Panasonic KX-P7200 User Manual

Panasonic

Software Commands Manual

for KX-P7200

Table of Contents

Printing Description PCL Commands HP-GL/2 Command PJL Commands

Appendix A Appendix B

MSL Symbol List

Index

Character Tables

Unicode Symbol List

PCL Commands

Page Formatting Font Selection Moving the Printing Position Raster Graphics Macros Print Model Advanced Graphics Status Readback Miscellaneous

HP-GL/2 Commands

The Configuration and Status The Polygon Group The Vector Group The Line and Fill Attributes Group The Character Group

PJL Commands

Introduction PJL Command Syntax and Format Print Environment Composition PJL Reset Conditions Environment Variables Status Message Usage of Command PJL Commands

Printing Description

Introduction

The items discussed in the following sections are listed below:

• Page Orientation, Paper Length, Paper Width

• Printable Area

• Coordinate System

• Fonts

• Terms for Bitmap Font

• Paper Formatting

• Print Start Conditions

Page Orientation, Paper Length, Paper Width

Only single sheet paper can be used with this printer. The size of the paper is determined by the paper length and paper width settings. Both paper length and paper width are decided by the direction of printing, i.e., page orientation.

There are two page orientations: portrait printing mode and landscape printing mode. In the portrait printing mode, the text is printed perpendicular to the longer side of the paper. On the other hand, in the landscape printing mode, the text is printed parallel with the long side of the paper.

The method of paper setting and the paper feed direction are the same in both modes.

The paper feed direction, paper length, paper width and paper orientation are shown in Figure 2.1.

ABCDEFG

Paper lengthPaper width

Paper length

Portrait printing mode Landscapeprinting mode

Figure2.1 Portrait and landscape orientation

Paper width

ABCDEFG

Printable Area

The printable area refers to the area where texts and figures can be printed. There exists an unprintable area on the margins of the paper where texts and figures cannot be printed (illustrated below by oblique lines).

The printable area size shown in the table is for the printer with 300 dpi resolution. Multiply the dots by 2 for the printer with 600 dpi resolution. For the printer with 600 dpi resolution, 1 dot is equal to 1/

600

A D

Printing area

A D

Paper length

Paper width

Distance between the edge of the paper and the printable area

Length of the printable area

G E

Portrait Landscape

E: F:

Figure 2.2 printable area and unprintable area

Printing area

G E

Width of the printable area Distance between the edge of the paper and the logical page Width of the logical page

Paper Type Letter Legal

Paper Size 8. 5"x11"

(215.9x279.4 mm)

8. 5"x14"

(215.9x355.6 mm)

Portrait/ Landscape P L P L

A(dots) 3,300 2,550 4,200 2,550 B(dots) 2,550 3,300 2,550 4,200 C(dots) 50 50 50 50 D(dots) 3,200 2,450 4,100 2,450 E(dots) 2,450 3,200 2,450 4,100

F(dots) 75 60 75 60 G(dots) 2,400 3,180 2,400 4,080

Table 2.1 Printable area size (1 dot=1/

Paper Type A4 EXECUTIVE

Paper Size 210x297 mm

(8.27"x11.7")

7. 25"x10.5"

(184.1x266.7 mm)

Portrait/ Landscape P L P L

A(dots) 3,507 2,480 3,150 2,175 B(dots) 2,480 3,507 2,175 3,150 C(dots) 50 50 50 50 D(dots) 3,407 2,380 3,050 2,075 E(dots) 2,380 3,407 2,075 3,050

F(dots) 71 59 75 60 G(dots) 2,338 3,389 2,025 3,030

Table 2.1 Printable area size (continued) (1 dot=1/

300

Paper Type Envelope #10 Monarch

Paper Size 4.13"x9.5"

(104.9x241.3 mm)

3. 88"x7.5"

(98.5x190.5 mm)

Portrait/ Landscape P L P L

A(dots) 2,850 1,237 2,250 1,162 B(dots) 1,237 2,850 1,162 2,250 C(dots) 50 50 50 50 D(dots) 2,750 1,137 2,150 1,062 E(dots) 1,137 2,750 1,062 2,150

