ZPL to PCL

Paste ZPL and get a PCL 5 job for HP LaserJet and other office laser printers. Every label becomes one A4 or Letter page with the label at its original size, 10 mm from the corner - for proofs, return labels or when the label printer is down.

Automate this tool via the API: POST /v1/tools/zpl-to-pcl API docs

Send it to the printer

The file is a finished job: send it unchanged to TCP port 9100 of the printer - no driver needed. Replace the IP address with your printer's.

Linux / macOS

nc -q 1 192.168.1.50 9100 < label.pcl

Windows PowerShell

$c = [Net.Sockets.TcpClient]::new('192.168.1.50', 9100)
$b = [IO.File]::ReadAllBytes("$PWD\label.pcl")
$c.GetStream().Write($b, 0, $b.Length); $c.Close()

With the zplCloud CLI the job goes out byte-exact over TCP or USB, through a watch folder or through the agent to a printer in another network - the CLI can also convert ZPL itself with --language.

zplCloud CLI

zplcloud send --target 192.168.1.50 --file label.pcl
zplcloud send --usb --file label.pcl
zplcloud send --remote-printer 4 --file label.zpl --language pcl
Preview appears here after conversion