Well-designed business letterheads will as a rule say a great deal about you and especially your business establishment.

Printing on the Mac is done through the Printing Manager, RAM software that is considered part of the low-level operating system software. This code is stored in the system file and loaded into RAM.

PJL was developed by Hewlett-Packard to provide a method for switching printer languages at the job level, and for status readback between the printer and the host computer

The Zj-RCA controller for the Minolta 3001 color laser printer was the first of its kind. While other host-based printing systems with very simple engine interfaces have been built, the Zj-RCA controller was the first to solve the problem with a standard parallel interface, with high performance and while maintaining a low controller cost

Page Control Commands

PCL XL is a Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printer language optimized for printing from graphical user interfaces (GUI) like Microsoft Windows® and OS/2®

HP created PCL to provide an efficient way to control printer features across many different printing devices. PCL was originally devised, in the early 1980s, for HP’s dot matrix and Inkjet printers. The first printer in HP’s LaserJet series, the HP LaserJet was released in 1984 with the PCL 3 Language. The current version is PCL XL

The printer language ESC/P was originally developed by Epson for use with their early dot-matrix printers. Today it is supported also by Epson inkjet and laser printers as well as by many other dot-matrix printers in the market.

PostScript is a page description language produced by Adobe Systems Inc. since the early 1980’s. Adobe was formed in 1982 by Dr. John E. Warnock and Dr. Charles M. Geschke.

ESC/P - Epson Standard Code for Printers