There is a good application which can be used on your Macintosh named as PCL to TIFF Converter for Mac. It is specially designed for Mac users to make the conversion from print filesuch as PCL, PXL, PRN, SPL, etc. to different image formats such as TIFF, BMP, PNG, etc. It supports several kinds of compression methods for compressing TIFF file, also, supports to create faxable TIFF.
If you want to use PCL to TIFF Converter for Mac, you need to download it via clicking here.Then please double click the installer and follow the popup installation wizard to set up the application. In the installation procedure, you need to find a suitable destination for the app so that you can find and use it conveniently later.
Then please double click the application icon to open it and you will see the main window of it on your screen like the one shown in Figure 1. Now you can operate to the app. Please add file by clicking Add File (s) button to open the file picker window which allows you to choose the document that you need to convert and please click Open button to add the document into the file list of the application. If you need to remove the added file from the file list, you can click Remove or Clear button.
Figure 1
To set the parameters for the target file, please click Setting button to open Setting dialog box which is shown in Figure 2. If you want to set the TIFF page size, please check Resize Page option and input width and height in Page Size edit box. If you need to customize the image resolution, please check Reset Resolution option and input horizontal and verticle resolution in Resolution edit box. In Color Depth spin box, you can set the color depth for target file. In Convert to spin box, please choose output format as .tif. Then the options in Set TIFF group box will be activated. You can select compression method in Compression spin box or create faxable TIFF by choosing one option in Fax TIFF spin box. Then please click OK button.
Figure 2
When you can see the main interface of PCL to TIFF Converter for Mac, please input the output path for target file in Output Path edit box or choose one in the popup window when you click the side button. At last, please run the conversion from PCL to TIFF by clicking Convert button.