OKI OL1200ex User Guide

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Introduction i

Introduction

ii Introduction

Note to Customers

Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this document is complete, accurate and up to date. Oki assumes no responsibility for errors beyond its control and also can not guarantee that changes in software and equipment made by other manufacturers, and referred to in this book, will not affect the information in this manual.

Oki is a registered trademark of Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. Oki LED Page Printer is a trademark of Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd. Hewlett-Packard and LaserJet are registered trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Company. Microsoft is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. Bitstream, Fontware, Swiss™ and Dutch™ are trademarks of Bitstream Inc. Helvetica AG and its subsidiaries. CG Times

and Times® Roman and Univers® are registered trademarks of Linotype

is a registered trademark of Agfa Division, Miles Inc.

Important Safety Instructions

Your printer has been carefully designed to perform safely and reliably. However, as with all electrical equipment certain precautions should be allowed:

➢ Read all documentation supplied with and on the printer before commencing. ➢ Always disconnect the printer from the mains source before cleaning. ➢ Be certain that your power source matches the rating listed on the back of the

printer. If you are using an extension cord, ensure that the total rating does not exceed 15 amperes.

➢ Your printer has an earthed 3-pin plug, DO NOT use this plug with a socket that

is not earthed.

➢ Ensure that all printer openings are kept open, if they become blocked the printer

will overheat.

➢ Use a damp cloth to clear up spilled toner, DO NOT use a vacuum cleaner. ➢ DO NOT make any adjustments, other than those outlined in this manual, it could

damage the printer.

➢ After the printer has been in use for a period of time the fuser unit becomes very

hot, avoid touching it, wait for the unit to cool down first.

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If you have persistent problems with your printer, switch off, disconnect from the mains source and contact your dealer for assistance.

Important Wiring Instructions

The wires in the mains lead are coloured in accordance with the following code:

If the colours of the wires in the mains lead of this printer do not correspond with the markings of the terminals of your plug, proceed as follows:

Green and Yellow must be connected to the terminal marked with the letter E (or the safety earth symbol) or the terminal coloured Green or Green and Yellow. Brown must be connected to the terminal marked with the letter L or coloured Red. Blue must be connected to the terminal marked with the letter N or coloured Blue or Black.

Warning: This printer must be earthed.

Green and Yellow Earth Blue Neutral Brown Live

If you are in any doubt regarding the wiring, please contact a qualified electrician.

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Table of Contents

Chapter 1: The Control Panel ...................................................................1-1

The Control Panel........................................................................................1-2

Printer Status ...............................................................................................1-2

Lamp Indications ......................................................................................... 1-2

Setting the Printer On and Off-line .............................................................1-3

Resetting the Printer .................................................................................... 1-3

Manual Paper Feed and Paper Tray Selection.............................................1-3

Front/Manual Paper Size and Envelope Feeder Paper Size Definition.......1-4

Power Saving Definition .............................................................................1-4

Auto Error – Override Printing....................................................................1-5

Darker/Lighter Print Quality .......................................................................1-5

Maintenance Menu Items ............................................................................1-5

Level-1 Menu Reset to factory default ........................................................1-5

Hex Dump Analysis.....................................................................................1-6

Cleaning Page .............................................................................................. 1-6

Drum Life Counter Reset ............................................................................1-7

Operation Panel Disable ..............................................................................1-7

Operation Panel Enable ...............................................................................1-7

Chapter 2: Controlling Your Printer ......................................................... 2-1

Controlling your Printer ..............................................................................2-2

The Printer Interface ....................................................................................2-2

Active Interface Selection (Level-1 Menu) .................................................2-2

Auto Time Out Print and Ejection...............................................................2-3

Resolution....................................................................................................2-4

Raster Buffer Size........................................................................................2-4

Full Page Print Guarantee for Complicated Documents .............................2-5

Receive Buffer Memory Size ......................................................................2-5

Font Cache Protection .................................................................................2-5

Selecting Fonts and Symbol Sets ................................................................2-6

Prevention of White Page Ejection..............................................................2-8

Changing Orientation, Lines/Page and Columns/Line................................2-9

Auto Error – Override Printing....................................................................2-10

Darker/Lighter Print Quality .......................................................................2-10

Power Saving Mode ....................................................................................2-11

Chapter 3: Font Basics...............................................................................3-1

Font Basics .................................................................................................. 3-1

Font Basics .................................................................................................. 3-2

What is a font?.............................................................................................3-2

Font Sources ................................................................................................3-3

Resident Fonts .............................................................................................3-3

Bitmapped Fonts .......................................................................................... 3-3

Scalable Fonts..............................................................................................3-3

Font Configuration ...................................................................................... 3-4

Using Font Cards.........................................................................................3-5

Using Soft Fonts .......................................................................................... 3-5

Command Selection of Fonts ......................................................................3-6

A Few Words About Fonts ..........................................................................3-7

Portrait/Landscape Mode.............................................................................3-7

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Symbol Set ..................................................................................................3-8

Spacing ...................................................................................................... 3-8

Pitch ...................................................................................................... 3-8

Point Size.....................................................................................................3-9

Style ...................................................................................................... 3-9

Stroke Weight .............................................................................................. 3-9

Typeface ...................................................................................................... 3-10

Example of font selection:...........................................................................3-10

Chapter 4: HP LaserJet IV Emulation ..................................................... 4-1

HP LJ IV Emulation Mode..........................................................................4-2

Printer Commands ....................................................................................... 4-3

Print Job Master Commands ....................................................................... 4-3

Page Formatting Commands .......................................................................4-5

Cursor Positioning ....................................................................................... 4-11

Font Selection .............................................................................................. 4-12

Soft Fonts Management Commands ........................................................... 4-14

Raster Graphics............................................................................................4-15

Vector Graphics ...........................................................................................4-16

Graphics Image Manipulation ..................................................................... 4-17

Macros ......................................................................................................4-20

Miscellaneous ..............................................................................................4-22

HP-GL/2 Commands ................................................................................... 4-23

Chapter 5: Printable Areas .........................................................................5-1

Printable Area for Each Paper Size ..............................................................5-2

Appendix A: Symbol Sets ........................................................................... A-1

Symbol Sets ................................................................................................. A-2

Appendix B: Interfacing.............................................................................B-1

Parallel Interfacing.......................................................................................B-2

RS-232C Serial Interfacing .........................................................................B-4

Appendix C: LCD Window Display Messages .......................................... C-1

LCD Window Display Messages .................................................................C-2

Control Panel 1-1

Chapter 1

The Control Panel

1-2 Control Panel

The Control Panel

The front panel is your direct link with the printer. It provides you with information about the state of the printer through its indicator lights and message window, and gives you control over printer functions through its buttons.

Note:

1.With the exception of the ON-LINE button, all buttons function only when the printer is OFF-LINE (Ready lamp is off).

2.In order to select the functions indicated on the lower part of the buttons, you need to hold it in for more than two seconds.

Printer Status

The Message Window

Your printer has a two line display that gives detailed information on the state of the printer. It provides information, error conditions and malfunctions, and it is used when setting the menu. The Setup Guide contains a complete listing of messages as well as information about how to solve the most common problems.

Lamp Indications

Lamp Lamp on Flashing Lamp off

READY Indicates printer Indicates the following: Indicates the following: (Amber) ready to receive data Force printing triggered Off-line mode.

in ON-LINE mode. by FORM FEED button. Initializing.

Fonts/Menu/Demo printing Warming up. triggered by respective Error status. buttons. Image drum cleaning triggered by + and - buttons. In process of making image data from received data.

MANUAL Procesing Manual Requesting paper in Manual feed not selected. (Red) feed. Manual feed.

ATTENTION Indicates the following: Indicates the following: Normal status (Red) Toner Low. Request action from user.

Toner Sensor. Occurence of ERROR. Change Drum. Fuser Life.

DATA Data processing Receiving data from host. No data. (Amber)

Setting the Printer On and Off-line

Pressing the ON-LINE button switches the printer between the on-line (selected) and off-line (deselected) modes. When the printer is on-line (READY lamp on), it is ready to receive data and print. When the printer is off-line (READY lamp off), it cannot receive data. All other buttons can only be activated when the printer is off-line.

Resetting the Printer

Pressing the /Reset button for more than two seconds, while the printer is off-line, ends any printing operation and clears some error conditions. Data is retained in the buffer and the printer is returned on-line.

The printer can be reset to user default settings by holding the Reset button for more than two seconds when the printer is off-line. All temporary soft (downloaded) fonts/ macro data are deleted, the permanent soft (downloaded) fonts/macro data remain in the printer until the power is turned off.

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Manual Paper Feed and Paper Tray Selection

The TRAY TYPE sub-menu can be selected directly by pressing the TRAY TYPE button for less than two seconds, while in the off-line mode.You can select Tray Feed Mode and Manual Feed Mode using the menu selection procedure.

Tray 1 paper feed is the factory default setting.

You will see the following messages displayed in the window:

MANUAL FEED OFF* (or ON)

* indicates that this selection is the current default setting.

MENU 1

MENU 2

PAPER FEED TRAY1* (TRAY2 if 2nd paper tray installed)

(Press)

(FRONT FEEDER) (ENVELOPE FEEDER if envelope feeder installed)

* indicates that this selection is the current default setting.

MENU 1

MENU 2

(Press)

AUTO TRAY SWITCH OFF* (or ON)

* indicates that this selection is the current default setting.

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Front/Manual Paper Size and Envelope Feeder Paper Size Definition

The paper size sub-menu can be selected directly by holding the PAPER SIZE button for less than two seconds, while the printer is in the off-line mode. You can select the size of paper or envelope using the menu selection procedure.

You will see the following messages displayed in the message window:

FRONT/MANUAL A4 SIZE*

* indicates that this selection is the current default setting.

The sizes displayed are in the following order:

A5 SIZE A6 SIZE B5 SIZE COM-9 COM-10 MONARCH DL ENVELOPE C5 ENVELOPE C4 ENVELOPE LETTER EXECUTIVE LEGAL 14 LEGAL 13

ENVELOPE FEEDER (if feeder is installed) DL ENVELOPE*

* indicates that this selection is the current default setting.

The sizes displayed are in the following order:

C5 ENVELOPE LETTER EXECUTIVE LEGAL14 LEGAL13 A4 SIZE A5 SIZE A6 SIZE B5 SIZE COM-9 COM-10 MONARCH

Power Saving Definition

The POWER SAVE sub-menu can be selected directly by pressing the POWER SAVE button for more than two seconds while the printer is in the off-line mode. You can select the power saving definition using the menu selection procedure.

0 SEC is the factory default setting.

You will see the following message displayed in the message window:

POWER SAVING 0 SEC* (8 MIN or DISABLE)

* indicates that this selection is the current default setting.

Auto Error – Override Printing

During normal printing if the AUTO CONT INUE, in the Level-2 menu, is set to ON, if a software or data error occurs the printer will briefly display an error message, and after a few seconds continue printing.

If the AUTO CONTINUE parameter is set to OFF, the factory default, when an error is detected, the printer will stop printing. To resume printing the RECOVER button must be pressed.

Darker/Lighter Print Quality

During normal printing darker or lighter print quality can be acheived by using the DARKNESS CONTROL option in menu Level-2.

If you want darker print select +1 or +2 (darkest), if you want lighter print select -1 or

-2 (lightest).

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Maintenance Menu Items

The printer Maintenance Menu Mode can be entered by switching on the printer while holding the MENU1/Menu2 button. In this special mode, data received by the printer can be analysed on the printed page, which will be in the form of a HEX dump.

