Laser Printer Applications Manual

TheHewlett-PackardLaserJetseriesIIis anearlierkindoflaserprinterthan

yourStarLaserPrinter8.Youshouldhaveno troublerunningmostpopular

softwarepackagesinHPLaserJetIImode,asthoseprogramslikelycansend

LaserJet11commands.

BecausetheLaserJetII

is alaserprinter,though,itscommandscangiveyou

morecontrolover yourStarLaserPrinter8 than is possiblewiththeother

built-incommandsets.Youwillprobablyusethisemulation’scommands

morethanthe others. Recognizingthat reality,we’veput more examples

intothischapter.

We followthe samesequencein thischapteras we did in Chapter2: first

some printer managementand page setup commands,then we’ll cover

commandsthatpoisethelaser“pen”overthepaper,nextwe’llpicka font,

andfinallywe’lllay downourwordsand pictures.

Attheendofthechapterwedescribehowtocreateanduseyourownfonts,

andalsohow to sav~timeby writingcommand

HP LASERJET II COMMANDS

What do LaserJet

II commands

macros.

look like?

The LaserJet11emulationmodeincludesa dozencommoncontrolcodes

(suchas <CR>forcarnagereturns)andsingle-characterEscapesequences

(such as cESD E for resettingthe printer).But all the other LaserJetII

emulationcommandsyoucan‘sendyourStarLaserPrinter8 looklikethis:

<ESC>cc n C

in whichthe cc prefixis a symbolor two showingthegeneralcategoryof

commandsto whichthisonebelongs,n is somevariableyouwantto usein

thiscommand,andC is the specificcommandyouwantperformed.