HP 240A User Manual

DocuPrint 240A/340A

HP-GL, HP-GL/2 Emulation

Settings Guide

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Preface

Thank you for choosing this printer.

This manual explains how to set up the printer to perform HP-GL/2 emulation. Be sure to read this manual first to ensure proper use of this product.

Note that this manual is written for users who have basic knowledge of the operating environment and operation method as well as the method of using the printer.

Keep this manual handy for a quick reference to ensure full and efficient use of this product.

Preface 3

Types of Manuals

Manuals Bundled With the Machine & Their Contents

Setup and Quick Reference Guide Explains how to install this printer, load paper, and troubleshoot of

The Online Help for the CentreWare Internet Services

The Online Help for the printer driver

User Guide (PDF) Explains printer settings, and describes control panel menu items

Network Print Environment User Guide (PDF)

HP-GL, HP-GL/2 Emulation Settings Guide (PDF)

Manuals Bundled With Optional Accessories

this printer.

Explains how to set the items and features of CentreWare Internet Services.

Explains how to set the items and features of the printer driver.

and daily care in detail. This PDF file is included in the CD-ROM bundled with this printer.

Explains how to set the printer for the network environment to use this printer as a network printer. This PDF file is included in the CD-ROM bundled with this printer.

Explains how to set the emulation mode for HP-GL and HP-GL/2. This PDF file is included in the CD-ROM bundled with this printer.

User Guide (PostScript Kit) (PDF)

Installation Guide

Note

• Adobe

Acrobat® Reader needs to be installed to display PDF files.

Software

Explains how to set the printer as a PostScript printer and the items that can be set in the printer driver. This PDF file is included in the CD-ROM bundled with the PostScript software kit.

Explains how to install each optional accessory.

4 Types of Manuals

Preface.............................................................................................................. 3

Types of Manuals.............................................................................................. 4

Contents............................................................................................................ 5

Using This Guide .............................................................................................. 6

1 Using Emulation ......................................................................................... 7

1.1 About Emulation ...................................................................................................... 7

1.2 Default Settings ....................................................................................................... 9

1.3 About Fonts ........................................................................................................... 10

1.4 Eject Function........................................................................................................ 11

Emulation Mode .......................................................................................................7

Host Interfaces and Emulation ................................................................................ 7

Switching Between Print Languages .......................................................................8

Mode Menu Screen ................................................................................................. 8

Limits During Auto Layout Mapping ........................................................................ 9

Paper Margin ......................................................................................................... 10

Usable Fonts ......................................................................................................... 10

Font Cache ............................................................................................................10

To Forcibly Eject Remaining Data .........................................................................11

To Eject All Jobs in the Printer .............................................................................. 12

2 HP-GL Mode Settings .............................................................................. 13

2.1 About Mode Menu ................................................................................................. 13

This Printer’s Menus .............................................................................................. 13

About Mode Menu ................................................................................................. 14

2.2 HP-GL Mode Menu Settings.................................................................................. 15

List of HP-GL/2 Setting Items ................................................................................ 15

Setting the HP-GL Mode Menu ............................................................................. 22

2.3 About the HP-GL Mode List................................................................................... 23

HP-GL/2 Mode List ................................................................................................23

Print Method .......................................................................................................... 24

3 Materials Related to HP-GL Mode ........................................................... 25

3.1 Hard Clip Area ....................................................................................................... 25

3.2 Printable Area........................................................................................................ 26

3.3 Auto Layout ........................................................................................................... 28

What Is Auto Layout? ............................................................................................ 28

Making the Auto Layout Function Effective ........................................................... 28

Details on Setting Items ......................................................................................... 28

Determining the Document Size ............................................................................30

Determining the Output Size ................................................................................. 31

Determining the Scaling Factor .............................................................................33

Limits During Auto Layout Mapping .......................................................................34

Examples of Combinations of Functions ............................................................... 35

Index ............................................................................................................... 37

List of Mode Menu (HP-GL)

Contents 5

Using This Guide

Prerequisite Knowledge

Read this guide in detail before using this printer. If you are not familiar with the machine to which the printer is to be connected or the basic operations or concepts of the software, read the relevant manuals first.

Machines and software to which the printer is to be connected refer to personal computers, workstations, networks, and the respective operating systems and applications on which these machines run.

Organization

The following is a summary of each chapter.

1. Using Emulation

This chapter explains the available interfaces and fonts, emulated printers, and doing operations with the default settings.

2. HP-GL Mode Settings

This chapter explains the printer settings needed to use HP-GL emulation.

3. Materials Related to HP-GL Mode

This chapter explains the hard clip area, number of printable digits for various paper sizes, and auto layout among other functions.

Conventions

1. In this guide, “computer” refers to both the personal computer and workstation.

2. The following icons are used in this guide:

3. The following conventions are used in this guide:

Important Indicates important information which you should read.

Note Indicates additional information on operations or features.

Refer to Indicates reference sources.

Refer to “xxx” : The cross-reference is within this guide.

Refer to xxx : The cross-reference is not within this guide.

[ ] : Indicates items displayed on the computer and the printer control

panel. Also indicates the title of printed report/lists from the printer.

< > : Indicates items such as hard buttons and indicators on the keyboard

and printer.

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1 Using Emulation

1.1 About Emulation

This chapter explains HP-GL, HP-GL/2 emulation of the print language available on this printer.

Print data follows certain rules (grammar). These rules (grammar) are called a print language.

This printer supports a page description language used to create images on a page basis and an emulation feature used to obtain the print result similar to that obtained by another printer. The ability to obtain the print result similar to that obtained by other printers is called emulation.

Emulation Mode

When printing data written in a language other than the page description language supported by this machine, place this printer in the emulation mode. This printer has more than one emulation mode. The following table summarizes the relationship between the HP-GL, HP-GL/2 emulation mode and the printer type to be emulated.