F(dots) 75 60 75 60 G(dots) 1,087 2,730 1,012 2,130

Table 2.1 Printable area size (1 dot=1/

300

Paper Type International

Paper Size 110x220 mm

(4.33"x8.66")

International

162x229 mm

(6.4"x9.02")

Portrait/ Landscape P L P L

A(dots) 2,598 1,299 2,704 1,913 B(dots) 1,299 2,598 1,913 2,704 C(dots) 50 50 50 50 D(dots) 2,498 1,199 2,604 1,813 E(dots) 1,199 2,498 1,813 2,604

F(dots) 71 59 71 59 G(dots) 1,157 2,480 1,771 2,586

Table 2.1 Printable area size (continued) (1 dot=1/

300

Paper Type Custom

Paper Size maximum

215.9x355.6 mm (8.5"x14")

Portrait/ Landscape P L

A(dots) 4,200 2,550 B(dots) 2,550 4,200 C(dots) 50 50 D(dots) 4,100 2,450 E(dots) 2,450 4,100

F(dots) 75 60

G(dots) 2,400 4,080

Table 2.1 Printable area size (1 dot=1/

300

Coordinate System

A coordinate system should be set up as a standard for deciding the location where texts or figures are printed. The origin of the coordinate system is initialized at the left upper corner of the paper in accordance with the printing direction in both portrait printing mode and landscape printing mode. Refer to Figure 2.3.

Origin (0,0)

Figure 2.3 Origin of the coordinate system

ABCDEFG

Portrait printing mode

Orig in (0,0)

ABC DEFG

Landscape printing mode

Built-in Fonts

The fonts except Line Printer are all scalable fonts. Proportional spacing for a scalable font can be set from 4 to 999.75 points. The value is increased or decreased by 0.25. Fixed pitch for a scalable font can be set from 0.44 to 99.99 cpi (characters per inch). The value is increased or decreased by 0.01. Line Printer is the only supported Bitmap Font (16.66 pitch, 8.5 points).

Font Pitch Style Stroke Weight

Albertus ps Upright

Antique Olive ps

Arial ps

CG Omega

CG Times

Table 2.2 Built-in fonts (continued) ps=proportional spacing

Upright Italic Medium Upright

Italic Upright Italic Upright Italic

Medium Extra Bold Medium Bold

Medium Bold Medium Bold Medium Bold Medium Bold Medium Bold Medium Bold

Font Pitch Style Stroke Weight

Clarendon Condensed ps Condensed Bold Coronet ps Italic Medium

Upright

Courier fixed

Italic

Medium Bold Medium

Bold Garamond Antiqua ps Upright Medium Garamond Halbfett ps Upright Bold Garamond Kursiv ps Italic Medium Garamond Kursiv Halbfett ps Italic Bold

Medium

Bold

Letter Gothic fixed

Upright

Italic Medium Line Printer fixed Upright Medium Marigold ps Upright Medium Symbol ps Upright Medium

Medium Bold Medium Bold

Times New Roman

Upright

Italic

Table 2.2 Built-in fonts (continued) ps=proportional spacing

Font Pitch Style Stroke Weight

Upright

Italic

Univers

Wingdings ps Upright Medium

Table 2.2 Built-in fonts ps=proportional spacing

Condensed

Italic

Medium Bold Medium Bold Medium Bold Medium Bold

Terms for Bitmap Font

Cel

CellCellheigh

Cellheigh

Cell

The term “cell” refers to the frame of the character which decides the size of bitmap when designing a font. The horizontal line of dots is called the dot line and vertical line is called dot column. The bottom line of the cell is called the first line and the leftmost column is called the first column.

Baseline

The term “baseline” refers to a standard line for printing characters in line. The position of a baseline is decided when designing a font. For example, when consecutive characters have different cell heights, they are printed so that the baseline of each character is aligned.

Figure 2 4 Baseline

Left/Right Offset of a Character

Left offset of character means the number of the dot lines on the left of a character where no dots are printed, and right offset refers to the number of the dot lines on the right of a character where no dots are printed.

Cell height

Leftoffse

Cell width

Baselin

Right offset

Figure 2.5 Character cell

Fixed Pitch Characters

HMI

≠

The cell width is constant for fixed pitch characters.

