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Pepper, 1987 - Google Patents

HP's printer language challenges PostScript

Pepper, 1987

Document ID
12019428241767433112
Author
Pepper J
Publication year
Publication venue
PC Week

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Hewlett-Packard Co's Printer Command Language (PCL) drives more laser printers than Adobe Systems' PostScript page description language; however, PostScript claims to be more popular with users. PCL lacks many of PostScript's features, but HP is working to …
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