Xerox 4215-MRP User Manual 2

XEROX

Xerox MRP Family
4215/MRP, 4219/MRP, 4220/MRP, 4230/MRP

PCL 5 and PostScript
Printer Language Reference

March 1995
721P81072

Xerox Corporation
701 S. Aviation Boulevard
El Segundo, CA 90245

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Installation caution

Safety

Notices

Your Xerox laser printer is not customer installable. Only a
qualified service representative should install the equipment.

CAUTION: This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate
radio frequency energy, and if not installed and used in
accordance with the installation requirements, may cause radio
interference to radio communications.

U.S.A.

Your printer has been tested and found to comply with the limits
for a Class A computing device pursuant to Subpart J of Part 15
of FCC rules, which are designed to provide reasonable
protection against such interference when operated in a
commercial environment. Operation of this equipment in a
residential area is likely to cause interference. In such cases, the
user at his or her own expense is required to correct the
interference.

Canada

This digital apparatus does not exceed the Class A limits for radio
noise emissions from digital apparatus as set out in the radio
interference regulations of the Canadian department of
communications.

Les present appareil numerique n’emet pas de bruits
radioelectriques depassant les limites applicables aux appareils de
Classe A prescitees dans le reglement sur le brouillage
radioelectrique edicte par les ministre des communications du
Canada.

Europe: 50 Hz, 220 to 240 V equipment

This equipment has been tested and certified in conformance
with European commission directive 82/499/ECC and VDE
0871/0875, Class A, relating to radio frequency interference.

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NOTICES

Laser safety

Your printer complies with appropriate safety standards.
Specifically regarding lasers, the equipment complies with laser

product performance standards set by governmental,
international and national agencies as a Class 1 laser product. It
does not emit hazardous light; the beam is totally enclosed
during all phases of customer operation and maintenance.

WARNING: Use of controls or adjustments or performance of
procedures other than those specified herein may result in
hazardous radiation exposure.

Be aware of all labels that warn you against removing panels or
covers. See the example below of a label located behind the
front cover, below the on/off switch.

DANGER - Invisible laser radiation
when open and interlock
defeated for service.

AVOID DIRECT EXPOSURE TO
BEAM

Operational safety

Instructions for safe service are
in SERVICE MANUAL.

These laser warning labels are placed on panels that cover areas
that are not operator serviceable. These panels are not to be
removed.

Your Xerox equipment and supplies are designed and tested to
meet strict safety requirements. These include safety agency
examination, approval, and compliance with established
environmental standards.

Attention to the following notes ensures the continued safe
operation of your equipment.

Do this

Always connect equipment to a properly grounded power source
receptacle. If in doubt, have the receptacle checked by a
qualified electrician.

WARNING: Improper connection of the equipment grounding
conductor can result in electrical shock.

Always place equipment on a floor with adequate strength for
the weight of the machine.

Always have your qualified service representative move or
relocate the equipment.

Always use materials and supplies specifically designed for your
Xerox equipment.

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NOTICES

WARNING: Use of unsuitable materials may result in poor
performance and can possibly create a hazardous condition.

Always use a Xerox specified cordset with the Equipment Leakage
Circuit Interrupter/Residual Current Device (ELCI/RCD).

Use caution when installing or modifying telephone lines.

Do not do this

Never use an extension cord with the ELCI/RCD.
Never use the ELCI/RCD where water may enter the casing.
Never attempt any maintenance function that is not specifically

described in this document.
Never remove any covers or guards that are fastened with screws

unless otherwise instructed. There are no operator-serviceable
areas within these covers.

Never override or “cheat” electrical or mechanical devices.
Never operate the equipment if you notice unusual noises or

odors. Disconnect the power cord from the power source
receptacle and call Xerox service to correct the problem.

Never install telephone wiring during a lightening storm.
Never install telephone jacks in a wet location unless specifically

designated for wet locations.
Never touch uninsulated telephone wires or terminals unless the

telephone line has been disconnected at the network interface.
Avoid using a telephone (other than a cordless type) during an

electrical storm. There may be a remote risk of electrical shock
from lightening.

Never use a telephone to report a gas leak in the vicinity of the
leak.

U.S. only: If you need any additional safety information
concerning the equipment or Xerox supplied materials, call the
following toll-free number: 1-800-828-6571.

Approvals and certification

60 Hz, 115 V Listed by Underwriters Laboratories, UL1950 (UL). Meets CSA

standards, C22.2 NO 950 (CSA).

50 Hz, 220 to 240 V Meets the British Standards Institution, IEC950 (BSI).

Safety feature

Your printer equipped with an Equipment Leakage Circuit
Interrupter/Residual Current Device (ELCI/RCD). This safety
device protects you if an electric outlet supplying power to the
printer is improperly wired.

