HP PCL/PJL reference (PCL 5 Color) - Technical Reference Manual
6-42 Raster Graphics EN
Color Raster Graphics Example
This example demonstrates the Indexed by Pixel PEM of the CID 
command. It produces a one inch wide by one half inch high image of 
one inch high by 0.1 inch wide colored vertical bars. The pixels in the 
image are eight byte indices, repeatedly ranging from 0 to 7, thus 
giving the different colored vertical bars.
The PCL commands are decoded as follows:
In the textual equivalent of the PCL 5 commands shown below, the 
following character representations are used:
• \e stands for the ASCII escape character
• \r is a carriage return
• \x00 to \x07 are the single byte, binary values from 00 to 07
PCL Command Description Command Arguments
<ESC>E Reset
<ESC>*v6W\x00\x01\x08\x
08\x08\x08
Configure Image Data Color space: device RGB
Pixel Encoding Mode: 
indexed by pixel
Bits/Index: 8
Bits/Primary 1: 8
Pits/Primary 2: 8
Bits/Primary 3: 8
<ESC>*t600R Change graphics resolution   600
<ESC>*r600S Set Source Raster Width   600 pixel units
<ESC>*r300T Set Source Raster Height  300 pixel units
<ESC>*r0A Activate graphics mode
<ESC>*b0M Compression method unencoded
<ESC>*b#W  Transfer raster data row (1) 600 bytes
<ESC>*b3M Compression method delta row
<ESC>*b#W  Transfer raster data (299) 600 bytes
<ESC>*rC End raster graphics
<ESC>E Reset