You can reset all Level-1 menu items to the factory default setting when user default settings become confused.

Also in this mode, the Image Drum life counter can be cleared when the Image Drum unit has been replaced with a new one.

Level-1 Menu Reset to factory default

1. Switch on the printer while holding down the MENU1/Menu2 button. You will see the message USR MNT (user maintenance) in the message window.

2. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button for less than two seconds to display the MENU RESET message.

3. Press the ENTER/Power Save button to display the message MENU /RESET'NG (resetting).

4. All the Level-1 menu items are now reset to the factory default setting, and the printer is returned to the normal on-line mode.

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Hex Dump Analysis

1. Switch on the printer while holding the MENU1/Menu2 button. The USER MNT (User Maintenance) message will be displayed in the window.

2. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button for less than two seconds twice to display HEX DUMP, after MENU RESET.

3. Press the ENTER/Power Save button, the printer now displays the ON-LINE/HEX DUMP message.

4. The printer will now print received data in HEX dump format.

5. To resume normal printing, switch off the printer, then switch it on again.

When the data sent to the printer reaches a full page, the printer will start printing. If the data does not contain a full page, it will be necessary to place the printer off-line and then press the Form Feed button to start printing.

Cleaning Page

When the analysis is finished, switch off the printer to exit the HEX dump mode.

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1. Press the /Recover and /Reset buttons together while the printer is in the off line mode.

2. The message DRUM CLEANING PAGE/MANUAL A4 will appear in the message window, MANUAL A4 SIZE REQUEST will scroll right to left.

3. Insert a blank page in the manual feed tray and press the Form Feed button.

4. The printer will process the blank page and at the same time remove any traces of toner from the image drum, after completion the printer will return to the ONLINE mode.

Drum Life Counter Reset

1. Switch on the printer while holding the MENU1/Menu2 button. USER MNT (user maintenance) will be displayed in the message window.

2. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button three times for less than two seconds. The DRUM CNT/RESET (drum counter reset) message, will be displayed

3. Press the ENTER/Power Save button, DRUM CNT/RESET'NG (resetting) will be displayed. After the counter has been reset, ON-LINE will be displayed in the message window. The printer is now ready to receive data in the normal way.

Operation Panel Disable

To prohibit change to any menu item via the operation panel, follow these

instructions:

1. Switch on the printer while holding down the MENU1/Menu2 button. USER MNT will be displayed in the message window.

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2. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button four times for less than two seconds. OP MENU/ ENABLE* (operation panel enable – factory default) will be displayed in the message window.

3. Press the be displayed in the message window.

4. Press the ENTER/Power Save button to select the disable parameter, only if you are sure, an asterisk (*), will appear next to your choice. Press the ON-LINE button the printer then displays the ON-LINE message, and is now ready to receive data in the normal way.

The MENU1/Menu2, TRAY TYPE/Print Fonts and PAPER SIZE/Print Menu buttons are no longer effective for changing the menu.

Operation Panel Enable

To re-enable the operation panel, follow these instructions:

1. Switch on the printer while holding down the MENU1/Menu2 button. USER MNT will be displayed in the message window.

2. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button four times for less than two seconds. OP MENU DISABLE* (operation panel disable) will be displayed in the message window.

/Reset button, OP MENU/DISABLE (operation panel disable), will

3. Press the displayed in the message window.

4. Press the ENTER/Power Save button to select the enable parameter, an asterisk (*), will appear next to your choice. Press the ON-LINE button the printer then displays the ON-LINE message, the menu items can then be changed in the normal way.

/Reset button, OP MENU/ENABLE (operation panel enable), will be

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Chapter 2

Controlling Your Printer

2-2 Controlling Your Printer

Controlling your Printer

The Printer Interface

The printer has a Centronics Parallel interface and a Serial RS-232C interface as standard. The menu parameter AUTO I/F is selected as the factory default setting. In this mode, the printer can receive data from both the parallel interface and the serial interface, by polling each port in turn. The active interface is selected from the Level1 Menu.

Active Interface Selection (Level-1 Menu)

AUTO I/F: Auto Interface Polling between parallel and RS-232C ports.

The printer checks both ports to see if data is being sent, once detected, the printer continues to receive data from this port.

The printer will recommence polling after having received no data for a period of time, defined in the AUTO EJECT menu in Level-2 menu.

AUTO EJECT POLLING START

OFF (factory default) 15 seconds 15 SEC 15 seconds 30 SEC 30 seconds 1 MIN 1 minute

Note: While AUTO I/F is selected, the I-PRIME signal on the parallel

interface is always ignored.

PARALLEL: Only Centronics parallel interface is supported. The I-PRIME signal

control is activated using the Level-2 menu.

RS-232C: Only RS-232C serial interface is supported. The XON/XOFF and

ROBUST XON flow controls are EFFECTIVE.

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It is possible to select one of the three interface modes via the Level-1 menu as follows:

1. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button for less than two seconds, when the printer is in the off-line mode. You will see the message PRINTER LANGUAGE in the message window.

2. Press the MENU1/Menu button ten times, for less than two seconds, the message HOST INTERFACE will appear in the message window, after PAGE LAYOUT2.

3. Press the ENTER/Power Save button to display the message HOST I/F/AUTO INTERFACE*, in the message window.

4. Press the

/Reset button until the required interface type is displayed,

PARALLEL, RS-232C, RS-422*, LOCALTALK* or OKI-HSP* (* if installed).

5. Press the ENTER/Power Save button to select the required interface type, an asterisk (*), will appear next to your choice.

6. Press the ON-LINE button, the printer will return to the on-line state, ready to receive data.

Auto Time Out Print and Ejection

In network environments, some systems do not send a full print job at once, but send data intermittently to the printer. In this case other users can not access the printer. However, some applications fail to complete a print run due to operational errors or malfunctions. You can select the time out period to overcome this problem via the AUTO EJECT item in the Level-2 menu. If the printer receives no data for more than the specified time the remaining data in the buffer will be printed and the page ejected automatically. If the AUTO EJECT option is set to off (factory default), the printer will not start printing automatically, you must press the FORM FEED/Print Demo button, for less than two seconds, when the printer is in the off-line mode.

1. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button for more than two seconds, when the printer is in the off-line mode. You will see the message PRINT MODE in the message window.

2. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button twice, for less than two seconds, the message AUTO OPERATION will appear in the message window.

3. Press the ENTER/Power Save button to display the message AUTOCONTINUE/ OFF*, in the message window.

4. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button, for less than two seconds, the message AUTO EJECT/OFF*, will appear in the message window.

5. Press the

/Reset button until the required parameter is displayed, 5 SECONDS

to 300 SECONDS.

6. Press the ENTER/Power Save button to select the required parameter, an asterisk (*), will appear next to your choice.

7. Press the ON-LINE button, the printer will return to the on-line state, ready to receive data.

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Resolution

Your printer utilises fine high resolution printing enabling it to produce printed output of two types.

600dpi (Factory Default) 300dpi

Raster Buffer Size

If the print image data is of a complicated nature, for example complex text or large graphics, it may be necessary to adjust the size of the Raster Buffer Size.

The options are:

AUTO (factory default, the printer automatically selects the size of the

180Kbytes 360Kbytes

1.08Mbytes (various sizes of memory buffer that are available) :

2.16Mbytes

FUL LETTER (full letter size page) FULL LEGAL (full legal size page) FULL A4 (full A4 size page)

Raster Buffer which is appropriate for the data being processed)

Note: Care must be taken when allocating memory, to avoid other memory size

errors, specifically when accessing Macro Data, Soft Font Data or High Resolution Graphics Data.

1. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button for more than two seconds, when the printer is in the off-line mode. You will see the message PRINT MODE in the message window.

2. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button once, for less than two seconds, the message MEMORY USAGE will appear in the message window.

3. Press the ENTER/Power Save button, for less than two seconds, the message RASTER BUFFER/AUTO will appear in the message window.

4. Press the

* When MEMORY OVERFLOW occurs, you must reduce this value.

When PRINT OVERRUN occurs, you must increase this value.

/Reset button until the required memory size* is displayed.

5. Press the ENTER/Power Save button to select the required memory size, an asterisk (*), will appear next to your choice.

6. Press the ON-LINE button, the printer will return to the on-line state, ready to receive data.

Full Page Print Guarantee for Complicated Documents

The printer generates high resolution bitmapped graphics of all the received data prior to printing. This process is faster than the actual mechanical printing process. However, if the document is too complicated, the printer may display the error, PRINT OVERRUN in the message window. This occurs because the printer processing speed could not match the paper feed speed. The solution is to simplify the document by reducing the formatted data, i.e. replace complicated graphics, reduce the number of typefaces, etc.

However, by defining the menu parameter RASTER BUFFER/FULL A4, in the Level-2 menu, you can guarantee to print a full page of A4, providing the optional memory board is installed. In this instance, the printer starts printing after a full A4 page of bitmapped data has been generated

Receive Buffer Memory Size

Your printer has 2Mbytes RAM as standard. This memory is used for various tasks, i.e. Receive Buffer, Raster Buffer, Macro Data Memory, Soft Font Down Line Load Memory and Print Buffer. The memory size allocation is automatically controlled, dynamically, according to the received data. Some users require to send all data to the printer at once, thus enabling the system to be used for another job. This is possible if you allocate more memory to the Receive Buffer. The maximum memory size allocation is 1Mbyte, using the RECEIVE BUFFER item in the Level-2 menu.

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The options are:

AUTO (factory default) 8Kbytes 20Kbytes 50Kbytes 100Kbytes 1Mbyte

Font Cache Protection

Scalable fonts are defined as a series of vectors, and as such cannot be directly printed. Therefore, when your print job requests a scalable font of a certain size, the printer must first convert (rasterize) this font into a form suitable for printing (bitmap).

Under normal circumstances this process has to be carried out every time the printer starts a job after having been reset (usually at the beginning of a print job).

You can reserve some of the printers memory area as a protected font cache. (This is a memory area not cleared by the reset command.) The size of this area can be increased incrementally in 100 Kbytes from the Level-2 menu FONT PROTECTION. The factory default is AUTO.

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You need not worry about a font overflowing the cache memory size; the font will still be rasterized even if the cache setting is too small. The only consequence is that on receiving the reset command, the part of the font outside the protected cache will be cleared and will have to be regenerated the next time the font is selected.

The following operations will clear the protected font cache memory area.

1. Turning the printer off.

2. Holding down the RESET button for more than two seconds.

62 Characters 192 Characters

Point Size (ASCII) (Roman-8)

8 6 KB 18 KB 10 8 KB 24 KB 12 10 KB 30 KB

3. Changing the memory size on the Protected Cache. The options are:

AUTO (factory default, the printer automatically allocates a portion of

the printers memory as a font cache). OFF 100Kbyte : (sets the size of the font cache)

1.4Mbyte

Selecting Fonts and Symbol Sets

You can define the font source from Resident (factory default), Optional Card and DLL Soft (down line loadable), using the FONT SOURCE item in the Level-1 menu. Before selecting these optional font sources, it is necessary to have previously installed them. If they have not been installed they will not appear in the message window.

You can choose the Font No. using the FONT No. item in the Level-1 menu. The font numbers can be obtained by using the Print Fonts button to produce a sample of all the available fonts and their ID numbers.

