Creating a printer emulator to capture PDL/PCL data coming in on port 9100.


 
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Old 01-22-2010
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Originally Posted by jgt
I would start by creating a PCL printer that prints to disk, then examine the disk file created to see if there is anything useful in it. I don't think you will find anything like a text file with one or two escape sequences at the beginning of it. You may be better off if you can create a generic/text only printer.
I already linked to a pcl2text utility.
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CJET(1) 						      General Commands Manual							   CJET(1)

NAME
cjet - converts HP PCL to Canon CaPSL format SYNOPSIS
cjet [options]<input.pcl>output DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the cjet command. This manual page was written for the Debian distribution because the original program does not have a manual page. cjet converts the common HP PCL page description language to Canon's CaPSL, which was used in the mid-1990s by some Canon laser printers. It is normally used as part of a printer filter script, like the Foomatic system. OPTIONS
-h Show summary of options. -f Use full paint mode instead of partial paint mode. This requires the printer to have at least 1.5 MB of memory to work correctly. -p Ignore paper size commands. Useful for printing files formatted for paper size X on printers with paper size Y. -q Quiet mode. Suppresses all warning messages. -x X Shift output on paper by X dots horizontally. Positive values of X shift to the right; negative values to the left. Dots are 1/300 inch (0.085 mm). -y Y Shift output on paper by Y dots vertically. Positive values of Y shift downwards; negative values shift upwards. SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/printer-driver-cjet/README AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Chris Lawrence <lawrencc@debian.org> based on the original README file by Michael Huijsmans for the Debian project (but may be used by others). July 2, 2003 CJET(1)