HP PCL/PJL reference - Printer Job Language Technical Reference Manual
6-22 Environment Commands EN
PLANESINUSE Defines the number of planes of data in 
a job. A value of 1 indicates a 
monochrome job, while a value of 3 
indicates a color job.
3, 1
POWERSAVE Enables or disables power-saving 
feature.
ON, OFF
POWERSAVETIME Sets the time (in minutes) the printer will 
remain idle before it enters powersave 
mode if powersave is on.
1, 15, 30, 60, 120, 
180, 240, 280,480
PRINTAREA INKEDAREA sets the DesignJet to shift 
the plot to the top/left and advance the 
page cut in order to save media. 
FULLSIZE, 
INKEDAREA
PRINTQUALITY Sets the default print quality for the 
current PJL job.
DRAFT, NORMAL, 
HIGH
QTY Sets the number of collated copies of a 
job.
1 to 999
REFILLDURATION Specifies the amount of ink to be used 
when the printer's pens are refilled 
during printing. NORMAL corresponds 
to 17 cc, QUICK to 5 cc, taking 
approximately 150 and 50 seconds 
respectively.
NORMAL, QUICK
General PJL Environment Variables (continued)
Variable Description
Sample Value 
Range










