CaPSL - Canon Printing System Language

CaPSL was the former standard emulation for Canon laser printers. Another name for this emulation is LIPS - Canon Laser-beam Image Processing System. The story behind CaPSL was that because Canon makes printing engines for HP, they weren't allowed to license HP PCL for their own printers. Hence the need for their own printer language. Canon lasers traditionally included CaPSL, IBM ProPrinter, ESC/P and PostScript emulations, but no PCL emulation). This part of the contract between Canon and HP has apparently expired, since nowadays Canon offers printers with PCL 4 and PCL 5 code.

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