Note: The number can be found on the left side of the PRINT FONTS list and

also on the second line of the message window, in the FONT NO. item

I xxx in the resident fonts C xxxin the Font Card (if installed) S xxx in the downloaded soft fonts (if installed)

The font number can be looked for in the message window using the arrow buttons.

The symbol set can also be selected from the SYMBOL SET item in the Level-1 menu. There are 75 symbol sets available including, ECMA-94, PC-8, PC-850, etc. ROMAN-8 is the factory default. For a complete list the available symbol sets refer to Appendix A: Symbol Sets.

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1. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button for less than two seconds, when the printer is in the off-line mode. You will see the message PRINTER LANGUAGE in the message window.

2. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button seven times, for less than two seconds, the message FONTS & SYMBOLS will appear in the message window, after COPIES.

3. Press the ENTER/Power Save button to display the message FONT SOURCE/ RESIDENT* (factory default), in the message window.

4. Press the

/Reset button until the required font source is displayed.

5. Press the ENTER/Power Save button to select the required font source, an asterisk (*), will appear next to your choice.

6. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button for less than two seconds, the message FONT NO/I000* will be displayed in the message window.

7. Press the

/Reset button until the required font number is displayed.

8. Press the ENTER/Power Save button to select the required font number, an asterisk (*), will appear next to your choice.

If you are using fixed pitch scalable fonts you can set the required characters per inch (FONT PITCH) setting and the font height (FONT HEIGHT) setting by using the following instructions. If however, you have selected Bitmap rather than Scalable fonts neither of these messages will appear in the message window.

9. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button for less than two seconds FONT PITCH/

10.00CPI* (factory default) will be displayed in the message window.

10. Press the

/Reset button until the required characters per inch setting is

displayed.

11. Press the ENTER/Power Save button to select the required CPI setting, an asterisk (*), will appear next to your choice.

12. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button for less than two seconds FONT HEIGHT/

12.00* (factory default) will be displayed in the message window.

13. Press the

/Reset button until the required font height setting is displayed in

the message window.

14. Press the ENTER/Power Save button to select the required font height setting, an asterisk (*), will appear next to your choice.

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15. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button for less than two seconds, the message SYMBOL SET/ROMAN-8* (factory default), will be displayed in the message window.

16. Press the

/Reset button until the required symbol set is displayed.

17. Press the ENTER/Power Save button to select the required symbol set, an asterisk

(*), will appear next to your choice.

18. Press the ON-LINE button, the printer will return to the on-line state, ready to

receive data.

Prevention of White Page Ejection

Many applications send the FF (form feed) code to the printer before sending the print data, this action prints all data held in the printer buffer then ejects the page. This is especially important for network users.

Note: The FF code may cause extra white pages if there is no data in the

printer buffer.

Prevention of blank page ejection can be defined by the item WHITE PAGE SKIP in the Level-1 menu. The factory default is OFF. When ON is set the printer will ignore the FF code only when DATA is not displayed in the message window, and there is no data in the printer.

1. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button for less than two seconds, when the printer is in

the off-line mode. You will see the message PRINTER LANGUAGE in the message window.

2. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button eight times, for less than two seconds, until the

message PAGE LAYOUT1 is displayed in the message window, after FONTS & SYMBOLS.

3. Press the ENTER/Power Save, to display the message A4 PRINT WIDTH/78

COLUMN in the message window.

4. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button once for less than two seconds, the message

WHITE PAGE SKIP /OFF* will appear in the message window.

5. Press the

/Reset button for less than two seconds, the message WHITE PAGE

SKIP/ON will appear in the message window.

6. Press the ENTER/Power Save button to select this option, an asterisk (*), will

appear next to your choice.

7. Press the ON-LINE button, the printer will return to the on-line state, ready to

receive data.

Changing Orientation, Lines/Page and Columns/Line

The printer is capable of changing orientation from portrait to landscape. You can define the orientation using the item ORIENT (orientation) in the Level-1 menu. When you change the orientation ensure that the margins and page lengths have been changed both in the software application and the printer menu.

The factory default settings are as follows:

ORIENT (orientation): PORTRT (portrait) LINES/PG (lines per page): 64 LNS (64 lines)

1. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button for less than two seconds, when the printer is in the off-line mode. You will see the message PRINTER LANGUAGE in the message window.

2. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button nine times, for less than two seconds, until the message PAGE LAYOUT2 is displayed in the message window, after PAGE LAYOUT1.

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3. Press the ENTER/Power Save button, to display the message ORIENTATION/ PORTRAIT* in the message window.

4. If you want to print in landscape mode press the

/Reset button for less than two

seconds, the message ORIENTATION/LANDSCAPE will appear in the message window.

5. Press the ENTER/Power Save button to select this option, an asterisk (*), will appear next to your choice.

6. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button for less than two seconds, to display the message LINES PER PAGE/64LINES* in the message window.

7. If you want to change the number of lines press the

/Reset button for less than two seconds, the number of lines per page will appear in the message window in

the following sequence, 5, ...64, .......128.

8. Press the ENTER/Power Save button to select the required number, an asterisk (*), will appear next to your choice.

9. Press the ON-LINE button, the printer will return to the on-line state, ready to receive data.

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Auto Error – Override Printing

During normal printing if the AUTO CONTINUE, in the Level-2 menu, is set to ON, if a software or data error occurs the printer will briefly display an error message, and after a few seconds continue printing.

If the AUTO CONTINUE parameter is set to OFF, the factory default, when an error is detected, the printer will stop printing. To resume printing the RECOVER button must be pressed.

1. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button for more than two seconds, while the printer is off-line, the message PRINT MODE will appear in the message window.

2. Pres the MENU1/Menu2 button twice, the message AUTO OPERATION will appear in the message window.

3. Press ENTER/Power Save button to display the message AUTO CONTINUE / OFF*.

4. Press the

5. Press the ENTER/Power Save button to select this parameter, an asterisk, (*), will appear next to your choice.

6. Press the ON-LINE button to exit the menu mode and return the printer to its normal on-line state, ready to print.

Darker/Lighter Print Quality

During normal printing darker or lighter print quality can be acheived by using the DARKNESS CONTROL option in menu Level-2.

If you want darker print select +1 or +2 (darkest), if you want lighter print select -1 or

-2 (lightest).

1. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button for more than two seconds, while the printer is off-line, the message PRINT MODE will appear in the message window.

2. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button three times for less than two seconds, the message DARKNESS CONTROL, will appear, after AUTO OPERATION.

3. Press ENTER/Power Save button to display the message DARKNESS/0* (factory default).

/Reset button to display the message AUTOCONTINUE/ON.

4. Press the sequence, 0, +1, +2, -2, -1.

5. Press the ENTER/Power Save button to select the appropriate parameter, an asterisk, (*), will appear next to your choice.

6. Press the ON-LINE button to exit the menu mode and return the printer to its normal on-line state, ready to print.

/Reset button to step through available darkness settings in the

Power Saving Mode

If, during the normal printing operation no data is received by the printer for a period of time, the printer will cut the heating to the fusing unit. In power saving mode, the power consumption and fan acoustic noise will be greatly reduced. However, the printer will require a warming up period, prior to restarting the printing cycle.

1. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button for more than two seconds, while the printer is off-line, the message PRINT MODE will appear in the message window.

2. Press the MENU1/Menu2 button four times for less than two seconds, the message POWER SAVING, will appear, after DARKNESS CONTROL.

3. Press ENTER/Power Save button to display the message POWER SAVING/0 SEC* (factory default).

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4. Press the

/Reset button to step through available settings in the sequence 0

SEC, 8MIN, DISABLE.

DISABLE prohibits power saving mode completely, 0 SEC or 8 MIN reduces the fan rotation speed and switches off the fuser unit, when no data has been received for more than the specified time.

5. Press the ENTER/Power Save button to select the appropriate parameter, an asterisk, (*), will appear next to your choice.

DISABLE should be used if you are printing frequently, the printer is always ready to print, and does not need to warm up.

0 SEC or 8 MIN should be used if printing requirements are very low, the printer will switch off the fuser unit if no data is received for eight minutes, a warm up period will be required prior to recommencement of printing.

6. Press the ON-LINE button to exit the menu mode and return the printer to its normal on-line state, ready to print.

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Chapter 3

Font Basics

3-2 Font Basics

Font Basics

What is a font?

Part of the reason that your printer is so versatile lies in the large number of fonts available. A full complement of resident fonts serves many printing needs, and you can add to your printer’s range with font cards or soft fonts supplied by other font vendors. When these fonts are used correctly, they can greatly enhance the quality of your work. While a complete understanding of fonts, typefaces and their characteristics is not necessary for good document preparation, some knowledge can go a long way towards making you proficient in their use.

A font is a collection of printing characteristics, all of which combine to produce a distinctive style of print. Here are the characteristics, presented in descending order of priority, that make up each of the fonts.

Note: Your printer emulates the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet Series IV printer. Because of this, we are using Hewlett-Packard’s terminology here to describe the method for specifying laser fonts. However, some typesetters use somewhat different terms and definitions when specifying fonts.

Symbol set: In addition to a standard group of alphanumeric characters, each

symbol set contains characters and symbols used for special purposes. The printer features special sets for technical, legal and foreign language uses. Each font uses standard symbols, plus symbols from one or more of these sets.

Spacing: Some fonts have fixed spacing, where the space assigned to each

character is uniform in width. Other fonts are proportionally spaced, with narrow characters like (i) given less horizontal space than wide characters like (w).

Pitch: Only used with fixed space fonts, pitch is a measure of character

width, representing the number of characters per inch (cpi). The larger the number of characters per inch, the smaller the character is.

Height: The height of the characters in a font is expressed in points. There

are 72 points to an inch. This measure, often called font size, is used primarily with proportional fonts.

Style: The style of a font can be either upright or italic (slant). Stroke weight: Stroke weight refers to the thickness of the lines in a font. Typeface: The typeface of a font determines the shape of the strokes that

make up each character or symbol. Typefaces have standard names like Courier and Gothic. This is the lowest priority whenselecting a font.

Orientation: The way the text is printed on the page. Portrait orientation is

normal lengthwise printing while landscape printing appears sideways on a page.

Font Sources

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Each of the fonts is defined by the values assigned to these characteristics. For example, the factory default setting has the following values, in priority order:

Symbol Set: Roman-8 Highest Priority Spacing: Fixed Pitch: 10 CPI Height: 12 Points Style: Upright Stroke weight: Medium Typeface: Courier Resolution: 600 dpi Location: Resident Orientation: Portrait Lowest Priority

There are three types of font that can be used with your printer. Resident fonts (which come with your printer), optional Oki font cards and soft fonts, which are down loaded from your computer (available from font vendors).

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Resident Fonts

Your printer supports all the fonts of HP LJ IV compatible bitmapped fonts and scalable fonts.

Bitmapped Fonts

The font face of the character is directly stored in the font memory without any font manipulation such as scaling, rotation or mirror reflecting. This type of font cannot be modified. Landscape fonts are obtained by 90° rotation of the portrait fonts within the printer controller.

Scalable Fonts

The original outline of the character is stored in vector format in the font memory; it can be scaled to any size, rotated to any angle, and mirror images can be generated.

When you select a scalable font, the printer automatically generates a bitmapped version by processing from the original outline, vector fonts data, before starting the print.

This takes processing time. In order to keep a high printing speed, all the generated fonts are stored in cache memory. When the same fonts are printed again, the font data is directly loaded from this cache memory.