Baseline

Figure 2.6 Fixed character pitch

Proportional Spacing Characters

Proportional spacing means the character width of the cell is different for each character according to the width of each character. An “M” is a wider character than an “I”.

Baselin

Figure 2.7 Proportional spacing

Paper Formatting

The printer has the following paper formatting requirements:

• Page width is the distance from the left edge to the right margin of the paper and must be less than or equal to the paper width.

• Page length must be greater than or equal to 1 line and less than or equal to the paper length.

Portrait Printing Mode

Single page

Origin

Page width

Page length

Page width

Figure 2.8 Paper formatting-portrait

Page length

TM: Top margin BM: Bottom margin LM: Left margin RM: Right margin

Landscape Printing Mode

Single page

Origin

Page width

Page length

Paper width

Figure 2.9 Paper formatting-landscape

Page length

TM: Top margin BM: Bottom margin LM: Left margin RM: Right margin

Print Start Conditions

This printer is a page printer. As such it will only begin printing when print start conditions are satisfied, that is, after the layout of data for one sheet of print has been completed. Therefore, if the print start conditions are not satisfied, the data to be printed remains in the printer even if all the printing data has been sent from the computer.

• FF is received.

• Reset command is received.

• Orientation is changed.

• DATA TIME OUT is set to ON and the time set has passed.

• PRINT key has been pressed.

• Page size or page length is changed.

PCL Commands

Command Group Function Name

Page Formatting

Font Selection

Control code comparison chart-page reference table (continued)

Orientation Page Size Print Direction Top Margin Text Length Skip Perforation Left Margin Right Margin Margin Clear Lines Per Inch VMI HMI Shift In Shift Out Symbol Set Spacing Print Pitch

Character Height Character Style Stroke Weight Typeface Default Font

ESC “&l#O” ESC “&l#A” ESC “&a#P” ESC “&l#E” ESC “&l#F” ESC “&l#L” ESC “&a#L” ESC “&a#M” ESC “9” ESC “&l#D” ESC “&l#C” ESC “&k#H” SI SO ESC “(ID” ESC “(s#P” ESC “(s#H” ESC “&k#S” ESC “(s#V” ESC “(s#S” ESC “(s#B” ESC “(s#T” ESC “(#@”

Command Group Function Name

Moving the Printing Position

Raster Graphics

Font Downloading

Control code comparison chart-page reference table (continued)

Horizontal

Vertical

Resolution Set Graphics Presentation Mode Height Width Graphics Start Y Offset Compression Mode Data Sending Graphics End  Version B  Version C Font ID define Font Header Character Code Define Download Character Font Define Font/character Control User-Defined Symbol Set ID Code Define User-Defined Symbol Set User-Defined Symbol Set Control

ESC “&a#C” ESC “*p#X” ESC “&a#H” ESC “&a#R” ESC “*p#Y” ESC “&a#V” ESC “*t#R” ESC “*r#F” ESC “*r#T” ESC “*r#S” ESC “*r#A” ESC “*b#Y” ESC “*b#M” ESC “*b#W” ESC “*rB” ESC “*rC” ESC “*c#D” ESC “)s#W” ESC “*c#E” ESC “(s#W” ESC “(#X” ESC “*c#F” ESC “*c#R” ESC “(f#W” ESC “*c#S”

Command Group Function Name

Macros Macro ID

Macro Control

Print Model Pattern Transparency Mode

Source Transparency Mode Current Pattern Designating Graphics Pattern Logical Operation Pixel Placement

Advanced Graphics

Status Readback

Control code comparison chart-page reference table (continued)

Rule Width Rule Height Pattern ID

Rule/Pattern Print Download Pattern Data Tile Pattern Control Pattern Set Status Readback Location Type Set Status Readback Location Unit Inquire Status Readback Entity Free Space Flush All Pages Echo

ESC “&f#Y” ESC “&f#X” ESC “*v#O” ESC “*v#N” ESC “*v#T” ESC “*c#G” ESC “*l#O” ESC “*l#R” ESC “*c#A” ESC “*c#H” ESC “*c#B” ESC “*c#V” ESC “*c#G” ESC “*c#P” ESC “*c#W” ESC “*p#R” ESC “*c#Q” ESC “*s#T” ESC “*s#U” ESC “*s#I” ESC “*s1M” ESC “&r#F” ESC “*s#X”

