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
Variables Descri
p
tion Sam
p
le Value Ran
g
e
-500 to 500 dots (HL-1050/1070/1250/1270N/1450/1470N/P2500/ 1650/1670N/2460/7050/1850/ 1870N/5040/5050/5070N/5140/
5150D/5170DN/6050/6050D/
6050DN/8050N/2070N/5240/5250DN/5270DN/5280DW/2140/2150N/2170W/5340D/5350DN/5370DW/5380DN/2130/2240D/2250DN/2
270DW /4140CN/
4150CDN/4570CDW/5440D/5450DN/5470DW/6180DW/S7000DN/3140CW/3150CDW/3150CDN/3170CDW/1110/1111/1112/1118/L82
50CDN/L8350CDW(T)/L9200CDW(T)/L9300CDW(T)/L8260CDN/L8260CDW/L8360CDW(T)/L9310CDW/L2300/L2300D/L2320D/L2321
D/2260/2260D/L2305W/L2340DW/L2360DN/L2361DN/2560DN/L2360DW/L2365DW/L2366DW/2569DW/1212W/1210W/1210WR/1212
WR/1210WE/1211W/1218W/1200/1201/1202/1208/L5000D/5580D/5585D/5595DN/L5102DW/L5100DN(T)/5590DN/L5200DW(T)/L520
2DW/L6200DW(T)/L6202DW/L6250DN/L6250DW/L6300DW(T)/L6400DW(T)/L6402D/L2385DW/L2386DW/2595DW/L2370DW/L2370
DWXL/L2375DW/L2375DWR/L2376DW/B2080DW/L2370DN/L2370DNR/L2371DN/L2372DN/2590DN/B2050DN/2290/L2310D/L2312D
/L2310DR/L2330D/L2331D/L2336D/L2335D/2295D/B2000D/L2325DW/L2350DW/L2350DWR//L2357DW/L2352DW/L2351DW/L3270C
DW/3190CDW/L3230CDW/3160CDW/L3230CDN/L3210CW)
-104 to 500 dots
(
HL-3260N
)
YOFFSET Sets the Y offset ( vertical offset ) value. -500 to 500 dots
AUTOCON
T
Auto Continue Mode ON or OFF
TIMEOUTEMU Sets the time-out value for automatic emulation switchin
g
. 1 to 99 seconds
PRIORIT
Y
Sets the
p
riorit
y
between EPSON or IBM for automatic emulation EPSON or IBM
HPFSEL ALL, LJ4 (HL-1650/1670N/ 3260N/2460/7050/1850/1870N/ 5040/5050/5070N/5140/5150D/ 5170DN/6050/6050D/6050DN/
8050N/2070N/5240/5250DN/5270DN/5280DW/2140/2150N/2170W/5340D/5350DN/5370DW/5380DN/2250DN/2270DW /4140CN/
4150CDN/4570CDW/5440D/5450DN/5470DW/6180DW/S7000DN/3140CW/3150CDW/3150CDN/3170CDW/L8250CDN/L8350CDW(T)
/L9200CDW(T)/L9300CDW(T)/L8260CDN/L8260CDW/L8360CDW(T)/L9310CDW/L2300/L2300D/L2320D/L2321D/2260/2260D/L2305
W/L2340DW/L2360DN/L2361DN/2560DN/L2360DW/L2365DW/L2366DW/2569DW/1212W/1210W/1210WR/1212WR/1210WE/1211W
/1218W/L5000D/5580D/5585D/5595DN/L5102DW/L5100DN(T)/5590DN/L5200DW(T)/L5202DW/L6200DW(T)/L6202DW/L6250DN/L62
50DW/L6300DW(T)/L6400DW(T)/L6402DW/L2385DW/L2386DW/2595DW/L2370DW/L2370DWXL/L2375DW/L2375DWR/L2376DW/B
2080DW/L2370DN/L2370DNR/L2371DN/L2372DN/2590DN/B2050DN/2290/L2310D/L2312D/L2310DR/L2330D/L2331D/L2336D/L2335
D/2295D/B2000D/L2325DW/L2350DW/L2350DWR//L2357DW/L2352DW/L2351DW/L3270CDW/3190CDW/L3230CDW/3160CDW/L32
30CDN/L3210CW)
AUTOFF Sets the auto FF settin
g
to ON or OFF. ON or OFF
TIMEOUTFF Sets the timeout value for auto FF. 1 to 99 seconds
TIMEOUT Sets the timeout value for Automatic interface switchin
g
1 to 99 seconds
CDCCHIGH Sets the hi
g
h-s
p
eed transfer mode of the Centronics interface to ON or ON or OFF
(
HL-1050/1070/1250/1270N/1450/1470N/P2500
)
Selects when DTR becomes low. 0 to 2
(
HL-1050/1070/1250/1270N/1450/1470N/P2500
)
0 = the printer is turned off-line by the SEL switch, the input buffer is full,
o
r wh
e
n
a
p
rin
te
r
e
rr
o
r
occu
r
s
.