Note: If a document contains various different fonts, printer speed can be

increased by adding the optional expansion memory thereby increasing the cache memory size.

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Font Configuration

Your printer contains 45 resident scaleable typefaces compatible with the HP LaserJet IV, as follows:

FONT SPACING

Albertus Medium.....................................................Proportional

Albertus Extra Bold ................................................. Proportional

Antique Olive Upright Medium .............................. Proportional

Antique Olive Upright Bold ....................................Proportional

Antique Olive Italic Medium ...................................Proportional

Clarendon Condensed.............................................. Proportional

Coronet .................................................................... Proportional

Courier Upright Medium......................................... Fixed

Courier Upright Bold............................................... Fixed

Courier Italic Medium .............................................Fixed

Courier Italic Bold ................................................... Fixed

Garamond Antiqua ..................................................Proportional

Garamond Halbfett .................................................. Proportional

Garamond Kursiv ....................................................Proportional

Garamond Kursiv Halbfett ......................................Proportional

Letter Gothic Upright Medium................................Fixed

Letter Gothic Upright Bold .....................................Fixed

Letter Gothic Italic Medium .................................... Fixed

Marigold ..................................................................Proportional

CG Omega Upright Medium ................................... Proportional

CG Omega Upright Bold.........................................Proportional

CG Omega Italic Medium .......................................Proportional

CG Omega Italic Bold ............................................. Proportional

CG Times Upright Medium ....................................Proportional

CG Times Upright Bold ..........................................Proportional

CG Times Italic Medium.........................................Proportional

CG Times Italic Bold ..............................................Proportional

Univers Upright Medium ........................................Proportional

Univers Upright Bold .............................................. Proportional

Univers Italic Medium.............................................Proportional

Univers Italic Bold ..................................................Proportional

Univers Condensed Upright Medium...................... Proportional

Univers Condensed Upright Bold ...........................Proportional

Univers Condensed Italic Medium .......................... Proportional

Univers Condensed Italic Bold................................Proportional

Arial Upright Medium ............................................. Proportional

Arial Upright Bold...................................................Proportional

Arial Italic Medium .................................................Proportional

Arial Italic Bold ....................................................... Proportional

Times New Upright Medium ...................................Proportional

Times New Upright Bold ........................................ Proportional

Times New Italic Medium.......................................Proportional

Times New Italic Bold .............................................Proportional

Wingdings................................................................Proportional

Symbol.....................................................................Proportional

Using Font Cards

To obtain additional ready-made fonts, you can purchase the special font cards available for your printer. Each card is designed to provide fonts needed for a special purpose. The fonts in each card family are designed to be used together, to provide a working environment for legal, secretarial, publications and other work situations.

Font cards work much the same as resident fonts. Selection is greatly simplified if the software you are using contains a driver that provides immediate access to the card fonts. If a suitable driver is not available, you may be able to use a driver for the HP LaserJet Series IV that includes the cartridge fonts you want to use. When you install a font card, its fonts will be listed on the font sample printout, along with their ID numbers. If you change the Font Source menu selection to Card, the Font Select item will list the card font ID numbers, so you can easily select them using the menu.

Note: Font cards for the Oki OL400, 410, 800 and 810 series printers cannot

be used in this printer.

Using Soft Fonts

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Your printer also accepts downloadable bitmapped soft fonts in the Hewlett-Packard format. This means that you have access to a wide range of font creation packages such as Bitstream

Fontware™. Today, the range of soft fonts includes most of the popular text fonts and a wide variety of headline styles. Although they are slightly less accessible and somewhat more difficult to use than resident and card fonts, soft fonts can round out your typeface library.

Use of soft fonts is greatly simplified if your software supports this feature. If it does not, you may still be able to use soft fonts by resorting to some of the utilities that are available for this purpose. These range from simple public domain programs that load fonts to the printer (access the fonts with a printer command) to full-feature coresident printer control systems.

After you have downloaded soft fonts to the printer and made them permanent, they will appear on the font sample printout, along with their ID numbers. If you change the FONT SOURCE menu selection to DOWNLOADED, the FONT No. item will list the soft font ID numbers, so you can easily select them using them using the menu.

When you are using soft fonts, you should be aware that they must be loaded into the printer, which takes time and consumes available memory. This means that documents may take longer to print, and certain combinations, particularly in conjunction with graphics, may not be possible. Large type fonts take up large amounts of memory. All of the characters in the set must be loaded into the printer, even if only a few are actually used. Each character contains information on all of the pixels in a 300 x 300 dpi grid. For 72 point type (1-inch high), that is quite a lot of bytes!

If you often use soft fonts, especially large point sizes, the optional memory expansion board should, ideally, be utilised.

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Command Selection of Fonts

Selection of a font by printer commands is quite simple if the font (resident, card or downloaded) is available. Each font has an “escape sequence”, a string of characters beginning with the escape character (decimal 27). The sequence actually specifies all of the basic characteristics of the font.

A Few Words About Fonts

The priority list is stored in the printer. When a font is selected the printer checks the complete font priority list to ensure that the selected font is among those available (i.e. a resident font, IC-Card font or soft font).

If the most recent priority list does not describe any available font, the printer compares the font with the priority list starting at the highest level of priority. The printer scans the current characteristics and compares them with the characteristics defined by the user, starting with the highest level of priority.

If the printer discovers an unavailable font which is requested by the user, it automatically changes to the nearest font which is currently available.

Example:

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Symbol Set Roman-8 ESC(8U Spacing Fixed ESC(s0P Pitch 10 ESC(s10H Height 12 point ESC(s12V Style Upright ESC(s0S Stroke Weight Normal ESC(s0B Type Face Courier ESC(s3T Location Resident ESC( Orientation Portrait ESC&l0O

Portrait/Landscape Mode

ESC&l #O

This escape sequence selects the print orientation.

# can have the following values:

0 Portrait (default) 1 Landscape 2 Reverse Portrait 3 Reverse Landscape

Default Resident Font Characteristics:

The printer prints either from left to right across the width of the paper (Portrait mode) or along the length of the paper (Landscape mode).

This sequence must be sent at the beginning of the relevant page. Changing the print orientation causes the page length, top margin, text length, left margin, right margin, HMI and VMI to default to their original values. If the requested orientation is the same as the current orientation, this command will be ignored.

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Symbol Set

ESC(ID

Each symbol set contains characters and symbols which are used for specific purposes. The printer supports special character sets for technical, legal and foreign language purposes and additional character sets for graphics. Each font uses standard symbols, as well as symbols from one or more of these sets.

Examples:

Symbol Set ID

Roman-8 8U ECMA-94 Latin 10N PC-8 (USA) 10U PC-8 DAN/NOR 11U UNITED KINGDOM 1E IRV 2U US ASCII 0U

Spacing

Pitch

ESC(s#P

This ESC sequence determines the spacing of the printed document. # may have one of the following values:

Value Spacing

0 Fixed Spacing 1 Proportional Spacing

-1 Compressed Proportional Spacing

Some fonts have fixed spacing, i.e. the amount of space allotted to each character is uniform. Other fonts are proportionally spaced i.e. narrow characters such as i are allowed less horizontal space than wide characters, such as w.

ESC(s#H

This ESC sequence determines the print pitch. # represents the pitch in characters per inch (cpi). For example:

10 cpi ESC(s10H

16.66 cpi ESC(s16.66H

This command is used only with fonts of fixed spacing. The pitch is the measure of the character width, i.e. it represents the number of characters per inch (cpi). The larger the number of characters per inch, the smaller the character.

A field value of up to two decimal places is acceptable here.

Point Size

Style

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ESC(s#V

This ESC sequence determines the primary font height. # represents the height. For example:

7 point ESC(s7V 12 point ESC(s12V

14.4 point ESC(s14.4V

The height of the character in a font is expressed in points. There are 72 points in one inch. This measurement is referred to as the Font Size, and is used primarily in relation to proportional fonts.

Font size for scalable outline fonts are also defined by this sequence.

Stroke Weight

ESC(s#S

This ESC sequence is used to turn italics ON and OFF. # represents the following values, for example:

Value Style

0 Italics OFF (Upright) 1 Italics ON 4 Condensed 5 Condensed Italic

8 Compressed or extra condensed 24 Expanded 32 Outline 64 Inline

128 Shadowed 160 Outline shadowed

ESC(s#B

This ESC sequence determines the stroke weight. # represents the following values. For example:

Value Typeface

-1 to -7 Light 0 Medium 1 to 7 Bold

The stroke weight (light, medium or bold) refers to the thickness of lines in a font.

-7 Ultra light -3 Light 0 Normal

+3 Bold +7 Ultra Bold

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Typeface

ESC(s#T

This ESC sequence determines the typeface. # represents the following values. For example:

Value Typeface

0 Line Printer 2 Elite 3 Courier 4 Swiss (similar to Helvetica 5 Dutch (similar to Times

)

Roman/CG Times) 6 Gothic 8 Prestige 52 Univers

The typeface of a font determines the shape of the strokes that make up each character or symbol.

Example of font selection:

Escape sequence:

ESC&l0O ESC(8U ESC(s 0p 10h 12v 0s 0b 3T

a b c

d e f

g h

a Orientation : Portrait b Symbol Set : Roman-8 c Spacing : Fixed d Pitch : 10 CPI e Point Size : 12 point f Style : Upright g Stroke weight : Normal h Typeface : Courier

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‘c - h’ are the Fonts Parameter Definition Command Group.

Escape sequences with the same beginning characters can be combined. To do this, change the final letter of the first sequence from upper case to lower case and omit the common characters. For example, combining proportional spacing, ESC(s1P, with 10 point character height, ESC(s10V , results in the following:

ESC(s1p10V

Keep in mind that there should be only one upper case letter in a combined sequence, and that upper case letters must come at the end of the sequence. Also remember that the commands are executed in the order in which they are given.

The following sample commands include the escape sequences that specify each font’s characteristics. In some cases it is not necessary to change fonts, but shorten the specifications. Firstly, make sure that the new font you have requested (bold or italic, for example) is available. Secondly, remember that a higher priority font characteristic will override a lower priority one. In both cases, an error in specifying a font may give unexpected results.

Font Command Sequence

Courier 10 cpi (default) ESC&l0O ESC(8U ESC(s0p10h12v0s0b3T Courier bold 10 cpi ESC&l0O ESC(8U ESC(s0p10h12v0s3b3T Courier italic 10 cpi ESC&l0O ESC(8U ESC(s0p10h12v1s0b3T Courier italic bold 10 cpi ESC&l0O ESC(8U ESC(s0p10h12v1s3b3T Line Printer 16.6 cpi ESC&l0O ESC(8U ESC(s0p16.66h8.5v0s0b0T

CG Times 12 cpi ESC&l0O ESC(8U ESC(s1p10v0s0b4101T CG Times 12 cpi bold ESC&l0O ESC(8U ESC(s1p10v0s3b4101T CG Times 12 cpi italic ESC&l0O ESC(8U ESC(s1p10v1s 0b4101T CG Times bold 14.4 point ESC&l0O ESC(8U ESC(s1p10v0s3b4101T

Univers 10 point ESC&l0O ESC(8U ESC(s1p10v0s0bt2 Univers bold 10 point ESC&l0O ESC(8U ESC(s1p10v0s3bt2 Univers italic 10 point ESC&l0O ESC(8U ESC(s1p10v1s0bt2 Univers 8 point ESC&l0O ESC(8U ESC(s1p10v1s3bt2

Note: The above fonts can be printed in landscape mode, you must place

the landscape orientation command at the beginning of the sequence instead of the portrait command, as follows:

ESC&l0O to ESC&l1O

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Chapter 4

HP LaserJet IV Emulation

4-2 HP LaserJet IV Emulation

HP LJ IV Emulation Mode

The HP LJ IV Emulation Mode supports PCL-5e (Printer Control Language). It also supports Oki’s unique features.