Command Group Function Name

Miscellaneous

Plotting Picture Frame

Control code comparison chart-page reference table

Display Function Transparent Print

Underlining  Setting  Release Push/Pop Printing Position Half Line Feed CR/LF/FF Action Wrap Around Number of Copies Paper Input Control Duplex Page Side Selection Simplex/Duplex Print Printer Reset Self-test Left Offset Registration Top Offset Registration Universal Exit/Start of PCL Decide PCL Units Picture frame Horizontal

size-Decipoints

Picture frame Vertical

size-Decipoints Set picture frame anchor point GL Plot Horizontal size-Inches GL Plot Vertical size-Inches Enter PCL Mode Enter GL Mode

ESC “Y” ESC “Z” ESC “&p#X” ESC “&d#D” ESC “&d@” ESC “&f#S” ESC “=” ESC “&k#G” ESC “&s#C” ESC “&l#X” ESC “&l#H” ESC “&a#G” ESC “&l#S” ESC “E” ESC “z” ESC “&l#U” ESC “&l#Z” ESC “%-12345X” ESC “&u#D” ESC “*c#X”

ESC “*c#Y” ESC “*c#T”

ESC “*c#K” ESC “*c#L” ESC “%#A” ESC “%#B”

PCL Commands

Page Formatting

Page formatting is executed by setting the following: orientation, page size, page length, top margin, text length, skip perforation, vertical line feed, horizontal spacing, left margin and right margin. Format can be classified by orientation in two ways; portrait printing mode and landscape printing mode.

Top margin

Page length

Left margin

Rightmargin

Portrait printing mode

Figure 3.1 Page formatting

Text

length

Bottom

margin

Page length

Left ma rgin

Right margin

Landscape printing mode

Top margin

Text

length

Bottom

margin

Orientation

Setting:

This command decides the page orientation. When the orientation is changed, top margin, text length, left margin, right margin, HMI and VMI return to the default setting and the primary and secondary fonts are changed and reevaluated. Therefore, this command should be sent from the computer as the first command of the page. When data already exists in the printer and the printer receives this command, printing automatically starts and the printing position is moved to the first column of the first line.

ESC “&l#O”

#=0: Portrait printing mode

1: Landscape printing mode 2: Reverse portrait printing mode 3: Reverse landscape printing mode

Page Size

Setting:

This command sets the page size and also sets page length, page width, top margin, bottom margin, left margin and right margin to default setting values.

ESC “&l#A”

#= 1: Executive (71/4x101/2 inch)

3: Legal (81/2x14 inch) 2: Letter (81/2x11 inch)

6: Ledger (11x17 inch) 26: A4 (210x297 mm) 27: A3 (297x420 mm) 80:

Monarch (Letter37/8x71/2 inch)

81:

Commercial #10 (Business41/8x91/2 inch) 90: International DL (110x220 mm) 91: International C5 (162x229 mm)

101: Custom (maximum 13x19 inch)

Print Direction

Setting:

ESC “&a#P”

0  0°

90  90° 180  180° 270  270°

Portrait Landscape Reverse prtrait Reverse landscape

This command rotates the logical page coordinate system in the current orientation without outputting a page. You are able to print in four orientations on the same page. This command rotates the coordinate system in 90 degrees increments counterclockwise.

Top Margin

Setting:

This command sets the top margin. The top margin indicates the margin on the upper end of the printing paper. The desired length of the margin is entered by the number of the lines(1 line = VMI) in the value field #, and any value from 0 to the page length can be used. The default setting is ½ inch from top of logical page. When the top margin is set, the text length returns to the default setting. Since an unprintable area of 60 dots exists on the upper end of the printing paper, some upper part of text cannot be printed when the top margin is set as 0 or 1 line. This command only sets the top margin. It does not move the printing position to the top margin. Therefore, the printing position must be moved to the top margin by the vertical movement of the printing position command when printing from the top margin is required. Otherwise the printing from the top margin is effective only on the next page. When VMI is 0, this command is invalid.

ESC “&l#E”

#=Number of lines

+ 378 hidden pages