{"id":10550,"date":"2014-09-25T08:32:23","date_gmt":"2014-09-25T14:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/news\/?p=10550"},"modified":"2019-09-10T12:29:46","modified_gmt":"2019-09-10T18:29:46","slug":"understanding-pcl-and-its-important-benefits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.barcodesinc.com\/news\/understanding-pcl-and-its-important-benefits\/","title":{"rendered":"Understanding PCL and its Important Benefits"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2014-09-25_0930\"<\/a>Integrating printers<\/a> into existing network environments<\/a> is often a challenging endeavor, even for the most experienced information systems specialists. Thermal printers<\/a> equipped with PCL makes the job fast and easy.<\/p>\n

When Datamax-O\u00e2\u20ac\u2122Neil<\/a> set out to design its Performance Series thermal transfer printers<\/a> for the retail<\/a>, hospitality<\/a>, healthcare<\/a>, distribution<\/a>, warehousing, manufacturing<\/a>, transportation, public service, government and financial industries, it focused on improving overall print quality and end-user experience.<\/p>\n

The printers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 300 dpi print heads and full-color, LCD touch displays have turned heads in the marketplace since being introduced in 2011; but their greatest improvement lies not in what\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s on the outside, but in the ground-breaking application of standard printer languages and open-source software development modules that give technology administrators freedom to define how the printers will operate within their organizations.<\/p>\n

Information technologists charged with managing and maintaining extensive printer networks within global enterprises will appreciate the flexibility they now have at their fingertips to extend the value of their printer networks to save employees time and money.<\/p>\n

Why is PCL a Differentiator?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Unlike most technology solutions, thermal printers have not used an open standard programming language for communication and print control. Printer manufacturers developed their own proprietary languages because it was easy to develop, required a minimal investment to enter the market and there were no incentives to standardize a printer language in the thermal printing industry.<\/p>\n

Over the years, the lack of a standard printer language in the thermal printing industry has created a number of problems for system integrators, among them:<\/p>\n