Printer Job Language (PJL) is a method developed by
Hewlett-Packard
The Hewlett-Packard Company, commonly shortened to Hewlett-Packard ( ) or HP, was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California. HP developed and provided a wide variety of hardware components ...
for switching
printer languages at the job level, and for status readback between the printer and the host computer. PJL adds job level controls, such as printer language switching, job separation, environment, status readback, device attendance and file system commands.
"PJL offers application programs an efficient way to remotely control Hewlett-Packard printers. Using PJL, developers can provide applications with the ability to programmatically switch printer languages, monitor printer status, request the printer model and configuration, change control panel default settings, modify control panel messages, and more."
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While PJL was conceived as an extension to
Printer Command Language (PCL), it is now supported by most
PostScript
PostScript (PS) is a page description language in the electronic publishing and desktop publishing realm. It is a dynamically typed, concatenative programming language. It was created at Adobe Systems by John Warnock, Charles Geschke, Doug Br ...
printers.
Many printer vendors have extended PJL to include commands proprietary to their products. Not all PJL commands documented by HP are implemented in all HP or other vendor products.
PJL resides above all the other printer languages and parses commands first.
The
syntax
In linguistics, syntax () is the study of how words and morphemes combine to form larger units such as phrases and sentences. Central concerns of syntax include word order, grammatical relations, hierarchical sentence structure ( constituency) ...
mainly uses plain
English words.
References
External links
* {{cite web, url =http://h10032.www1.hp.com/ctg/Manual/bpl13208.pdf, title =HP PCL/PJL reference - Printer Job Language Technical Reference Manual, format =PDF, publisher =H-P, accessdate =23 June 2006
HP software
Page description languages