Emulation mode Emulated printer

HP-GL emulation mode (HP-GL mode) 7586B or DJ750C Plus

HP-GL/2 emulation mode (HP-GL/2 mode) DJ760C Plus

In the HP-GL mode, the modes switch between the HP-GL mode, HP-GL/2 mode, and HP-RTL.

For the HP-GL/2 mode, the mode is fixed as HP-GL/2 and HP-RTL.

Host Interfaces and Emulation

Different host interfaces support different print languages. Host interfaces that support print languages are as follows:

• Parallel port

• Serial port

•LPD port

• NetWare port

• SMB port

• IPP port

• USB port

• Port9100 port

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Switching Between Print Languages

This printer supports multi-emulation, allowing you to switch between print languages.

There are three methods of switching between print languages.

Switching by Commands

Commands for switching between print languages are provided. Upon receipt of a command, this printer selects the relevant print language.

Automatic Switching

This printer analyzes the data received by the host interface to identify the print language to be used. It then switches to the identified print language automatically.

Interface-dependent

Set a print language for each host interface using the control panel. Switch to the print language corresponding to the host interface that received data.

Mode Menu Screen

This screen is used to set items specific to HP-GL emulation mode. Press the <Menu> button to display the HP-GL mode menu screen and then select [HPGL] in [Print Language].

Refer to

• Information on HP-GL mode menu items: “2 HP-GL Mode Settings” (P. 13)

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1.2 Default Settings

You can print in the following ways with the HP-GL and HP-GL/2 emulation modes set to the default settings. The document data is enlarged or reduced (auto layout) to match the size of the paper being used.

Document Size: Auto, Coord. Rotation: 0, Zoom Mode: Output Size, Zoom: On

Document size Output size

Printable area

Note

• If necessary, you may change the default settings. See “2 HP-GL Mode Settings” (P. 13) for information

on changing settings.

Limits During Auto Layout Mapping

When the Hard Disk (Optional) Is Installed in the Printer

Print data is stored to the hard disk when Auto Layout is executed.

When the Hard Disk (Optional) Is not Installed in the Printer

Print data is stored to the Auto Layout memory when [auto layout function] is executed. The initial capacity of the Auto Layout memory is 64 KB. Therefore, this printer cannot correctly output auto layout if the print data received by the auto layout memory exceeds 64 KB. In this case, change the size of the Auto Layout memory from the printer control panel. The upper limit of the Auto Layout memory is 5,120 KB. The auto layout memory cannot accept data larger than 5,120 KB.

We recommend installing the hard disk (optional) to this printer if you are going to use the auto layout function.

1.2 Default Settings 9

Paper Margin

The default output size is set to [A Size]. If the print data exceeds the effective coordinate area at all, it will be printed on the next larger size (for example, the next paper larger than A5 is A4). When paper margin is set, the area set for the paper margin rather than the area recognized by [Area Determine] sets the effective coordinate area. Do these settings if printing is done on a paper size larger than the size you want. Setting range is from 0 to 99 mm. The default value is 0 mm.

Refer to

• “2 HP-GL Mode Settings” (P. 13)

1.3 About Fonts

This section explains about the fonts that can be used in the HP-GL emulation mode.

Usable Fonts

The following fonts can be used in HP-GL emulation.

• Stroke font

Font Cache

To ensure high-speed printing, outline fonts are cached if they are not too large.

Outline fonts are converted to bit map data temporarily and then printed. To minimize this processing time, the processed bit map data is saved in the memory.

This process is called font cashing.

The saved bit map data is erased at power-off or system reset.

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1.4 Eject Function

This section explains the eject function. There are two types of eject functions as shown here.

• The remaining data is forcibly ejected.

• All the jobs in the printer are eliminated.

To Forcibly Eject Remaining Data

For HP-GL and HP-GL/2 emulation modes, data is not ejected until a full page of data has accumulated. When using a parallel interface, if operations stop while the data for the last page is being transferred, the printer waits for the next data until the time set [Auto Eject Time] has passed, and the “Waiting for data” appears in the display.

In this kind of situation, forced eject does not wait for automatic eject and just forces all of the data in the printer to print out.

The procedure is shown below.

Note

• When “Waiting for data” appears in the display, the next job sent to the printer may not be printed

correctly. Send the next job after forced eject or after the automatic eject time has been exceeded.

Refer to

• Auto Eject Time: User Guide 4.2 Description of Menu Items

1. Press the <Eject/Set> button when the

display shown to the right appears.

Printing will start.

When printing is finished, “Ready to print” appears in the display.

Important

• When the common menu item [Print Mode] is set to

[Auto], “Waiting for data” does not appear, so forced eject does not occur.

<Eject/Set> button

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To Eject All Jobs in the Printer

Print all the jobs that the printer has received.

Through this procedure, you can interrupt the receiving of data and empty the buffer. The procedure is explained below.

1. Press the <Online> button when the display

shown to the right appears.

Note

• Press the <Online> button to make the printer

automatically stop receiving data.

<Online> button

2. Press the <Eject/Set> button.

Printing will start.

All the jobs are printed and “Off-line” appears in the display.

Note

• When a parallel interface or USB interface is being

used, depending on when the <Online> button is pressed in step 1, data reception may occur in the middle of a job. In this situation, data after that is recognized as a new job, after the <Eject/Set> button is pressed, and processed like a new job after releasing offline in step

3. Press the <Online> button.

“Ready to print” appears in the display.

Note

• After “Ready to print” appears, data that is being

processed as a new job may not be printed correctly if [Print Mode] is set to [Auto] in the common menu.

<Eject/Set> button

<Online> button

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