HP PCL/PJL reference - Printer Job Language Technical Reference Addendum
98 Chapter 3 Product-specific features ENWW
PAPER 
(Letter, Legal, Ledger, 
A3, A4, Executive, 
JISB4, and JISB5 are 
paper sizes; Com10, C5, 
DL, Monarch, and B5 
are envelope sizes; 
JPOST and JPOSTD 
are Japanese postcard 
sizes; CUSTOM is for 
feeding other sizes, such 
as 3 x 5 cards and 
labels)
A3 ns Y ns
A4
1
YYY
A5 YYY
B5 YYY
CUSTOM YYY
COM10 YYY
C5 YYY
DL
1
YYY
EXECUTIVE Y Y Y
ISOB5 Y Y ns
JISB4 nsnsns
JISB5 YYY
JISEXEC Y Y Y
JPOST Y ns ns
JPOSTD Y ns Y
LEDGER ns ns ns
LEGAL YYY
LETTER
1
(Y) (Y) (Y)
MONARCH Y Y Y
ROC8K nsnsns
ROC16K Y Y Y
EIGHTPOINT5X13 ns ns ns
FOOLSCAP ns ns ns
PASSWORD
2
MINIMUM 0 0 0
MAXIMUM 65535 65535 65535
DEFAULT 0 0 0
PERSONALITY AUTO (Y) (Y) (Y)
PCL YYY
POSTSCRIPT Y Y Y
PDF nsnsns
PLANESINUSE 1 (Y) (Y) (Y)
3 YYY
POWERSAVE ON (Y) (Y) (Y)
OFF YYY
POWERSAVEMODE ENERGYSTAR ns ns ns
BLUEANGEL ns ns ns
The information contained in this table is subject to change without notice. To 
ensure that the specific support information is correct, test these variable settings 
on your product.
1
If the product is configured for metric paper sizes, A4 is the default paper size 
and DL is the default envelope size.
2
The PASSWORD variable is supported only with DEFAULT, DINQUIRE, and 
INQUIRE.
Table 13. PJL environmental variables for HP color LaserJet products 
Environment
variable
Variable 
values
2500 
series
4550 
series
4600 
series










