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Lightweight Imaging Device Interface Language
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<p>Lightweight Imaging Device Interface Language (abbr. LIDIL) is a printer <a href="/facts/Interface_definition_language/FpByLf4X">interface definition language</a> used in more recent <a href="/facts/Hewlett-Packard/abuNSYNu">Hewlett-Packard</a> <a href="/facts/Computer_printer/PnDF2QuF">printers</a>. </p><p>This language is commonly used on HP Deskjets that do not support the <a href="/facts/Printer_Command_Language/M7C1zrrg">PCL printer language</a>. As the name suggests, the language only supports the definition of raster documents, and is very limited overall. It is a "host-based" protocol which is advertised with LDL in the CMD: (command set) field of the device ID string. Such models do not support printing <a href="/facts/ASCII/vGUI33Qu">ASCII</a> text. </p>