Page description languages
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* [[ESC/POS]], Epson printer commands for Point of Sale systems | * [[ESC/POS]], Epson printer commands for Point of Sale systems | ||
* [[HP-GL]] | * [[HP-GL]] | ||
+ | * [[IJPDS]] (Inkjet Printer Data Stream; Kodak Versamark) | ||
* [[OpenXPS]] (Open XML Paper Specification) | * [[OpenXPS]] (Open XML Paper Specification) | ||
* [[PCL]] (e.g. PCL5, PCL6 used in laser printers) | * [[PCL]] (e.g. PCL5, PCL6 used in laser printers) |
Revision as of 01:28, 30 January 2015
Overview
These formats describe how a page that is to be printed looks like. It's mostly used as final format before the data is sent to the printer. See also Document, Markup, and Electronic Publishing formats.
- DVI TeX/LaTeX
- EMF, a variant of WMF as used by Windows in print spooling
- ESC/P, Epson Standard Code for Printers
- ESC/POS, Epson printer commands for Point of Sale systems
- HP-GL
- IJPDS (Inkjet Printer Data Stream; Kodak Versamark)
- OpenXPS (Open XML Paper Specification)
- PCL (e.g. PCL5, PCL6 used in laser printers)
- PDF (derived from PostScript)
- PS, EPS (Adobe PostScript)
Resources
- Wikipedia page about page definition languages