T. B. Carroll" <mtbc@bcs.org> wrote in message
> news:87y63t35op.fsf@ixod.org...
>> "JJ" <jeffersonjj.nospam@hotmail.com> writes:
>>
>>> We have a company logo.  I can get it in jpg or bmp format.  I might even
>>> be
>>> able to get it in PDF format...
>>>
>>> But what we need to do is convert it to PCL.  Then I have to store that
>>> PCL
>>> somewhere so that later, it can be "sent" to the printer on the fly.
>>> Basically, we'd like to print the logo from our internal system vs.
>>> buying
>>> pre-printed letterhead paper.
>>>
>>> We cannot load "macros" to the printers themselves.  We have dozens of
>>> printers that might be doing this printing.  They are all PCL capable
>>> printers.
>>
>> The Common UNIX Printing System can via PostScript convert PDF to PCL.
>> Pick a PCL printer driver and print a PDF to a file using the driver.
>>
>> That may not be the best way, but it'll probably work.
>>
>> There's also a PDF-to-PostScript utility based on Poppler. Then
>> Ghostscript can convert PostScript to PCL. Maybe those are pretty
>> much the tools CUPS uses under the hood, I don't know.
>>
>> Basically, certainly if you go via PostScript, you should find that
>> there are plenty of free tools available.
>>
>> Mark
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> Actually, I have managed to get a .bmp converted to .pcl but now I'm having
> a hard time using it.  Once I have the logo in PCL, I need to be able to
> just "write it out" directly to the printer.  Our s/w is opening the device,
> using it, and writing to it.  I imagine it is using the printer driver
> installed for that printer but I don't have any interaction with that.
>
> I can't seem to get the PCL that is in a file "out"...when I print the file
> directly, I just get the "garbage."  Thanks for the input!  JJ

Heh-heh ... the PCL is just the data stream that would go to a PCL printer
in order to have the printer give a rendering of the .BMP image you started
out from.

Feed that data stream to any other printer than an HP PCL printer, and all that
you'll get is the ASCII dump of that data stream.

HTH. Cheers, -- tlvp
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Conversion to PCL question... "JJ" <jeffersonjj.nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-01 12:23 -0400
  Re: Conversion to PCL question... "Mark T. B. Carroll" <mtbc@bcs.org> - 2011-04-01 19:36 -0400
    Re: Conversion to PCL question... "JJ" <jeffersonjj.nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-04 11:58 -0400
      Re: Conversion to PCL question... tlvp <tPlOvUpBErLeLsEs@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-05 23:35 -0400
      Re: Conversion to PCL question... luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-05 22:57 -0700
        Re: Conversion to PCL question... luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-05 23:01 -0700
          Re: Conversion to PCL question... "JJ" <jeffersonjj.nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-06 07:37 -0400
  Re: Conversion to PCL question... luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-01 23:09 -0700
    Re: Conversion to PCL question... Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> - 2011-04-02 22:08 +0000
      Re: Conversion to PCL question... luser- -droog <mijoryx@yahoo.com> - 2011-04-02 23:28 -0700
        Re: Conversion to PCL question... Ilya Zakharevich <nospam-abuse@ilyaz.org> - 2011-04-03 20:02 +0000
    Re: Conversion to PCL question... "JJ" <jeffersonjj.nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-04 12:00 -0400
      Re: Conversion to PCL question... PGAGA <grifwood@glinx.com> - 2011-04-04 09:50 -0700
        Re: Conversion to PCL question... "JJ" <jeffersonjj.nospam@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-04 15:06 -0400

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