This has been developed from word processing, document processing and desk-toppublishing applications. It is mainly used for managing documents. The commands in this area are almost all made up of the ESC (decimal 27) sequence.

Your printer offers a host of features, and to make the most of its printing capabilities you are recommended to choose the drivers which allow you to utilise theses features.

If your software contains the appropriate drivers you may never need to use printer commands. Occasionally, it may be useful to change certain settings or features while you are using software which does not directly support your printer.

There are several ways to send commands to your printer. The easiest way is to use a programming language such as BASIC to send them directly to your printer as character strings. If you use this method, you will have to send all the commands before starting the application.

Note: Many software packages will cancel printer settings by sending a reset

command to the printer prior to printing. If your software does this and does not give you the option of changing the initialization string , you will be unable to pre-set the printer.

Another way of using printer commands is to embed them directly in the text that you are printing or send them to the printer through some software function. The approach you take will depend on the specific capabilities of your software. If you wish to enter commands in this way then you should consult your software manual.

The following pages list the printer commands in ASCII, Decimal and Hexadecimal format, i.e.

ESCE ..............................ASCII

027 069..........................Decimal

1B 45 .............................Hexadecimal

Printer Commands

Print Job Master Commands

Theses commands are usually sent to your printer before the print job is started. They are used to define the default environment, such as the number of copies left and top offset for filling. (For more information refer to the HP LaserJet IV manual).

(a) Reset

ESCE 027 069 1B 45

This command restores the user default values and deletes all temporary fonts and macros and then prints all the remaining data in the printer.

(b) Number of copies

ESC&l#X # = Number of copies (1 to 99) 027 038 108 # 088 (120) (Default value = 1) 1B 26 2C # 58 (78)

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This command designates the number of copies. The command should be made before closing the page and will affect subsequent pages.

ESC/m#S # = Number of copies 027 047 109 # 183 (115) (1 to 99 including original page) 1B 2F 6D # 53 (73) (Default = Off)

This command starts the printer printing multicopies of the current page until the printer receives the Partial Multicopies Stop Command

(d) Multicopies Stop (Oki Command)

ESC/mE 027 047 109 069 (101) 1B 2F 6D 45 (65)

This command stops the multicopies printing.

Note: A single document of up to eight pages in length can be copied up to 99

times. # contains the number of copies. The pages that are to be copied must be enclosed by a start and stop command.

(e) Copy Mark Print with page number (Oki Command)

ESC/m#M # = 0 no mark 027 047 109 # 077 (109) # = 1 COPY and running number is 1B 2F 6D # 4D (6D) printed.

If required the word COPY and the running number can be printed on the copies.

On the first page, nothing will be printed. COPYxx appears in the upper right corner (xx = 01 - 99 from the second page onwards).

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For example: to print 4 multicopies – with copy marks – of one document:

ESCE ESC/m1M ESC/m4S

print text page 1 print text page 2 print text page 3

ESC/mE

ESC/m0M

Example:

Text 1

Text 2

Text 3

Text 1

Text 2

Text 3

Text 1

Text 2

Text 3

Text 1

Text 2

Text 3

Original Set Copy-1 Set Copy-2 Set Copy-3 Set

Page Formatting Commands

These commands are sometimes sent before each page of data to define the paper input source, the paper size, orientation and the margins.

Once these commands have been received they will remain in operation until the next set of commands are received.

(a) Paper Input

ESC&l#H # = 0 To print the current page 027 038 108 # 072 (104) and retain the current 1B 26 6C # 48 (68) input source.

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# = 1 To feed paper from the upper

tray.

# = 2 To feed paper from the manual

feed.

# = 3 To feed an envelope from the

manual feed.

# = 4 To feed paper from the lower

tray.

# = 6 To feed paper from the multi

media paper feeder.

(b) Paper/Envelope Size

ESC&l#A # = 26 A4 Paper 027 038 108 # 065 (97) # = 25 A5 Paper 1B 26 6C # 41 (61) # = 24 A6 Paper

# = 100 B5 Paper # = 1 Executive Paper # = 2 Letter Paper # = 3 Legal Paper 14 # = 9 Legal Paper 13 # = 80 Monarch Envelope # = 81 COM-10 Envelope # = 90 DL Envelope # = 91 C5 Envelope

(Default = 26 A4 Paper)

This command designates the paper/envelope size. It is also possible to select paper sizes from the operation panel manual selection.

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ESC&l#P # = Number of lines per page. 027 038 108 # 080 (112) (Default = 64) 1B 26 6C # 50 (70)

This command designates the logical page length in lines at the current line space pitch.

Page length is set by the number of lines. So if you have an 11

¦3 inch page set at 6 lines inch, the page length would be 70 lines. (Length of page in inches x current lpi setting). A page length of 64 lines is the default setting of the printer . To set the page length at 93 lines, (11

/3 inch paper x 8 lpi) insert 93 as a value of # and this is the

command

ESC&l93P

Maximum Page Length Values

Paper Size Portrait Landscape

6 lpi 8 lpi 6 lpi 8 lpi

A4 70 93 49 60 A5 49 66 34 45 B5 69 80 42 57 A6 34 45 19 25 LETTER 66 88 51 68 LEGAL 84 112 51 68 EXECUTIVE 60 80 43 58

If the printer is in the manual feed mode the paper size is set by the control panel and this command is ignored. The command is also ignored if the size requested is outside the allowable range. If the paper size selected is one inch the printer will not perform an automatic skip over perforation. If the paper size selected is

/2 inch the top margin

is ignored as well.

(d) Orientation

ESC&l#O # = 0 Portrait 027 038 108 # 79 (111) # = 1 Landscape 1B 26 6C # 4F (6F) # = 2 Reverse Portrait

# = 3 Reverse Landscape

(Default=Portrait)

This command designates the printing directions on a physical page. It controls the printing direction across the whole page. Using this command does not mean that it is possible to print in multiple directions on any page. By setting the page length, the top margin, the text length, left and right margins, horizontal motion index (HMI) and vertical motion index (VMI) as defaults you will automatically disable the automatic macro overlay. All the data received prior to this command will be printed and a form feed and carriage return executed.

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(e) Print Direction

ESC&a#P # = 0 Portrait 027 038 097 # 08 70 (112) # = 90 90° Rotation in an anti - 1B 26 61 # 50 (90) clockwise direction.

# = 180 180° Rotation in an anti-

clockwise direction.

# = 270 270° Rotation in an anti-

clockwise direction.

This command will rotate everything that is printed subsequently. The new print direction (which is set in 90°

increments in relation to the logical page) will continue

until a new command is sent to the printer.

(f) TEXT Length Setting

ES&l#F # = Number of lines 027 038 108 # 070 (102) 1B 26 6C # 46 (66)

This command designates the number of lines in the current line feed pitch. If you wanted to print 55 lines on the page, the command would be: ESC&l55F

(g) Left Margin Setting

ESC&a#L # = Column number 027 038 097 # 076 (108) (Default = 0) 1B 26 61 # 4C (6C)

This command sets the left margin in the column at the current (HMI) to the left edge of the text area.

To set the left margin column to 10 substitute 10 for the # in the left -hand margin command above:

(h) Right Margin Setting

ESC&a#M # = Column number 027 038 097 # 077 (109) 1B 26 61 # 40 (60)

This command sets the right margin in the column number at the current HMI to the right edge of the text area.

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The same can be done for the right margin. Remember the right margin cannot be less than the left margin. The combination command which sets both left and right margins at the same time is

ESC&a10l65M

Top

margin

Text

length

Bottom Margin

Left margin

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Right margin

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2345678901234567890

TEXT

Page Width

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Page length

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(i) Clear Horizontal Margin

ESC9 027 057 1B 39

This command resets the right and left margins to the logical page right and logical page left respectively.

(j) Perforation Skip

ESC&l#L # = 0 Disable 027 038 108 # 076 (108) # = 1 Enable 1B 26 6C # 4C (6C) (Default = Enable)

When enable is set, the perforation area (from the bottom margin on the current page to the top margin on the next page) is automatically skipped at the bottom of the length of text. If a fine line feed runs past the bottom margin given in the text length command, the ESC&l1L command will allow the printer to automatically advance to the start of the text at the top of the next page, ejecting the current page from the printer.

The command, ESC&l0L will disable this feature.

Note: This command will interfere with any page length formatting that is

controlled by any software.

(k) Horizontal Motion Index (HMI)

ESC&k#H # = number of 027 038 107 # 072 (104) (Default = 12) 1B 26 6B # 4B (68)

This command designates the width of the columns.

10 CPI 12 HMI HMI = 12 CPI 10 HMI

120 CPI

15 CPI 8 HMI 20 CPI 6 HMI

inch increments

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(l) Vertical Motion Index (VMI)

ESC&l#C # = number of

/48 inch increments

027 038 108 # 067 (99) for line pitch 1B 26 6C # 43 (63) (Default = 8 (6LPI))

This command designates the height of the line pitch.

3 LPI 16 VMI VMI = 4 LPI 12 VMI

48 LP

6 LPI 8 VMI 8 LPI 6 VMI

(m) Line Spacing Command

ESC&l#D # = 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 8, 12, 16, 24 and 48 027 038 108 # 068 (100) (Other values are ignored) 1B 26 6C # 44 (64) (Default = 6)

This command designates the number of lines printed per inch (LPI). When this command is received during the formatting of a page, the current page formatting is stopped automatically and a form feed is performed, followed by a carriage return. However, the printer defaults to slightly different settings. Left and right margin defaults are 0.25 inch but top and bottom defaults are 0.2 inch.

The page formatting commands lets you change the margins. You must remember that these page formatting commands do not conflict with the software that you are using. The problem is that most packages have their own page formatting included as part of the program, sending additional codes to the printer (such as a skip over perforation command) can result in irregular page breaks.

Cursor Positioning

The cursor identifies the position where a command begins laying out page data. The cursor can be moved anywhere on the logical page.

(a) Horizontal Column Positioning

This command moves the cursor to an absolute column on the same line. The column width is defined by the current HMI # field with a + sign indicates the right direction relatively from the current position, - sign indicates the left direction.

(b) Horizontal Decipoints Positioning

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ESC&a#C # = Number of columns 027 038 097 # 067 (99) 1B 26 61 # 43 (63)

ESC&a#H # =

Number of Decipoints (1/

027 038 097 # 072 (104) 1B 26 61 # 48 (68)

720

inch)

This command moves the cursor to an absolute decipoints position horizontally.

ESC*p#X # = Number of dots (

300

inch)

027 042 112 # 088 (120) 1B 2A 70 # 58 (78)

This command moves the cursor to an absolute dot position (

DPI horizontally).

300

(d) Vertical Rows Positioning

ESC&a#R # = Number of rows 027 038 097 # 082 (114) 1B 26 61 # 52 (72)

This command moves the cursor to an absolute rows position in the same column. # field with the + sign indicates the downwards direction from the current line, - sign indicates the upwards direction.

