PCLWorks combines a number of useful applications for working with PCL supported printers, in particular HP PCL4 to PCL6. The technology behind PCLWorks is often built into libraries for use y developers and, as their website suggests, with over 120,000 organisations and 50 million people employing the technology chances are you may have experienced the power behind PCLWorks already.

 

PCLWorks is aimed at the end user and provides a set of applications to work with PCL.

A particularly interesting application in the suite is IMG2PCL. When working with PCL devices, such as the HP range of laser printers, you may need a way to convert TIFF and JPEG images into a format for binding with your PCL print stream. This sort of functionality is useful if you want to overlay an image onto a form you have created, use a signature or logo, or if you want to put a macro into a laser printer.

The PCLWorks application also supports various document conversions from PCL to TIF, PNG, BMP, PCX, DCX, EMF, WMF, PDF and XPS formats.

Another handy application is PCLSplit which, as the name implies, allows you to split PCL files into their individual pages and even generate a page count.

PCL Viewer allows you to preview PCL files prior to printing.

PCLWorks, currently up to version 8.76, operates with 32-bit windows platforms (XP, Vista) and version 8.76 has been tested to be compatible with XP Pro 64-bit and Vista 64-bit.

Learn more about PCLWorks at PageTech.

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