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NOTICES

U.S. configuration of ELCI/RCD

1 Window
2 Reset button

International configuration of ELCI/RCD

1 Window
2 Reset button

If power is interrupted to the printer, follow these steps:

1. Locate the safety device, using the U.S. or International
Configuration (above).

2. Check to see if a red flag displays in the window of the
safety device.

3. If the red flag does not display, press and release the black
Reset button.

The red flag displays and power is restored to the system.

If power is not restored by this procedure or if the device
interrupts power to the machine again, call your service
representative.

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Table of contents

Notices iii

Installation caution iii
Safety iii

Laser safety iv
Operational safety iv

Introduction ix

About this manual ix

Text conventions ix

1. PostScript mode 1-1

Device-dependent features 1-1
Fonts available with the PostScript Language mode 1-1

Downloadable font types 1-2
Internal fonts 1-2
Adobe Type Manager fonts 1-3

Page Device setup 1-4

Page Device features 1-4
Resources 1-9
Compatibility operators 1-9
Miscellaneous PostScript features 1-9

2. HP LaserJet Emulation mode 2-1

HP PCL 5 compatibility 2-1

Job Control commands 2-2

Page Control commands 2-3
Image area 2-7
Fonts 2-7

Downloading fonts 2-7

Appendices

A. HP PCL command quick reference A-1
B. HP-GL/2 command quick reference B-1
C. Related publications C-1

Index INDEX-1

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About this manual

Text conventions

Introduction

The Printer Language Reference is intended as an aid to

programmers using PostScript Page Description Language (PDL)

or Hewlett-Packard (HP) Printer Control Language (PCL) 5 to

write programs for a laser printer.

This reference does not cover all aspects of HP PCL or PostScript

PDL.

Before using this manual, become familiar with its contents and

conventions.

The following text and procedure conventions are used

throughout this guide.

italics Italics are used for document and library names (for example, the

Xerox MRP Family 4220/MRP, 4230/MRP Operator Guide).

CAUTION: Cautions are associated with equipment safety.

WARNING: Warnings are associated with the safety of people.

N Notes: Hints that help you perform a task or understand the

text.

MB Megabyte.

K-byte Kilobyte.

K-bit Kilobit.

gsm Grams per one square meter of paper.

menus, modes, options, and commands These use downstyle capitalization (for example, Configuration

menu, Duplex mode, and Raster Graphics command).

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1. PostScript mode

The Xerox laser printer supports Adobe PostScript Level 2

implementation. The operator set includes all Level 2 operators

and a set of Level 1 compatibility operators unique to this

printer. It does not include Display PostScript operators based

on Level 1 or Level 2.

This chapter highlights certain language features specific to the

Xerox implementation of the PostScript Page Description

Language. It is intended for programmers who design host

software for use on the printer or write their own programs in

the PostScript PDL. This chapter does not cover standard

operation and programming of PostScript printers. Refer to the

references below for detailed information:

• PostScript Language Reference Manual, Second Edition,
Adobe Systems Incorporated.

• PostScript Language Supplement, Adobe Systems
Incorporated. Information supplied in this book is a
necessity for designing software or writing PostScript Page
Description Language programs. It can be obtained only
from Adobe Systems Incorporated.

• PostScript Language Printer Addendum, Xerox 4220/MRP,
4230/MRP, Adobe Systems Incorporated. This book is
packaged and shipped with the PostScript Language
Reference Manual.

N Note: The PostScript Language Supplement and PostScript

Language Printer Addendum, Xerox 4220 referred to in this

manual are Version 2015.

Device-dependent features

The PostScript language, although designed to be inherently
device-independent, has provisions for some physical features
that are not common across products. Your printer has
PostScript language features and capabilities that might not be
present in other PostScript output devices. Some of these
features are described in the following pages.

Fonts available with the PostScript Language mode

A total of 65 fonts are included. The printer has 35 internal
Adobe standard typefaces. ISO Latin1 Encoding and Standard
Encoding are supported. The Adobe Type Manager pack
supplied with the printer provides an additional 30 fonts. These
fonts may be downloaded to Random Access Memory (RAM),
the programmable font module, or hard disk, if they are present

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POSTSCRIPT MODE

Downloadable font types

Internal fonts

as options. The Font Report shows typeface examples of internal
and downloaded fonts.

The supported downloadable font types include:

• Adobe Type 0 (composite font)

• Adobe Type 1 (base font)

• Adobe Type 3 (user-defined font)

The following is a list of font typefaces, arranged by family.

