HP LaserJet 8150 Series Printers - Software Technical Reference

PCL 6 and PCL 5e driver features

The Scale to Fit option specifies whether each formatted document page image is

scaled to fit the target paper size. By default, Scale to Fit is selected when Print

Document On: is selected. If the setting is turned off, then the document page images

will not be scaled, and are instead centered at full size on the target paper. If the

document size is larger than the target paper size, then the document image is clipped. If

it is smaller, then it is centered within the target paper. The following illustration shows

preview images for a document formatted for Legal paper with the Print Document On:

option selected, and the target size specified as Letter.

Figure 53: Preview images - legal on letter; Scale to Fit off (left) and on (right)

When the size for which the document is formatted (that is, the logical size) differs from

the target size, the preview image uses a dashed gray line to show the boundaries of the

logical page in relation to the target page size.

The % of Normal Size option provides a slider bar for scaling the percentage setting.

The default setting in the entry box is 100 percent of normal size. Normal size is defined

as the paper size selected within the driver or what the driver receives from the

application (if the application does not negotiate paper size with the driver). The driver will

scale the page by the appropriate factor and send it to the printer.

The limits of the range are from 25 percent to 400 percent, and any values outside the

range are clipped to those limits as soon as the focus is removed from the control (that is,

when the TAB key is pressed or another control is selected).

Any change to the scale will also change the page preview, which increases or

decreases from the top left corner of the preview.

The slider bar controls the scale directly. The value in the edit box changes as the scroll

bar indicator is dragged, and the preview image updates to the new image scale. Each

click on the scroll bar arrows increases or decreases the scale by one percent. Each click

on the slider bar affects the scale by 10 percent.

You cannot achieve an exact value by dragging the scroll bar indicator at the default

Windows resolution; use the scroll bar indicator to approximate the desired value, and