Various page description languages exist: •
AFP, Advanced Function Presentation (
IBM) • Apple Raster, formerly known as URF, used by the
AirPrint protocol. •
Canon GARO, Graphic Arts language with Raster Operations (for large format printers), based on
Hewlett-Packard PCL3GUI / RTL and CPCA job description language. • Common Ground page definition language • CPCL, Comtec Printer Control Language (now Zebra) •
DjVu, a mixed raster content (MRC) format supporting OCR-based scanned documents (
AT&T Labs) • DPL, Datamax Printer Language (now
Honeywell) • DTPL, Datamax Ticket Printer Language •
DVI, Device Independent, output from
TeX • E411, Emulation 411, for Ticketing and Flight Strip (ATC) systems (IER) • EPL, Eltron Programming Language (now Zebra) •
Envoy page description language (
WordPerfect) •
ESC/P,
Epson Standard Code for Printers, simple language mainly used in
dot matrix printers • ESC/P2, an expanded version of ESC/P •
ESC/Page, Epson Standard Code for Page Printer, a page description language (distinct from ESC/P) used in a number of Epson laser printers, especially Japanese models •
ESC/POS,
Epson Standard Code for
POS printers • FGL, Friendly Ghost Language (Boca Systems) printers • Fingerprint, a programming language, Direct Protocol is subset of Fingerprint (
Intermec) •
HP-GL and HP-GL/2, geometric language introduced by
Hewlett-Packard for pen plotters, still in use today for technical drawings •
Interpress (
Xerox) •
IJPDS, Ink Jet Printer Data Stream (
Kodak) •
IPDS, Intelligent Printer Data Stream (IBM) • IGP/PGL,
Printronix Graphics Language • IPL, Intermec Printer Language, a programming language for
Intermec printers (now a subsidiary of
Honeywell) • KPDL,
Kyocera Page Description Language • LCDS/Metacode, a print stream format used in older high-speed printers (
Xerox) •
MODCA, Mixed Object Document Content Architecture (IBM) • MTPL, Mannesmann Tally Printer Language •
PCL, Printer Command Language (
Hewlett-Packard) •
PDF, Portable Document Format (
Adobe Systems), now ISO 32000 •
PostScript (
Adobe Systems) •
PPDS, Personal Printer Data Stream •
RPCS, Refined Printing Command Stream (
Ricoh) • RTL (Raster Transfer Language, also known as PCL3GUI). Raster graphic command subset of Hewlett-Packard HP-GL/2, similar to PCL. • Star Line Mode, variant of ESC/POS used by
Star Micronics printers •
SPL, Samsung Printer Language •
SVG, an XML-based graphics description language primarily developed for the
World Wide Web • Canon SG Raster (Swift Graphics Raster for large format printers), based on Hewlett-Packard PCL3GUI / RTL and IVEC (XML formatted job description language) • TSPL/TSPL2, Taiwan Semiconductor Printing/Programming Language (
TSMC) • TTP, print language by Swecoin for kiosk printers (now Zebra) • UFR (Ultra Fast Rendering), a proprietary language (Canon) • XES,
Xerox Escape Sequence •
XPS, XML Paper Specification introduced in Windows Vista (
Microsoft) • ZJS, ZjStream Page Description Language (Zenographics) •
ZPL,
Zebra Programming Language ==See also==