• New Century Schoolbook
— NewCenturySchlbk-Roman
— NewCenturySchlbk-Bold
— NewCenturySchlbk-Italic
— NewCenturySchlbk-BoldItalic

• Courier
— Courier
— Courier-Oblique
— Courier-Bold
— Courier-BoldOblique

• Palatino
— Palatino-Roman
— Palatino-Italic
— Palatino-Bold
— Palatino-BoldItalic

• Symbol

• Times
— Times-Roman
— Times-Italic
— Times-Bold
— Times-BoldItalic

• Helvetica
— Helvetica
— Helvetica-Oblique
— Helvetica-Bold
— Helvetica-BoldOblique

• Helvetica Narrow
— Helvetica-Narrow
— Helvetica-Narrow-Oblique
— Helvetica-Narrow-Bold
— Helvetica-Narrow-BoldOblique

• AvantGarde
— AvantGarde-Book
— AvantGarde-BookOblique
— AvantGarde-Demi
— AvantGarde-DemiOblique

• Bookman
— Bookman-Demi
— Bookman-DemiItalic
— Bookman-Light
— Bookman-LightItalic

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Adobe Type Manager fonts

POSTSCRIPT MODE

• ZapfChancery-MediumItalic

• ZapfDingbats

The 30 additional PostScript fonts included with the Adobe Type
Manager are shown below.

• Adobe Caslon
— ACaslon-Italic
— ACaslon-Regular
— ACaslon-Semibold
— ACaslon-SemiboldItalic

• Adobe Garamond
— AGaramond-Bold
— AGaramond-BoldItalic
— AGaramond-Italic
— AGaramond-Regular

• Barmeno
— Barmeno-Bold
— Barmeno-ExtraBold
— Barmeno-Medium
— Barmeno-Regular

• Lithos
— Lithos-Black
— Lithos-Regular

• Tekton
— Tekton
— Tekton-Bold

• Americana
— Americana
— Americana-ExtraBold

• Formata
— Formata-Italic
— Formata-Medium
— Formata-MediumItalic
— Formata-Regular

• Trajan-Bold

• Blackoak

• Carta

• ParkAvenue

• Kaufmann

• Poetica-SuppOrnaments

• WoodtypeOrnaments-Two

• ParisianRegular

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POSTSCRIPT MODE

Page Device setup

Page Device features

Both Level 1 and Level 2 Postscript provide features to set up a
document that meets the requirements of a page description.
The Level 1 implementation provides a set of control operators in
a dictionary called Statusdict. The Level 2 implementation
supports setpagedevice, a device setup operator which specifies
the requirements of a page description and controls standard and
optional printer features.

When calling the operator setpagedevice, a user can specify
parameters such as PageSize and ImageBox for formatting,
NumCopies, Duplex, and MediaColor for page processing;
InputAttributes and OutputAttributes for Input/Output control;
and Policies for handling unsatisfied requirements. Many other
Page Device parameters are supported by your printer. Refer to
the “Device Setup” section in the PostScript Language Printer
Addendum, Xerox 4220/MRP, 4230/MRP, Adobe Systems
Incorporated, for details.

Some of the Page Device features that are unique to the printer
are described in this section. Note the Page Device parameter
used in each case.

Page Size Specified by the PageSize parameter. In PostScript mode, paper

sizes are supported by commands in the data stream. Each
specified size is matched against the available media in the paper
trays. If the specified size is found, the media in that tray is
used. Failure to match a paper size triggers the current PageSize
policy. If paper size is not specified in the data stream, the
media is selected from the default tray or any other tray with the
same size. Table 1-1 shows the page sizes that are supported by
the matching mechanism on the printer.

N Note: The imageable area is the same as the page size.

Table 1-1. Papername values, tray numbers, paper sizes,

and point sizes

Equivalent Level 1

papername

letter (default) 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 8.5 x 11”

a4 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 8.27 x 11.69”

Physical paper
tray supported Paper tray size

216 x 279 mm

210 x 297 mm

Point size
(W by H)

612 x 792

595 x 842

folio 1, 2, 3, 5 8.5 x 13”

216 x 330 mm

legal 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 8.5 x 14”

216 x 356 mm

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612 x 936

612 x 1008

POSTSCRIPT MODE

Table 1-1. Papername values, tray numbers, paper sizes

and point sizes (continued)

Equivalent Level 1

papername

ledger
or

Physical paper
tray supported Paper tray size

1, 2, 3, 5 11 x 17”

279 by 432 mm

11x17
a3 1, 2, 3, 5 11.69 x 16.54”

297 x 420 mm

postcard 5 3.5 x 5.5”

89 x 140 mm

statement 1, 2, 3, 5 5.5 x 8.5”

140 x 216 mm

executivepage 1, 2, 3, 5 7.25 x 10.5”

