HP PCL/PJL reference (PCL 5 Printer Language) - Technical Reference Manual Part II
EN CO, Comment 19-19
The IW command lets you control the size of the HP-GL/2 printing 
area so that you can draw a particular portion of a drawing. You can 
leave the rest as white space, or use the remaining area for labels, or 
another drawing. Refer to “The Vector Graphic Limits” in Chapter 17, 
and the IW command description later in this chapter.
CO, Comment 
This command allows comments to be inserted within an HP-GL/2 
command sequence. The comment string of the CO command must 
be delimited by double quotes.
CO “text ... text”
HP-GL/2 comments are ignored by the printer.
DF, Default Values 
This command returns the printer’s HP-GL/2 settings to the factory 
default settings. Use the Default Values (DF) command to return the 
printer to a known state while maintaining the current locations of P1 
and P2 (unlike the IN command). When you use DF at the beginning 
of a command sequence, graphics parameters such as character 
size, slant, or scaling are defaulted.
DF [;]
The DF command resets the printer to the conditions listed in Table 
19-7.
Table 19-7 Default Conditions
Function Command Default Condition
Anchor Corner  AC  Anchor corner (not the 
same as the picture frame 
anchor point) set to 
lower-left corner of PCL 
Picture Frame, relative to 
the current coordinate 
system.
Alternate Font 
Definition 
AD  Stick Font (11.5-pt., 9-cpi, 
upright, medium)
Character Fill Mode  CF  Solid fill, no edging.










