32 Line Matrix Printer PCL II Programmer's Reference Manual

Chapter 1 Software Features

Software Features

The PCL-II emulation software provides the following features:

• Graphics and a selection of print densities. You can enable graphics

mode and specify a density mode (dots per inch).

• Print Attributes. Characters can be bold, italic, double high, double wide,

etc.

• Page Formatting. PCL-II commands allow you to set line spacing, page

length, and vertical forms control.

• Font Typefaces. Also referred to as print modes. The five typefaces

include Near Letter Quality (NLQ), Data Processing (DP), High Speed

(HS), OCR A, and OCR B.

• Character Sets. Forty-seven character sets are available. You can print

the character sets in the different print modes. (OCR A and B character

sets must be printed in OCR A and OCR B print modes.)

• Bar codes. Several bar codes are available, including Code 3 of 9,

Industrial 2 of 5, Interleaved 2 of 5, UPC A, EAN 8, EAN 13, UCC/EAN-

128, UPCE, Royal Mail, Postnet 11.3 cpi, and Postnet 4 cpi.