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Configuring Xprint V7.0 Administering PCLs

6.13Administering PCLs

A printer capability list (PCL) contains all the information Xprint V7.0 requires to print a document on a printer. By means of the PCL, Xprint V7.0 converts the options of the xpadd -jobcommand into control characters that the printer can handle. Furthermore, a PCL also contains technical characteristics of the printer, such as its connection protocol.

Xprint V7.0 is supplied with a substantial number of PCLs, such as those for different types of HP LaserJet printer, for PostScript printers, IBM ProPrinters, and all Siemens Nixdorf printers. The Appendix of this manual contains a list of all the available PCLs and the printers they support. These PCLs are located in the file /var/spool/Xprint/config/pcl/xpterm. It is possible that only some of them are installed as Xprint V7.0 objects in your system.

You can display a list of the available PCLs with the xpshow -pclcommand. To define further PCLs, use the xpadd -pclcommand. There is also a standard printer capability list, the PCL GENERIC. This enables you to a certain extent to also use printers for which there is no special PCL available. The PCL GENERIC can be neither deleted nor modified.

If you want to...	Read...
add a PCL	section “Adding a PCL” on page 180
delete a PCL	section “Deleting a PCL” on page 181
add comments to PCLs to provide a	section “Assigning a comment to a
better overview	PCL” on page 182
assign a PCL to a printer	section “Assigning a PCL to a printer”
	on page 183
define a PCL yourself	section “Defining a PCL yourself” on
	page 185
Table 21: Administering PCLs

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