Exclusively for Printer Manufacturer Professionals & HP® PCL® Application Developers

San Diego, CA - PageTech, a leading global provider of HP PCL print stream transformation, optimization, debugging, and text extraction products, announced today that it has introduced a new freeware program for troubleshooting PCL, PWG, and PCLm print files. Printer Manufacturer Professionals and PCL Application Developers who register and qualify will gain access to the download area at www.pclworks.net where they can receive a free, annually-licensed copy of PCLWorksDE.

PCLWorksDE Includes:

• PCLWorks.exe -  Converts, views, searches, extracts text, and captures job-ticketing metadata from PCL, PWG, & PCLm
• TNXDumpG.exe - Reformats extracted text from PCL
• PCLFilter.exe - PCL search/replace utility
• PCLCodes.exe - PCL disassembler and debugging tool
• PCLOptimize.exe - Optimizes PCL by eliminating redundant downloaded font resources
• PCLSplit.exe - Splits PCL by pages or by document

“PCLWorksDE provides an industry-exclusive set of troubleshooting tools for printer manufacturer and other PCL application developers,” said Robert Pooley, president of PageTech. “Over the years, we have seen so many printer manufacturer/vendor employees repeatedly download our PCLReader freeware program for PCL file previewing or other daily tasks.  So we decided to provide a more robust set of freeware tools for those professionals who work with PCL on a regular basis to reward them for all the referrals we get from this industry segment.”

Availability and Limitations

Qualifying printer manufacturer professionals and PCL application developers can register for their free copy of PCLWorksDE from PageTech’s www.pclworks.net website. PageTech reserves the right to determine who qualifies for this freeware program based on the information provided during online registration.