Command Reference Guide for Software Developers
Table Of Contents
- Technical Reference Guide
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- GLOSSARY
- CHAPTER 1 INTRODUCTION
- CHAPTER 2 PCL PRINTER CONTROL LANGUAGE
- 1. COMMAND LIST
- 2. INTRODUCTION
- 3. CONTROLLING THE PRINTER
- 4. JOB CONTROL
- 4.1 . Commands
- 4.1.1. Page size
- 4.1.2. Media type selection
- 4.1.3. Output tray
- 4.1.4. Paper source
- 4.1.5. Left long-edge offset registration
- 4.1.6. Top offset registration
- 4.1.7. Simplex/duplex printing
- 4.1.8. Paper side selection
- 4.1.9. Job separation command
- 4.1.10. Reset
- 4.1.11. Reset to factory default settings
- 4.1.12. Reset to user settings
- 4.1.13. Printer self test
- 4.1.14. Exit current emulation mode
- 4.1.15. Change emulation mode
- 4.2. The Page
- 4.2.1. Physical page
- 4.2.2. Printable area
- 4.2.3. Logical page
- 4.2.4. Text area
- 4.2.5. HP-GL/2 graphics window
- 4.2.6. Portrait page dimensions
- 4.2.7. Landscape page dimensions
- 4.2.8. Coordinates
- 4.2.9. Units
- 4.2.10. Unit of measure
- 4.2.11. Setting the left and right margins
- 4.2.12. Resetting the horizontal margins
- 4.2.13. Setting the top margin
- 4.2.14. Setting the vertical motion index (VMI)
- 4.2.15. Setting the horizontal motion index (HMI)
- 4.2.16. Setting line spacing
- 4.2.17. Text length
- 4.2.18. Page length
- 4.2.19. Perforation skip
- 4.2.20. Positioning the cursor
- 4.2.21. Vertical positioning
- 4.2.22. Horizontal position
- 4.2.23. Positioning the cursor using control codes
- 4.2.24. Using the cursor position stack
- 4.2.25. Half line feed
- 4.2.26. Logical page orientation
- 4.2.27. Text direction
- 4.1 . Commands
- 5. USING FONTS
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.1.1. Font types
- 5.1.2. Bitmap fonts
- 5.1.3. Scalable fonts
- 5.1.4. Bound fonts
- 5.1.5. Unbound fonts
- 5.1.6. Font sources
- 5.1.7. Internal fonts
- 5.1.8. Card/cartridge fonts
- 5.1.9. Downloadable fonts
- 5.1.10. Primary and secondary fonts
- 5.1.11. Specifying the primary font
- 5.1.12. Specifying the secondary font
- 5.1.13. Selecting the default fonts
- 5.1.14. Switching between the primary and secondary fonts
- 5.1.15. Criteria for font selection
- 5.1.16. Symbol set
- 5.1.17. Symbol collections
- 5.1.18. Type of character spacing
- 5.1.19. Pitch
- 5.1.20. Height
- 5.1.21. Style
- 5.1.22. Stroke weight
- 5.1.23. Typeface
- 5.2. Font Selection Commands
- 5.2.1. User-defined symbol sets
- 5.2.2. Symbol set ID code command
- 5.2.3. Define symbol set
- 5.2.4. Symbol set control command
- 5.2.5. Selecting the symbol set
- 5.2.6. Selecting the type of character spacing
- 5.2.7. Selecting the pitch
- 5.2.8. Selecting the height
- 5.2.9. Scaling the scalable fonts vertically or horizontally
- 5.2.10. Selecting the style
- 5.2.11. Selecting the stroke weight
- 5.2.12. Selecting the typeface
- 5.2.13. Font orientation
- 5.2.14. Transparent print data
- 5.2.15. Esc&d#D (27)(38)(100)#(68) <1Bh><26h><64h>#<44h>
- 5.3. Downloadable font manipulation
- 5.4. Creating Downloadable Fonts
- 5.1. Introduction
- 6. USING GRAPHICS
- 6.1. Source, Pattern and Destination
- 6.2. Plotting Rectangles
- 6.3. Raster Graphics
- 6.3.1. Positioning the cursor
- 6.3.2. Set raster resolution
- 6.3.3. Set high resolution control
- 6.3.4. Set raster image orientation
- 6.3.5. Set raster area height
- 6.3.6. Set raster area width
- 6.3.7. Set raster y-offset
- 6.3.8. Set compression mode
- 6.3.9. Start raster transfer
- 6.3.10. Send raster data
- 6.3.11. Compress transfer graphics
- 6.3.12. End raster transfer
- 6.3.13. Horizontal 1200-dpi image format mode (Raster Graphic Mode 1027)
- 6.4. Vector Graphics
- 6.5. The Picture Frame
- 7. MACROS
- 7.1. The Purpose of a Macro
- 7.2. Defining a Macro
- 7.3. Running a Macro
- 7.4. Handling Macros
- 7.4.1. Delete all macros
- 7.4.2. Delete all temporary macros
- 7.4.3. Delete macro
- 7.4.4. Make macro temporary
- 7.4.5. Make macro permanent
