The printer languages your printer supports can be determined by reading your printer's documentation. Many printers can support multiple languages. For example, many printers now support both PCL and PostScript print jobs.

Commands can be sent to these printers to cause them to switch languagess. For example, to print a PostScript job on a printer that supports both PostScript and PCL jobs, a command sequence may need to be sent with the job that tells the printer to “SwitchToPostScript.” This command sequence can be referenced in a print job configuration and implemented by using the J= option with CAPTURE or NPRINT using the following syntax:

CAPTURE J=SWITCHPS

or

NPRINT J=SWITCHPS

Some printers can detect the language used by a print job and switch to the appropriate language automatically.