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<p>In <a href="page.php?w=digital_printing">digital printing</a>, a <b>page description language</b> (<b>PDL</b>) is a computer language that describes the appearance of a printed page in a higher level than an actual output <a href="page.php?w=bitmap">bitmap</a> (or generally <a href="page.php?w=raster_graphics">raster graphics</a>). An overlapping term is <b>printer control language</b>, which includes Hewlett-Packard's <a href="page.php?w=Printer_Command_Language">Printer Command Language</a> (PCL). <a href="page.php?w=PostScript">PostScript</a> is</p><p>
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