- 7.4.6. Delete all macros from the storage device
- 7.4.7. Delete macro from the storage device
- 7.4.8. Save macro into the storage device
- 7.4.9. Execute data
- 7.4.10. AppleTalk configuration
- 7.4.11. MIO video I/O port control
- 8. STATUS READBACK
- 8.1. Introduction
- 8.2. Memory Status request
- 8.3. Entity Status
- 8.4. Status Response
- 8.5. Status Response Syntax
- 8.5.1. Set status readback location type
- 8.5.2. Set status readback location unit
- 8.5.3. Inquire status readback entity
- 8.5.4. Entity status response
- 8.5.5. Font response
- 8.5.6. Bitmap fonts
- 8.5.7. Bound scalable fonts
- 8.5.8. Unbound scalable fonts
- 8.5.9. Download fonts
- 8.5.10. Location type 1 (currently selected) font
- 8.5.11. Font extended response
- 8.5.12. Macro response
- 8.5.13. Use-defined pattern response
- 8.5.14. Symbol set response
- 8.5.15. Entity error codes
- 8.5.16. Free space command
- 8.5.17. Font cache
- 8.5.18. Memory status response
- 8.5.19. Memory error response
- 8.5.20. Flush all pages command
- 8.5.21. Echo command
- 9. INDEX
- CHAPTER 3 PCL5C
- CHAPTER 4 HP-GL/2 GRAPHICS LANGUAGE
- CHAPTER 5 PJL PRINTER JOB LANGUAGE
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. HOW TO USE PJL
- 3. COMMAND GROUP
- 4. KERNEL COMMANDS
- 5. JOB SEPARATION COMMANDS
- 6. ENVIRONMENT COMMANDS
- 7. STATUS READBACK COMMANDS
- 8. DEVICE ATTENDANCE COMMANDS
- 9. INDEX
- CHAPTER 6 EPSON FX-850
- CHAPTER 7 IBM PROPRINTER XL
- CHAPTER 8 BAR CODE CONTROL
- 1. INTRODUCTION
- 2. PRINT BAR CODES OR EXPANDED CHARACTERS
- 3. DEFINITION OF PARAMETERS
- 3.1. Bar Code Mode
- 3.2. Bar Code Style, Expanded Character Shading, Line Block Drawing & Box Drawing Shading
- 3.3. Bar Code Scaling (Width only)
- 3.4. Bar Code Human Readable Line On or Off
- 3.5. Quiet Zone
- 3.6. Bar Code, Expanded Character Unit, Line Block Drawing & Box Drawing Units
- 3.7. Bar Code, Expanded Character, Line, Block Drawing & Box Drawing Offset in the X-axis
- 3.8. Bar Code & Expanded Character Offset in the Y-axis
- 3.9. Bar Code, Expanded Character, Line, Block Drawing & Box Drawing Height
- 3.10. Expanded Character, Line Block Drawing & Box Drawing Width
- 3.11. Expanded Character Rotation
- 3.12. Bar Code Data Start
- 3.13. Box Drawing
- 3.14. Line Block Drawing
- 3.15. Expanded Character Data Start
- 3.16. Table of Code(EAN) 128 set C
- 4. EXAMPLE PROGRAM LISTINGS
- CHAPTER 9 HP-GL GRAPHICS LANGUAGE
- CHAPTER 10 CARBON COPY FUNCTION
- APPENDIX A COMPARISON LIST
- APPENDIX B FLASH/PCMCIA CARD COMMANDS
- APPENDIX C HBP MODE COMMANDS
- APPENDIX D REFERENCE LIST OF MX-2000/4000/5000/7000 SERIES UNIQUE COMMANDS
- APPENDIX E REFERENCE LIST OF FS-5050 UNIQUE COMMANDS
- APPENDIX F REFERENCE LIST OF SF- 4000 SERIES UNIQUE COMMANDS
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5. USING FONTS
5.1. Introduction
A font is a collection of characters that have common characteristics, such as size, style and typeface, and which
ranges over a given set of symbols. For example, 12 point Tennessee Bold in the Roman-8 symbol set is a
typical HL Series font. Different sorts of fonts are used to create various typographic effects. Traditionally, large
point size sans serif typeface fonts, like Helsinki and Utah are used for document headlines while smaller fonts
with serif typefaces, like Tennessee and Portugal are used for body text. In LaserJet mode you can have access
to a large range of fonts that are already built in to the printer's ROM, plus the facility for downloading more
fonts from a personal computer or plugging in font cards/cartridges or the storage device. When you select a
font for printing you will specify a number of characteristics which identify the font you require. The laser / ink
printer does its best to print using the font you specified, but if amongst all its available fonts it does not have
the exact one that you specified, it will compromise and give you what it regards as the closest available font.