0 to 3(HL-1650/1670N/1850/ 1870N/5040/5050/5070N/5140/ 5150D/5170DN)
1 = the
p
rinter is turned off-line b
y
the SEL switch or when a
p
rinter error
2 = the
p
rinter is turned off-line b
y
the SEL switch.
3 = the
p
rinter is never turned off-line.
AUTOSLEEP Sets the automatic slee
p
mode ON or OFF. ON or OFF
1 to 00 minutes
1 to 99 minutes
(
HL-1650/1670N/ 2460/1850/1870N/5040/5050/ 5070N/5140/5150D/5170DN/2140/2150N/2170W
)
1 to 240 minutes
(
HL-3260N/ 7050/6050/6050D/6050DN/8050N/ 2070N/5240/5250DN/5270DN/5280DW
)
1 to 210 minutes
(
HL-5340D/5350DN/5370DW/5380DN/2130/2240D/2250DN/2270DW /4140CN/ 4150CDN/4570CDW
)
1 to 90 minutes
(
HL-5440D/5450DN/5470DW/6180DW
)
0 to 90 minutes (HL-
S7000DN/3140CW/3150CDW/3150CDN/3170CDW/L8250CDN/L8350CDW(T)/L9200CDW(T)/L9300CDW(T)/L8260CDN/L8260CDW/L
8360CDW(T)/L9310CDW/L2300/L2300D/L2320D/L2321D/2260/2260D/L2305W/L2340DW/L2360DN/L2361DN/2560DN/L2360DW/L23
65DW/L2366DW/2569DW/1212W/1210W/1210WR/1212WR/1210WE/1211W/1218W/L5000D/5580D/5585D/5595DN/L5102DW/L5100
DN(T)/5590DN/L5200DW(T)/L5202DW/L6200DW(T)/L6202DW/L6250DN/L6250DW/L6300DW(T)/L6400DW(T)/L6402DW)
0 to 50 minutes (HL-
L2385DW/L2386DW/2595DW/L2370DW/L2370DWXL/L2375DW/L2375DWR/L2376DW/B2080DW/L2370DN/L2370DNR/L2371DN/L23
72DN/2590DN/B2050DN/2290/L2310D/L2312D/L2310DR/L2330D/L2331D/L2336D/L2335D/2295D/B2000D/L2325DW/L2350DW/L235
0DWR//L2357DW/L2352DW/L2351DW/L3270CDW/3190CDW/L3230CDW/3160CDW/L3230CDN/L3210CW)
IBMCHARE1 BETA or ESSZET
ON or OFF
(
HL-1050/1070/1250/1270N/1450/1470N/P2500
)
XOFFSET Sets the X offset ( horizontal offset ) value.
DTRCTRL
TIMEOUTSLEEP Sets the timeout value for automatic sleep mode.
REPRINT Sets the reprint function ON or OFF.
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