(e) Vertical Decipoints Positioning

ESC&a#V # = Number of decipoints (

720

inch)

027 038 097 # 086 (118) 1B 26 61 # 56 (76)

This command moves the cursor to an absolute decipoints line position vertically.

(f) Vertical Dots Positioning

ESC*p#Y # = Number of dots ( 027 042 112 # 089 (121) 1B 2A 70 # 59 (79)

This command moves the cursor to a relative dot position vertically.

300

inch)

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(g) Half Line Feed

ESC= 027 061 1B 3D

This command moves the cursor down one half of the current line spacing vertically in the same column position.

(h) Line Termination

ESC&k#G # = 027 038 107 # 071 (103) # = 1B 26 6B # 47 (67) # =

This command designates how the printer interprets CR, LF and FF control codes.

(i) Push/Pop Cursor Positioning

ESC&f#S # = 0 Push (Store the cursor position) 027 038 102 # 083 (115) # = 1 Pop (Recall the cursor position) 1B 26 66 # 53 (73) (Default = 0)

0CR➧CR;LF➧LF;FF➧FF 1CR➧CR/LF;LF➧LF;FF➧FF 2CR➧CR;LF➧CR/LF;FF➧CR/FF

# =

3CR➧CR/LF;LF➧CR/LF;FF➧CR/FF

Font Selection

This command allows the current cursor position to be stored and the last cursor position to be recalled from the stack.

A font is defined by a symbol set, spacing, height, pitch, style, stroke weight and typeface.

In the printer there are three font data sources: internal resident fonts, optional card fonts and downloadable soft fonts.

Your printer is capable of using two fonts at the same time. It does this by making one font primary and the other secondary. To use a secondary font it is necessary to change one character of the command line.

( Left parenthesis indicates the primary font ) Right parenthesis indicates the secondary font

By changing the left parenthesis ( ( ) to the right parenthesis ( ) ) in the font related commands you will then be referring to the secondary font.

(a)Primary Symbol Set For a list of Symbol Sets and their ASCII escape code refer to App A p.1–2.

(b) Primary Spacing

ESC(s#P # = 0 Fixed Spacing 027 040 115 # 080 (112) # = 1 Proportional spacing 1B 28 73 # 50 (90) # =-1 Condensed proportional

Spacing (Default = 0)

This command specifies inter-character spacing.

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ESC(s#H # = Number of Characters per inch . 027 040 115 # 072 (104) (Default = 10 (10CPI)) 1B 28 73 # 48 (68)

This command designates the number of fixed space characters per inch horizontally (16.66 CPI for line printing with fixed spacing Fonts: ESC(s16.66H).

(d) Primary Height

ESC( s # V (Default = 12) 027 040 115 # 086 (118) 1B 28 73 # 56 (76)

This command designates the character point size. One point is

¦72 inch. For a scalable

font the point size ranges from 0.25 to 999.75 in increments of 0.25 points.

(e) Primary Font

ESC ( s # S # = 0 Upright 027 040 115 # 083 (115) # = 1 Italic 1B 28 73 # 53 (73)

This command designates the posture width and structure of the font.

(f) Primary Font Stroke Weight

ESC(s#B # = -3 Light 027 040 115 # 066 (98) # = -2 1B 28 73 # 42 (62) # = -1

# = 0 Normal # = 1 # = 2 # = 3 Bold

This command designates the thickness of the stroke of fonts.

(g) Primary Typeface

ESC(s#T # = Typeface Family 027 040 115 # 084 (116) (Default = 3 Courier) 1B 28 73 # 59 (74) # = 0 Line Printer

# = 2 Elite # = 3 Courier # = 6 Letter Gothic # = 8 Prestige # = 11 Presentation # = 52 Univers # = 110 OCR-B # = 104 OCR-A # = 4101 CG Times

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(h) Primary Font Setting

ESC(3@ 027 040 051 064 1B 28 33 40

This command sets the primary font characteristics to the user default set.

(i) Underline enable

ESC&d#D # = 0 Fixed Position Underline 027 038 100 # 068 (100) # = 3 Floating Position Underline 1B 26 64 # 44 (64)

This command starts underlining text and continues to underline text until the underline disable command is received. The floating underline position is determined by the greatest underline distance data which each font has in its own descriptor, among all the fonts on the current line

(j) Underline Disable

ESC&d@ 027 038 100 064 1B 26 64 40

This command cancels the underline enable command and the printer stops underlining.

(k) Transparent Print Data

ESC&p#Xdata # = Number of bytes in transparent 027 038 112 # 088 data print data. 1B 26 70 # 58 data (Default = 0)

This command will enable your printer to print out all the transparent print data, which is usually unprintable.

Soft Fonts Management Commands

When you use downloaded soft fonts you will have to organise them, such as choosing to save them in RAM, deleting or assigning ID numbers and setting up temporary parameters.

(a) Font ID Assignment

ESC*c#D # = ID Number 027 042 099 # 068 (100) (Default = 0) 1B 2A 63 # 46 (66)

This command assigns an ID number for use when downloading selection and deselection.

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ESC(#X # = Font ID number 027 040 # 088 (120) 1B 28 # 58 (78)

This command designates the soft font (#) as Primary.

(d) Font Descriptor

ESC)s#W data # = Number of bytes in the font 027 041 115 # 087 data descriptor data. 1B 29 73 # 57 data (Data = Font descriptor data.)

(e) Character Descriptor

ESC(s#Wdata # = Number of bytes in the character 027 040 115 # 087 data descriptor and data. 1B 28 73 # 57 data

(Data = Character descriptor data.)

This character downloads the character descriptor and associated data to the printer.

Raster Graphics

(f) Character Code

ESC*c#E # = Character code in decimal 027 042 099 # 069 (101) 1B 2A 63 # 45 (65)

This command designates the character code for the next downloaded character.

Your printer is capable of printing images that have been sent to it in the form of a binary data as raster images (images which are divided into dot rows.)

(a) Raster Graphics Resolution

ESC*t#R # = 75 75 x 75 dpi 027 042 116 # 082 (114) # = 100 100 x 100 dpi 1B 2A 74 # 52 (72) # = 150 150 x 150 dpi

# = 300 300 x 300 dpi # = 600 600 x 600 dpi

(Default = 75)

This command designates the resolution of the raster data.

(b) Start Raster Graphics

ESC*r#A # = 0 Start raster graphics from 027 042 114 # 065 (97) default left graphics margin. 1B 2A 72 # 41 (61) # = 1 Start raster graphics margin in

the current column.

This command specifies the start position for the raster graphics and begins the raster graphics data.

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ESC*b#M # = 0 Unencoded 027 098 # 099 (109) # = 1 Run length encoded 1B 2A 62 # 4D 6D # = 2 Tagged Image File Format

This command designates the graphics data compression mode for the printer to generate a raster graphics image from the received data.

(d) Transfer Raster Data

ESC*b#Wdata # = Number of bytes in the raster 027 042 098 # 087 data data. 1B 2A 62 # 57 data (Data = raster binary data)

This command sends a row of raster data to the printer.

(TIFF)

# = 3 Delta Row Compression

(Default = 0)

Vector Graphics

(e) End Raster Graphics

ESC*rB 027 042 114 66 (98) 1B 2A 72 42 (62)

This command designates the end of a raster graphic image.

To create an HP-GL/2 image in your document, you first need to enter the HP-GL/2 mode and draw your vector graphics.

(a) Enter the HP-GL/2 Mode

ESC%#B # = 0 Pen positioned at previous 027 037 # 066 (98) HP-GL/2 pen position. 1B 25 # 42 (62) # = 1 Pen will be positioned at the

current PCL cursor position.

This command places the printer in the HP-GL/2 mode and sets the start position of the pen.

(b ) Return to PCL Mode

ESC%#A # = 0 Cursor returns to the previous 027 037 # 065 (97) PCL cursor position. 1B 25 # 41 (61) # = 1 Cursor returns to the present

HP-GL/2 pen position

This command returns the printer to PCL mode and determines the cursor position.

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ESC*c#K # = Horizontal size in inches. 027 042 099 # 075 (107) 1B 2A 63 # 4B (6B)

This command specifies the horizontal size of the drawing.

(d) Set Vertical Size

ESC*c#L # = Vertical size in inches. 027 042 099 # 076 (108) 1B 2A 63 # 4C (6C)

This command specifies the vertical size of the drawing.

(e) Set Anchor Point

ESC*c0T 027 042 048 084 (116) 1B 2A 63 30 54 (74)

This command sets the PCL Picture Frame anchor point to PCL cursor position. This anchor point defines the upper left corner of the picture frame.

(f) Horizontal Picture Frame Size

ESC*c#X # = Horizontal size in decipoints 027 042 099 # 088 (120) ( 1B 2A 63 # 58 (78)

This command specifies the horizontal size of the picture frame.

(g) Vertical Picture Frame Size

ESC*c#Y # = vertical size in decipoints ( 027 042 099 # 089 (121) inch). 1B 2A 63 # 59 (79)

This command specifies the vertical size of the picture frame.

Graphics Image Manipulation

Some images and characters will be shaded or cross-hatched. You can create these advanced graphics images in your own documents.

(a) Select Pattern

ESC*v#T # = 0 Solid Black 027 042 118 # 084 (116) # = 1 Solid White 1B 2A 76 # 54 (74) # = 2 Shading Pattern

inch)

720

# = 3 Cross Hatching Pattern

(Default = 0)

720

This command designates the type of pattern to be placed in your document.

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(b) Select Source Transparency

ESC*v#N # = 0 Transparent: The white 027 042 118 # 078 (110) pixels in the source are not 1B 2A 96 # 4E (6E) copied on to the destination.

This command designates the source images transparency mode.

ESC*v#O # = 0 Transparent: The white

027 042 118 # 079 (111) pixels in the pattern image are

1B 2A 76 # 4F (6F) not copied on to the destination.

# = 1 Opaque: The white pixels

in the source are copied in white directly on to the destination.

# = 1 Opaque: The white pixels

in the pattern image are copied directly on the destination.

(d) Horizontal Rectangle Size in Decipoints

ESC*c#H # =

Number of Decipoints (1/

027 042 099 # 072 (104) 1B 2A 63 # 48 (68)

This command designates the rectangle width in decipoints.

(e) Horizontal Rectangle Size in Dots

ESC*c#A # = Number of dots ( 027 042 099 # 065 (97) 1B 2A 63 # 41 (61)

This command designates the rectangle width in dots.

(f) Vertical Rectangle Size in Decipoints

ESC*c#V # = Number of decipoints ( 027 042 099 # 086 (118) 1B 2A 63 # 56 (76)

This command designates the rectangle height in decipoints.

(g) Vertical Rectangle Size in Dots

ESC*c#B # = Number of dots ( 027 042 099 # 066 (98) 1B 2A 63 # 42 (62)

300

720

inch)

720

inch)

This command designates the rectangle height in dots.

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(h) Fill Rectangular Area

ESC*c#P # = 0 Black fill 027 042 099 # 080 (112) # = 1 Erase (white) fill 1B 2A 63 # 50 (70) # = 2 Shaded fill

# = 3 Cross Hatch Fill # = 5 Current pattern fill

(Default = 0)

This command fills a rectangular area with the fill that has been selected for that area.

