Refined Printing Command Stream

Refined Printing Command Stream, also known as RPCS, is a vector-based[1] printing/duplicating control protocol, designed for communication between Microsoft Windows PC clients, and several lines of Ricoh copiers.

Drivers provided by Ricoh install the chosen copier to behave as a printer device.

The size-efficiency of the protocol is comparable to PCL6.

[1] Ricoh offers RPCS based drivers for Windows, Mac OS and to some extent for Linux.

Drivers for Linux are provided only on the Japanese website.