HP Pcl 5 Manual

ENPrintable Area 2-7
Printable Area 
The printable area is the area of the physical page in which the 
printer is able to place a dot. The physical page refers to the size of 
the media (letter, legal, etc.) installed in the printer.
The relationship between physical page, logical page, default picture 
frame, and printable area is defined in Table 2-1 and Table 2-2.
 
Table 2-1 Portrait Logical Page & Printable Area Boundaries
DIMENSIONS
 (at 300 DPI - double for 600 DPI)
PAPER SIZE A B C D E F G H...

2-8   The PageEN
Table 2-2 Landscape Logical Page & Printable Area Boundaries
DIMENSIONS
 (at 300 DPI - double for 600 DPI)
PAPER SIZE A B C D E F G H
LETTER 3300 2550 3180 2550 60 0 50 150
Legal List 1  4200 2550 4080 2550 60 0 50 150
LEDGER 5100 3300 4980 3300 60 0 50 150
EXECUTIVE 3150 2175 3030 2175 60 0 50 150
A4 3507 2480 3389 2480 59 0 50 150
A3 4960 3507 4842 3507 59 0 50 150
COM-10 2850 1237 2730 1237 60 0 50 150
MONARCH 2250 1162 2130 1162 60 0 50 150
C5 2704 1913 2586 1913 59 0 50 150
B5  2952...

ENPrintable Area 2-9 The HP LaserJet printers perform pixel-level clipping. When printing 
characters or graphics, if any por tion of the character cell or graphic is 
outside the printable area, only that portion outside the printable area 
is clipped (see Figure 2-4).
Figure 2-4 Printable Area Character Cell Positioning 
NotesPixel level clipping can also occur at the logical page for PCL when 
the page is positioned using the Left Registration command.
Pixel level clipping also occurs at the picture...

2-10   The PageEN 

ENIntroduction  3-1
3
The Print 
Environment
Introduction 
The group of all of the printer’s current feature settings, 
collectively, is referred to as the print environment. The printer 
maintains four print environments: the Factory Default 
Environment, the User Default Environment, the Modified 
Print Environment and the Overlay Environment. This chapter 
describes the Factory Default Environment, the User Default 
Environment, and the Modified Print Environment (the Overlay 
Environment is described...

3-2   The Print EnvironmentEN
Factory Default Environment
A factory default is a feature setting programmed into the printer at 
the factory. The group of all of the printer’s feature settings set to their 
factory settings is referred to as the Factory Default Environment. 
These features are described in this manual. Since the HP-GL/2 
features are used for HP-GL/2 operation only, the print environment 
features are separated, for convenience, into two lists or contexts: 
PCL and HP-GL/2. Table 3-1...

ENFactory Default Environment 3-3 PAGE CONTROL  FONT MANAGEMENT
Print Direction  Font ID
Orientation
2Character Code
Page Size
2Symbol Set ID
Paper Source RASTER GRAPHICS
Vertical Motion Index
2  Left Graphics Margin
Horizontal Motion Index
2Resolution
Top Margin  Compression Mode
Text Length  Raster Height
Left Margin  Raster Width
Right Margin  Raster Graphics Presentation 
Mode
Perforation Skip PICTURE FRAME
Line Termination  Picture Frame Width
PRINT MODEL Picture Frame Height
Current Pattern...

3-4   The Print EnvironmentEN
RECTANGULAR AREA FILL TROUBLESHOOTING
Horizontal Rectangle Size  End-of-Line Wrap
Vertical Rectangle Size  Display Functions
Pattern (Area Fill) ID 
STATUS READBACK 
Current Location Type 
Current Location Unit   
1.  The font characteristics are determined by the default font. The default font can 
be the factory default font or the user-selected default font from the printer’s 
control panel or from a font cartridge containing a default font.
2.  User default values may be...

ENFactory Default Environment 3-5 Table 3-2 Factory Default Print Environment Features – 
HP-GL/2 Context
CHARACTER GROUP  POLYGON GROUP
Symbol Set  Polygon Buffer
Font Spacing  Polygon Mode
Pitch LINE AND FILL ATTRIBUTE 
GROUP
Height Line Type
Posture  Line Type Repeat Length
Stroke Weight  Line Cap
Typeface Line Join
Character Direction  Miter Limit
Character Direction Mode Pen Turret
Character Size Mode  Pen Width
Character Width  Pen Width Selection Mode
Character Height  Selected Pen
Character Slant...

3-6   The Print EnvironmentEN
User Default Environment 
There are several PCL features in the printer for which user defaults 
may be selected from the printer’s control panel. User default settings 
are stored in the User Default Environment and are retained even if 
the printer is turned OFF. Some of these features are listed below 
(for a complete set of the control panel user default features refer to 
Chapter 3 of the PCL 5 Comparison Guide.)
zNumber of Copies 
zFont Selection (Font Source, Font...