>> were not allowed to market a printer that used HPL printing language
>
>You're right, except that I think you mean PCL ("Printer Control
Language").

You are correct. I could not remember exactly what they called it, and
remembered long after I had sent the mail, by which time I was too busy
doing real work :))

As I remember it, there were other manufacturers jumped on the bandwagon and
developed their own PCL printers, which left canon somewhat out in the cold
because they had a contractual obligation not to do so.

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