184 x 267 mm

a6 5 4.13 x 5.83”

105 x 148 mm

a5 1, 2, 3, 5 5.83 x 8.27”

148 x 210 mm

isob5 1, 2, 3, 5 6.93 x 9.84”

176 x 250 mm

monarcenvelope 5 3.88 x 7.5”

98 x 190 mm

Point size
(W by H)

792 x 1224

842 x 1191

252 x 396

396 x 612

522 x 756

298 x 420

420 x 595

499 x 709

279 x 540

com10envelope 5 4.13 x 9.5”

297 x 684

105 x 241 mm

dlenvelope 5 4.33 x 8.66”

312 x 624

110 x 220 mm

c5envelope 5 6.38 x 9.02”

459 x 649

162 x 229 mm

other paper 1, 2, 3 5.35 x 5.95”

N/A
136 x 177 mm
to

11.0 x 16.54”
279 x 417 mm

other paper 5 3.25 x 4.5”

234 x 324
82 x 114 mm
to

to

11.7 x 17.0”
297 x 432 mm

other envelopes 5 3.85 x 3.85”

842 x 1224

277 x 277
98 x 98 mm
to

to

7.0 x 10.2”
178 x 259 mm

504 x 734

Input and output trays Specified by the Input Tray Slot numbers in the InputAttributes

dictionary, and by the Output Tray Slot Numbers or the
OutputType in the OutputAttributes dictionary.

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POSTSCRIPT MODE

Auto-tray switching Specified by the TraySwitch parameter. Auto-tray switching is

implemented if TraySwitch is enabled and a tray runs out of
paper after the job starts. The order in which auto-tray switching
occurs is: 4, 1, 2, 3.

Default tray sequence PostScript searches the tray selection by paper size and media, as

shown in table 1-2. The default sequence in which the size is
searched for is: 4, 1, 2, 3, 5.

Table 1-2. Paper tray assignments for input and output

trays

Output tray

Slot number Input tray

(OutputType name)

0 Tray 1* Top Tray*
1 Tray 1 Face-Up Tray
2 Tray 2 High-Capacity Stacker
3 Tray 3 N/A
4 Tray 4 (High-

N/A

Capacity Feeder)**

5 Tray 5 (Multi-sheet

N/A

Bypass Tray)

*Default
**Default if installed

Duplex mode Specified by the Duplex parameter. In Duplex mode, Tumble

mode can be selected. When Tumble true is selected, the image
on the reverse side of the page is printed upside-down, making it
suitable for top binding. When Tumble false is selected, the
images on the reverse side are of the same orientation, making
the pages suitable for left binding. Top and left can be either the
long or short edge.

With most Level 1 implementations, the tumble effect is not the
same for landscape and portrait jobs. However, for both
orientations, setting Tumble true generates short edge binding,
and setting Tumble false generates long edge binding.

N Note: This differs from the Level 2 use of Tumble or Landscape

pages.
For all duplex jobs, the first duplex page is always printed on the

front of the physical page. If the last page of a job uses only
the first side of the paper, this page is delivered automatically
when Duplex mode is deactivated or a timeout occurs.

Since Level 1 statusdict operators which set Duplex and Tumble
modes persistently are not implemented, these operators cannot
be used in the print data to override the Duplex mode or Tumble
defaults. These defaults can be changed with the Level 2
operator setpagedevice.

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POSTSCRIPT MODE

Line edge enhancement Specified by the PostRenderingEnhance and

PostRenderingEnhanceDetails parameters. The image
enhancement options and the control panel mapping are shown
in table 1-3.

Table 1-3. Mapping of PostRenderingEnhanceDetails to

control panel selection

Key Value Function Control panel display

Revalue 0 LEE off Disable

1 LEE light Light
2 LEE medium Medium (default)
3 LEE dark Dark

Type 10 Constant N/A

Outputfaceup stacking Each output tray accommodates only one method of stacking.

Pages are always stacked face up on the face-up tray and face
down on the top tray and the high-capacity stacker. The
outputfaceup values should correspond to the current output
tray (true for output to the face up tray, and false for output to
the top tray and high-capacity feeder).

Paper offset Specified by the Jog parameter, as shown in table 1-4.

Table 1-4. Mapping of Jog to the printer offset control

panel functions

Integer Function Control panel display

0 Do not jog Disable
1 Jog at device

deactivation

Other setting from host is

active
2 Jog at end of job On job
3 (default) Jog after each set On job and copy

The value of Jog in the page device dictionary is ignored for the
face-up tray. Paper cannot be physically shifted at this output
location.

Multiple copies Specified by the NumCopies parameter. Multiple copies are

delivered uncollated.

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