Eltron Programming Language (EPL) is a
printer control language
In digital printing, a page description language (PDL) is a computer language that describes the appearance of a printed page in a higher level than an actual output bitmap (or generally raster graphics). An overlapping term is printer control lan ...
used to produce printed
label
A label (as distinct from signage) is a piece of paper, plastic film, cloth, metal, or other material affixed to a container or product, on which is written or printed information or symbols about the product or item. Information printed dir ...
s for various
Eltron model
printers
Printer may refer to:
Technology
* Printer (publishing), a person or a company
* Printer (computing), a hardware device
* Optical printer for motion picture films
People
* Nariman Printer ( fl. c. 1940), Indian journalist and activist
* Jame ...
.
It was superseded by
Zebra Programming Language (ZPL) after
Zebra Technologies
Zebra Technologies Corporation is an American mobile computing company specializing in technology used to sense, analyze, and act in real time. The company manufactures and sells marking, tracking, and computer printing technologies. Its product ...
acquired Eltron.
EPL2
EPL2 is a markup, line-at-a-time language, suitable for printing on media of reduced space, and although it supports bitmaps (and therefore, arbitrary images), its use is usually for labels including barcode information.
Each EPL2 line starts with one or more letters (indicating the command), and may be followed by one or more comma-separated arguments. Commands and arguments are case-sensitive.
Arguments that are numeric or belong to a fixed set of options (see i.e. the ''reverse'' argument for A) are inlined, and any string or set of variable values must be surrounded by double-quotes (" - see i.e. the ''text'' argument for A).
References
External links
Git repository containing manuals for EPL and Java code* {{cite web , url=https://support.zebra.com/cpws/docs/eltron/epl2/EPL2_Prog.pdf , title=EPL Programming Guide , access-date=2014-06-03
Page description languages