(i) Area Fill ID

ESC * c # G 027 042 099 # 071 (103) 1B 2A 63 # 47 (67)

When the shaded fill is selected:

# = 1 to 2 Shade A # = 3 to 10 Shade B # = 11 to 20 Shade C # = 21 to 35 Shade D # = 36 to 55 Shade E # = 56 to 80 Shade F # = 81 to 99 Shade G # = 100 Shade H

Shade A 1-2% Shade B 3 -10% Shade C 11-20% Shade D 21-35%

Shade E 36-55% Shade F 56-80 % Shade G 81-99% Shade H 100%

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When a cross hatched fill is selected

# = 1 Pattern A # = 2 Pattern B # = 3 Pattern C # = 4 Pattern D # = 5 Pattern E # = 6 Pattern F

Pattern D Pattern E Pattern F

Macros

Pattern A Pattern B Pattern C

A macro is a group of data which includes PCL commands and data created by users. When a user regularly uses one group of data it can be stored in the printer by giving it a Macro ID number.

How to create a macro in the printer :

(i) Assign Macro ID Number (ii) Define Macro Start (iii) Send a group of data as a macro (iv) Define Macro Stop

How to call up a macro from the printer:

(v) Type Macro ID Number (vi) Execute Macro

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(a) Macro ID

ESC&f#Y # = Macro ID Number 027 038 102 # 089 (121) 1B 26 66 # 59 (79)

This command specifies the ID number for subsequent macro commands ( (i) and (v) on previous page).

(b) Macro Control

ESC&f#X # = 0 Start macro information 027 038 102 # 088 (120) (ii). 1B 26 66 # 58 (78) # = 1 Stop macro information

(iv). # = 2 Execute Macro (vi). # = 3 Call Macro. # = 4 Enable Macro for

automatic overlay. # = 5 Disable automatic overlay. # = 6 Delete all macros. # = 7 Delete all temporary

macros. # = 8 Delete all macros specified

by ID numbers. # = 9 Make Macro temporary # = 10 Make Macro permanent # = 41 Make DeskTop Macro

permanent # = 51 Reset permanent DeskTop

Macro

Note: All macros will be lost when the printer is turned off.

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Miscellaneous

(a) End of line wrap

ESC&s#C # = 0 Enable end of line wrap. 027 038 115 # 067 (99) # = 1 Disable end of line wrap. 1B 26 73 # 43 (63) (Default = 1)

When enabled, CR-LF will be executed at the right-hand margin position automatically. When disabled, a character exceeding the right-hand margin will be clipped.

(b) Display Function

ESCY 027 089 1B 59

This command puts the printer into the Display Functions Mode. In this mode all control codes will be printed (if the selected symbol set has these codes) normally.

ESCZ 027 090 1B 5A

This command disables the Display Functions Mode. All control codes will be executed normally.

HP-GL/2 Commands

Your printer can provide you with vector graphics printing through the HP-GL/2 command language. HP-GL/2 produces circles, arcs, lines, etc., in any shape, size and angle, with relative ease. The HP-GL/2 commands are much simpler and quicker to use than equivalent PCL raster image commands. A summary of HP-GL/2 commands is shown below, for more technical information, please contact your nearest Oki support centre.

In order to switch from HP-PCL mode to HP-GL/2 mode, the "Enter HP-GL/2 Mode" command (ESC%#B) must be issued first. Each HP-GL/2 command starts with an mnemonic, continues with parameters (most of them are optional), separators (commas between parameters) and ends with a semicolon (command terminator), for example:

Character Plot: CP Spaces, Lines;

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(mnemonic) (parameter1) (paremeter2)

Select Primary Font ID

Selects as primary the font that was being used in the PCL mode.

Select Secondary Font ID

Selects as secondary the font that was previously selected in the PCL mode.

Specify Scalable or Bitmap fonts.

SB (n)

Specifies the typeface of fonts to be used for labels.

n = 0 Scalable Fonts n = 1 Bitmap and scalable fonts

Define Transparency Mode

TR (n)

Defines how to copy the white area in the source image on to the destination image.

n = 0 Transparency mode is off. n = 1 Transparency mode is on. (Default)

Select Screened Vectors

Selects area fill type for lines, hatch lines, arcs, circles, polygon edges and wedges.

Arc Absolute

Draws an arc using absolute co-ordinates.

Arc Relative

Draws an arc using relative co-ordinates.

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Absolute Arc Three Point

Draws an arc from the current pen position through two absolute points.

Plot Absolute

Allows movement to absolute co-ordinate locations.

Plot Relative

Enables movement relative to the current pen position.

Pen down

Lowers the logical pen on to the page.

Pen Up

Lifts the logical pen from the page.

Relative Arc Three Point

Draws an arc from the current pen position through two relative points.

Polyline Encoded

Encodes common HP-GL/2 commands to increase printer throughput.

Circle

This command draws a circle with a specified radius.

Fill Rectangle Absolute

Fills a specified rectangle with absolute co-ordinates.

Fill Rectangle Relative

Fills a rectangle which has been specified with relative co-ordinates.

Edge Rectangle Absolute

Outlines a rectangle specified with absolute co-ordinates.

Edge Rectangle Relative

Outlines a rectangle specified with relative co-ordinates.

Fill Wedge

Defines and fills a wedge shaped polygon.

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Edge Wedge

Outlines a wedge shaped polygon.

Polygon Mode

Allows the user to create their own polygons in the polygon buffer.

Fill Polygon

Fills the polygon specified in the polygon buffer with the currently selected fill.

Edge Polygon

Outlines the polygon resident in the polygon buffer.

Select Standard Font

Selects the font designated by SD for printing labels.

Select Alternate Font

Selects the font designated by AD.

Absolute Label Direction

Specifies the slope of the labels independently of P1 and P2 positions.

Relative Label Direction

Specifies the slope of labels relative to the P1 and P2 positions.

Absolute Character Size

Specifies the absolute character size in centimetres.

Relative Character Size

Specifies character size as a percentage of the P1/P2 distance.

Character Slant

Specifies the slant as a tangent of an angle in the printed labels.

Extra Space

Adjusts the space between characters and lines of text.

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Standard Font Definition

Specifies the standard font for printing labels by kinds and values.

Kind 1: Symbol Set (specific definition number). Kind 2: Font Spacing (fixed or proportional). Kind 3: Pitch (character per inch). Kind 4: Height (font point size). Kind 5: Posture (upright or italic). Kind 6: Stroke weight (thickness). Kind 7: Typeface (specific definition number).

Alternate Font Definition

Specifies the alternate font for printing labels by kinds and value.

Character Fill Mode

Specifies how outline fonts are to be filled/described.

Label Origin

Specifies the positioning of the characters within a label.

Label

Prints attached text using the current font.

Define Label Terminator

Defines label termination.

Character Plot

Moves the pen the specified number of character cells from the present pen position.

Transparent Data

Specifies whether control codes perform their function or are printed as characters.

Define Variable Text Path

Specifies the direction of print in 90° increments from 0°, -90°, -180°, and -270°.

Line Type

Selects the line pattern for line drawings.

Line Attributes

Specifies the shape in which lines end and their joins are drawn.

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Pen Width

Specifies a new pen width.

Pen Width Unit Selection

Specifies whether pen width is specified in millimetres or as a percentage of P1/P2.

Select Pen

Selects a pen to be used for plotting.

Symbol Mode

Draws a character at each co-ordinate position.

Anchor Corner

Specifies the starting point for fill patterns.

Raster Fill Definition

Specifies a pattern for an area fill.

User Defined Line Type

Defines a line pattern.

Scale

Establishes a user unit co-ordinate system.

Input Window

Sets up the soft clip window limits.

Input P1 and P2

Establishes locations for the scaling points P1 and P2.

Input Relative P1 and P2

Establishes P1 and P2 locations relative to the PCL Picture Frame.

Default Values

Sets the most programmable features to default settings.

Initialize

Sets all programmable features to default conditions.

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Rotate Co-ordinate System

Rotates the co-ordinate system at a specified angle either 0, 90, 180, or 270 degrees.

Printable Areas 5-1

Chapter 5

Printable Areas

5-2 Printable Areas

Printable Areas

Printable Area for Each Paper Size

HP Emulation Print area.

Print quality guaranteed area is up to

8.5" (2550)



8.16" (2448)



/4 inch from the paper edges.

7.25" (2175)



6.91" (2073)



10.67" (3200)



9.17" (2750)



LETTER

4.12" (1237)



3.78" (1134)



COM-10

EXECUTIVE

11.0" (3300)



9.5" (2850)

10.17" (3050)



7.17" (2150)



3.87" (1162)



3.53" (1059)



MONARCH



10.5" (3150)



7.5" (2250)



8.32" (2496)



4.33" (1299)



3.99" (1197)



6.38" (1913)



8.67" (2601)



6.04" (1812)



9.01" (2704)



8.66" (2598)

Printable Areas 5-3



11.35" (3405)



5.49" (1647

7.93" (2379)



8.27" (2480)

4.13" (1240)



3.79" (1137)



5.83" (1748)



7.93" (2379)



5.49" (1647)



7.16" (2149)

6.82" (2046)



(JIS)



8.27" (2480)



10.12" (3035)



11.69" (3507)



5.83" (1748)

9.78" (2934)



12.66" (3798)



12.256" (3676.8)



7.25" (2175)



6.91" (2073)



LEGAL 13"

9.016" (2704.8)

8.0" (2400)



13.00" (3900)



12.756" (3826.8)



13.66" (4098)



8.543" (2562.9)

8.50" (2500)

8.16" (2448)

LEGAL 14"

3.875" (1162.5)



3.535" (1060.5)



COM-9



14.00" (4200)



8.875" (2662.5)

Note: The figures within ( ) indicate the number of 300 dpi resolution units.

Symbol Sets A-1

Appendix A

Symbol Sets

A-2 Symbol Sets

Symbol Sets

These symbol sets can be selected by the control codes or by the menu using the control panel.

Menu Display Symbol Set Select String

ROMAN-8 ROMAN-8 ESC(8U ECMA-94 ECMA-94 (Latin1) ESC(0N PC-8 PC-8 ESC(10U PC-8 DN PC-8 Dan/Norwegian ESC(11U PC-850 PC-850 ESC(12U Legal Legal ESC(1U ISO-2 IRV ESC(2U ISO 4 ISO-4 UK ESC(1E ISO 6 ISO-6 ASCII ESC(0U ISO 10 ISO-10 S/F ESC(3S ISO 11 ISO-11 Swe ESC(0S ISO 14 ISO-14 JASC ESC(0K ISO 15 ISO-15 Ita ESC(0I ISO 16 ISO-16 Por ESC(4S ISO 17 ISO-17 Spa ESC(2S ISO 21 ISO-21 Ger ESC(1G ISO 25 ISO-25 Fre ESC(0F ISO 57 ISO-57 Chi ESC(2K ISO 60 ISO-60 Nor ESC(0D ISO 61 ISO-61 Nor ESC(1D ISO 69 ISO-69 Fre ESC(1F ISO 84 ISO-84 Por ESC(5S ISO 85 ISO-85 Spa ESC(6S German German ESC(0G Spanish Spanish ESC(1S Dutch ISO Dutch ESC(90D Roman Ex Roman Extension ESC(0E Swdish 1 ISO Swedish1 ESC(91S Swdish 2 ISO Swedish2 ESC(92S Swdish 3 ISO Swedish3 ESC(93S IBM-437 IBM-437 ESC(2038Z IBM-850 IBM-850 ESC(2039Z IBM-860 IBM-860 ESC(2037Z IBM-863 IBM-863 ESC(2036Z IBM-865 IBM-865 ESC(2035Z PC Set 1 PC Set1 ESC(8Q PC Ext US PC Ext US ESC(9Q PC Ext D/N PC Ext D/N ESC(2033Z PC2 US PC Set2 US ESC(2034Z PC2 D/N PC Set2 D/N ESC(2032Z VN Math Ventura Math ESC(6M VN Intl Ventura International ESC(13J VN US Ventura US ESC(14J

