HP PCL/PJL reference - Printer Job Language Technical Reference Manual
7-34 Status Readback Commands EN
Note For those printers supporting Japanese printing, when the language 
is set to Japanese, strings which correspond to a control panel 
message are displayed on the control panel using the JIS X0201-76 
character set.
Status Category Description
10
(10-000 to 10-999)
Informational messages which do not indicate errors, such as 
“Device was put online and is ready” or “device was put offline.”
11
(11-000 to 11-999)
These messages indicate background paper mount messages, 
which means one of the available paper input sources is empty, 
but another paper source is available and loaded with the correct 
paper size. The printer remains online during background paper 
mount conditions.
12
(12-000 to 12-999)
Messages indicating background paper tray status, such as “tray 
open” or “tray lifting”. The printer remains online during 
background paper tray status conditions.
15
(15-000 to 15-999)
These messages indicate output bin status, such as “output bin 
full.” The printer goes offline when the output bin is full.
20
(20-000 to 20-999)
This type of message denotes a PJL parser error. When this type 
of error occurs, the entire command line is ignored.
25
(25-000 to 25-999)
These messages are PJL parser errors. When this type of 
message occurs, only part of the PJL command is ignored, 
instead of the whole command as happens with 20-xxx errors.
27
(27-000 to 27-999)
These messages are PJL semantic errors, indicating the 
command syntax is acceptable, but command execution is not 
possible for some reason. A situation that produces a semantic 
error is trying to lock a paper tray when all other paper trays are 
already locked.
30
(30-000 to 30-999)
Most conditions in this category are auto-continuable, indicating 
that if no operator action is taken, the printer automatically 
continues if the auto-continue feature is set to true; if 
auto-continue is set to false, the printer waits until an operator 
presses either the Continue or On Line key. Examples of these 
errors include non-fatal I/O errors or when a page is ejected 
because it is too complex to format without the page protection 
feature enabled.
32
(32-000 to 32-999)
These conditions indicate PJL file system errors and their 
corresponding error codes and control panel display strings.










