how to make use of daisy wheel printer

[Chuck Guzis]

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