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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