On 5/29/21 6:42 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote: > On Sun, 30 May 2021, dwight via cctalk wrote: >> I had a Brother daisy wheel that would do a single step of the stepper >> and a second strike, for bold. You need to have the right esc >> sequence. Just about every printer is different until HP had a >> standard( pscl5 as I recall ). > > Prior to the HP PCL (Printer Command Language), quite a few printers put > in Epson [MX80] emulation. > > HP introduced PCL in 1984. > > When they introduced the LaserJet["Minus"] (still in 1984) they were up > to PCL 3. > > LaserJet PLUS got PCL 4. That remained active for a very long time. > "Intellifont" font scaling was in PCL 5 (for LaserJet III?) > > PCL 6 (1995?) was optimized for Windows. >
My Panasonic laser printer purchased sometime before 1990, did PCL, Epson MX and Diablo 630 emulation. --Chuck