Sometimes the results will not be what you expected and you should exercise care in selecting fonts for printing.
In most instances the selection of a font will be handled automatically from your word processing software or
other applications package. In these cases you need only ensure that the correct font is available (that is, as a
standard font in the ROM, on cartridge/card or downloaded) and the application will do the rest. You do not
need to concern yourself with sending any escape sequences.
As well as using software commands you can also select fonts using the printer's control panel. Consult the
printer User Guide for details.
5.1.1. Font types
There are two types of fonts supported by the HL Series printers in LaserJet mode - bitmap fonts and scalable
fonts.
5.1.2. Bitmap fonts
The characters which make up a bitmap font are raster bit images of the relevant symbols. When text is printed
using the font it is nearly always monospaced and when you select the font you specify it by its typeface, pitch
(the number of characters printed per inch), height (point size) and symbol set.
5.1.3. Scalable fonts
The printer has many scalable fonts available as standard. The following table shows scalable fonts available
for models HL-1050/1070/1250/1270N/1450/1470N/P2500/1660e/2060/2400C/2400Ce/
3400CN/1650/1670N/2460/7050/1850/1870N/5040/5050/5070N/5140/5150D/5170DN/2600CN/3450CN/6050/
6050D/6050DN/8050N/2700CN/2070N/4040CN/4050CDN/4070CDW/2150N/2170W/5240/5250DN/5270DN/
5280DW/5340D/5350DN/5370DW/5380DN/3070CW/3075CW/2250DN/2270DW/4140CN/4150CDN/4570C
DW/L2360DN/L2360DW/L2365DW/2560DN/2569DW/S7000DN/L2370DN/L2371DN/L2372DN/2590DN/B
2050DN/L2370DW/L2375DW/L2376DW/B2080DW/L2385DW/L2386DW/2595DW/L3270CDW/L3230CD
W/L3230CDN/L3210CW/3190CDW/3160CDW. (For the other models' resident fonts, please see the printer
User's Guide.)
Intellifont Compatible Fonts:
HL-1050/1070/1250/1270N/1450/1470N/P2500/1660e/
2060/2400C/2400Ce/3400CN/1650/1670N/3260N/
2460/7050/1850/1870N/5040/5050/5070N/5140/
5150D/5170DN/2600CN/3450CN/6050/6050D/
6050DN/8050N/2700CN/2070N/5240/5250DN/5270
DN/5280DW/4040CN/4050CDN/4070CDW/2150N/2
170W/5340D/5350DN/5370DW/5380DN/3070CW/3
075CW/2250DN/2270DW/4140CN/4150CDN/4570C
DW/5440D/5450DN/5470DW/6180DW/S7000DN/31
70CDW/L8250CDN/L8350CDW/L9200CDW/
L9300CDW/L2360DN/L2360DW/L2365DW/25
60DN/2569DW/L2370DN/L2371DN/L2372DN/
2590DN/B2050DN/L2370DW/L2375DW/L237
6DW/B2080DW/L2385DW/L2386DW/2595D
W/L3270CDW/L3230CDW/L3230CDN/L3210
CW/3190CDW/3160CDW
Alaska Medium, Extra Bold
Antique Oakland Medium, Oblique, Bold
PcBrussels Light, Light italic, Demi, Demi italic
Oklahoma Medium, Oblique, Bold, BoldOblique