Symbol Sets A-3

Menu Display Symbol Set Select String

PS Math PS Maths ESC(5M PS Text PS Text ESC(10J Math-8 Math-8 ESC(8M Pi Font Pi Font ESC(15U MS Publ Microsoft Publishing ESC(6J DeskTop Desk Top ESC(7J Win Cyr Cyrillic Windows ESC(9R PC-852 PC-852 (East European Latin2) ESC(17U Windows3.1 L5 Windows3.1 Latin5 Win Ltn 2 Windows3.1 Latin2 (East Europe) PC-866 PC-866 (Cyrillic) Win Grk Greek Windows 3.1 PC 869 PC-869 (Greek) PC 855 PC-855 (Cyrillic) CWI Hun CWI Hungarian PC 857 PC-857 (Turkish) ISO8859/2 L2 ISO8859/2 Latin2 ISO8859/9 L5 ISO8859/9 Latin5 MC Text MC Text Turkish PC-8 Turkish PC-8 Windows3.0 L1 Windows3.0 Latin1 Windows3.1 L1 Windows3.1 Latin1 Wingdings Font Wingdings Font Symbol Font Symbol Font Hebrew NC Hebrew NC (862) Hebrew OC Hebrew OC Kamenicky<MJK> Kamenicky<MJK> Polska Mazovia Polska Mazovia Greek-437 Greek-437 Greek-437 Cy Greek-437 Cyprus Greek-928 Greek-928 ISO8859/10 L6 ISO8859/10 Latin6

ESC(5T ESC(9E

ESC(3R

ESC(2042Z

ESC(2041Z

ESC(2031Z

ESC(2044Z

ESC(2040Z

ESC(2N

ESC(5N

ESC(12J ESC(9T ESC(9U ESC(19U ESC(599L ESC(19M

ESC(2020Z

ESC(2021Z ESC(2022Z ESC(2023Z ESC(2024Z

ESC(2025Z

ESC(2026Z

ESC(2029Z

A-4 Symbol Sets

Roman-8 (selected by 8U)

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ECMA-94 Latin-1 (selected by 0N)

Symbol Sets A-5

A-6 Symbol Sets

PC-8 US (selected by 10U)

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Interfacing B-1

Appendix B

Interfacing

B-2 Interfacing

Interfacing

This appendix will help you design a SHIELDED parallel interface cable that connects your printer to your computer. This requires, however, some knowledge of electronics. If you are not technically oriented, we recommend that you purchase a SHIELDED parallel interface cable from your dealer.

Parallel Interfacing

The printer requires a Centronics equivalent parallel cable with the following:

❏ Amphenol 57-30360 or AMP 552274-1 plug (or equivalent) with 36 pins. ❏ AMP 552073-1 (or equivalent) cover. ❏ Beldon (or equivalent) SHIELDED cable with twisted pair conductors. It cannot

exceed 1.8 metres in length and must be safety regulations approved. The cable MUST be shielded.

Pin Description

Pin Signal Direction Description

1 Data strobe To printer Samples input data when changing from low level to

high level.

2-9 Data bits 1-8 To printer Indicates input data. High level indicates 1; low level

indicates 0.

10 Acknowledge From printer Indicates character input completion or function

operation end, low level indicates active.

11 Busy From printer Indicates data cannot be received at high level.

Data can be input at low level. 12 Paper end From printer High level indicates paper end. 13 Select From printer High level indicates select (on-line) condition. 14 0 V Signal ground. 15 Not used. 16 0 V Signal ground. 17 Chassis ground Chassis ground. 18 +5 V From printer +5 V supply (100mA maximum).

19-30

0 V Twisted pair returns for pins 1 through 11 .

31 Input prime To printer Controller of the printer is initialized at low level.

Low level indicates time more than 5 msec.

32 Fault From printer This signal goes from high to low, it is low when an

error condition occurs, such as paper end or off-line.

33 0 V Signal Ground. 34 Not used. 35 Set to high. Connected to + 5 V

through 3.3 K.

36 Not used.

Connector pin configuration

Timing

PARALLEL DATA (DATA BIT 1 to 8)

Interfacing B-3

DATA STROBE

0 to 0.5 µs

BUSY



100 µs ~











ACKNOWLEDGE











Note: The minimum value of TB (busy-on time) is 20 µs, and the maximum

value is the time spent for printing and paper feed.

1.63 µs

3.26 µs

B-4 Interfacing

RS-232C Serial Interfacing

To construct a cable for an RS-232C serial configuration, you will need: ➢ SHIELDED cable with twisted pair conductors. Must be safety regulations

approved. The cable MUST be shielded.

➢ DB25 plug (printer end). either ➢ DB25 socket (PC end if your PC has a 25-pin serial port) or ➢ DB9 socket (PC end if your PC has a 9-pin serial port)

DB-25 Pin Configuration

Pin Assignment and Description Table

Pin Signal Direction Description

1 Frame ground – Frame ground 2 Transmitted data To printer Transmitted data 3 Received data From printer Received data 4 Request to send To printer Stay space level 5– 6– 7 Signal ground To printer Signal ground 9-17 NC – Not connected 18 +5V To printer +5V (if jumper installed) 19 NC – Not connected 20 DTR Data terminal ready 21-25 NC – Not connected

Interface Cable Connection Example:

a) IBM-PC (9-pin) Printer (25-pin) b) IBM PC (25-pin) Printer (25-pin)

Signal Pin Pin Signal Signal Pin Pin Signal

RD 2 2 TD RD 3 2 TD TD 3 3 RD TD 2 3 R D GND 5 7 GND GND 7 7 GND DSR 6 20 DTR DSR 6 20 DTR CTS 8 4 RTS CTS 5 4 RTS CD 1 1 NC CD 8 8 NC DTR 4 6 NC DTR 20 6 NC RTS 7 8 NC RTS 4 8 NC FG SHELL FG FG SHELL FG

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LCD Window Display Messages C–1

Appendix C

LCD Window Display Messages

C–2 LCD Window Display Messages

1234

LCD Window Display Messages

Printer Status Messages

This chapter contains explanations of the different messages you will see, displayed on one, or both lines in the LCD window of your printer.

Lamp Status Control Panel

: Blink

READY

: On

ON-LINE

: Off

234

: Undefined

Prty Message Status

READY

26 Indicates the printer is inON-LINE

26 Indicates the printer is in OFF-LINE

READY

25 Ready ON: Indicates that there is

ON-LINE HPIII

OFF-LINE HPIII

DATA HPIII

mode, HP III emulation.

mode.

data in the printer buffer. Ready BLINK: Indicates that the printer is receiving data.

24 Indicates that copy pages are being

READY

123

CPY nn/mm

printed. nn = current page. mm = total pages.

READY

25 Indicates that the printer is operating

23 Indicates that the amount of toner

123

READY

123

PWR SAVE

TONER LOW

in power saving mode.

left in the toner cartridge is low. Print quality may be affected.

LCD Window Display Messages C–3

Prty Message Status

22 The printer clears the remaining

READY

RESET

data in its buffer and resets the menu to user default settings. Temporary DLL/Macro data is also cleared.

21 The printer will print a demo page.

READY

PRINT DEMO

READY ON – Initiated by software command. READY BLINK – Initiated by button.

21 The printer will print current menu

READY

PRINT MENU

settings. READY ON – Initiated by software command. READY BLINK – Initiated by button.

21 The printers will print all the

READY

FONTS

available fonts. READY ON – initiated by software command. READY BLINK – initiated by button.

20 Indicates that the printer has reached

READY

CHG DRUM

the end of its life (image drum).

Print quality may be affected.

19 Indicates that the printer and fuser

READY

123

FUSER

has reached the end of its life.

Print quality may be affected.

18 The printers fuser unit is warming

READY

WARM UP

up. When complete the printer goes into on-line mode automatically. During this process the printer can receive data.

READY

17 The printer is asking you to insert

MANUAL XXXXXXXX

requested size paper.

XXXXXXXX: (Paper Size) SIZE REQUEST

C–4 LCD Window Display Messages

Prty Message Status

17 The printer is asking you to insert

READY

TRAY 1 XXXXXXXX

16 Indicates that the paper tray is empty.

READY

TRAY 1 PAPER OUT

READY

15 The page buffer memory has

PAGE BUF OVERFLOW

the correct size paper in the paper tray. XXXXXXXX: (Paper Size) SIZE REQUEST

Tray 1: Upper Tray Tray 2: Lower Tray Feeder: Multi Media Feeder

overflowed because the page contains too much data. Press RECOVER to continue. Install extra memory or reduce data on page.

14 The macro memory has overflowed.

READY

13 The down line load memory has

12 The receive buffer memory has

11 Print processing speed could not

READY

10 Parity error, framing eror, overrun

READY

MACRO OVERFLOW

DLL BUFF OVERFLOW

REC BUF OVERFLOW

PRINT OVERRUN

HOST I/F ERROR

Press RECOVER to continue. Install extra memory or reduce macro data on page.

overflowed. Press RECOVER to continue. Install extra memory or reduce down line load font data.

overflowed. Press RECOVER to continue. The PC ignores printer busy signal in the interface, check cable pin assignments.

follow the paper feed speed. Press RECOVER to continue. Simplify page formatting data or select Page Protection menu.

error found on serial interface. Press RECOVER to continue. Check communication protocol PC to printer.

READY

9 Wrong paper size found. Open and

PAPER SIZE ERR

close printer cover to continue. Check paper size or paper double feed.

LCD Window Display Messages C–5

Prty Message Status

READY

8 Paper jam found, when fed from

7 Paper jam found, during paper feed.

6 Paper jam is found in paper exit

READY

PAPER INPUT JAM

PAPER FEED JAM

PAPER EXIT JAM

paper tray. Check paper in the tray. Open and close printer cover to continue.

Remove misfed paper and close printer cover to continue.

area. Open printer cover, remove paper, close printer cover to continue.

READY

5 Cover is open. Press down firmly to

READY

4 Font card could not be read. Switch

3 Fontcard has been removed, o r

READY

2 Abnormality found in the printer.

1 Abnormality found in the printer.

READY

COVER T2 OPEN

CARD FORMAT

CARD ERROR

ERROR (nn)

ERROR 0n aaaaaaaa

close.

off printer and re-install fontcard.

installed during power on, to continue switch printer off then on again.

Switch printer off then on again to clear, if problem persists, contact service representative.

READY

– Displayed in window for one second

88888888 88888888

after switching on power, for test purposes.

C–6 LCD Window Display Messages

Prty Message Status

– Printer is in initialization mode after

READY

INITIAL-

switching on, prior to on-line mode.

IZING

READY

– Printer is requesting RESET button

Note: For further information on the meaning of the (nn) part of the ERROR message please refer to the following table.

Code (nn) Error

10 Program ROM check error 20 Font ROM check error 30 Resident RAM check error

RESET TO SAVE

to be pressed for more than 2 seconds, to write new menu data to EEPROM.

40 EEPROM check error 50 Option software ROM check error 60 Option RAM check error 70 Fan error 71 Fuser error 80 Operator panel I/F error 81 Optional Tray I/F Error 90 Watchdog timer time out

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