HP Pcl 5 Manual
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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 LETTER 2550 3300 2400 3300 75 0 50 150 Legal List 1 2550 4200 2400 4200 75 0 50 150 LEDGER 3300 5100 3150 5100 75 0 50 150 EXECUTIVE 2175 3150 2025 3150 75 0 50 150 A4 2480 3507 2338 3507 71 0 50 150 A3 3507 4960 3365 4960 71 0 50 150 COM-10 1237 2850 1087 2850 75 0 50 150 MONARCH 1162 2250 1012 2250 75 0 50 150 C5 1913 2704 1771 2704 71 0 50 150 B5 2078 2952 1936 2952 71 0 50 150 DL 1299 2598 1157 2598 71 0 50 150
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 2078 2834 2078 59 0 50 150 DL 2598 1299 2480 1299 59 0 50 150
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 frame for HP-GL/2. Characters are clipped if they fall across a margin (left, right, top, and bottom). Refer to “Text Area” in Chapter 5 for additional information.
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 in Chapter 12, Macros). Default settings refer to the settings programmed into the printer at the factory or settings selected using the control panel. The term “default” simply refers to the settings the printer uses unless printer commands select other settings. Each time a job is printed, some of the printer’s feature settings may be changed from their default values to produce the desired printed output for that job. After the job prints, the job-specific feature settings are longer be required, since the next job is likely to have different output requirements. The next job should clear all previous job settings by performing a reset. This allows a job to start with the default settings as a known base set, and vary only those settings that are needed. Starting with the default environment at the beginning of each print job eliminates the need to set every feature each time a job is run. NoteThe print environment features presented in this chapter are for a variety of HP LaserJet printers. Not all of the features are applicable to every printer. To identify variations and default settings for specific printers, refer to Chapter 3 of the PCL 5 Comparison Guide.
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 lists typical PCL print environment features, and Table 3-2 lists typical HP-GL/2 print environment features. Note he factory default settings for the printer features are not shown here, since they differ depending on the printer model. To identify variations and default settings for specific printers, refer to Chapter 3 of the PCL 5 Comparison Guide. Table 3-1 Factory Default Print Environment Features – PCL Context JOB CONTROL FONTS 1 Number of Copies2Symbol Set23 Duplex2Spacing Binding 2, 3Pitch4 Registration Height5 Tr a y2Style Manual Feed 2Stroke Weight User-defined Units Typeface Underlining Mode 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 selected by the user from the printer’s control panel for these items. 3. Selectable from the printer control panel if duplex is selected. 4. Selectable from the printer’s control panel if a fixed-space scalable font has been selected as the user default. 5. Selectable from the printer’s control panel if a proportional scalable font has been selected as the user default.
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 Picture Frame Anchor Point Source Transparency Mode HP-GL/2 plot Horizontal Size Pattern Transparency Mode HP-GL/2 Plot Vertical Size Pattern Reference Point MACRO Pattern Rotation Macro ID 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 selected by the user from the printer’s control panel for these items. 3. Selectable from the printer control panel if duplex is selected. 4. Selectable from the printer’s control panel if a fixed-space scalable font has been selected as the user default. 5. Selectable from the printer’s control panel if a proportional scalable font has been selected as the user default. Table 3-1 Factory Default Print Environment Features – PCL Context (continued)
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 selected by the user from the printer’s control panel for these items. 3. Selectable from the printer control panel if duplex is selected. 4. Selectable from the printer’s control panel if a fixed-space scalable font has been selected as the user default. 5. Selectable from the printer’s control panel if a proportional scalable font has been selected as the user default. 1.2. 3. 4. 5. Table 3-1 Factory Default Print Environment Features – PCL Context (continued)
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 Symbol Mode Extra Horizontal Space Fill Type Extra Vertical Space User-defined Line Type Character Fill Mode Anchor Corner Label Origin User-defined Fill Types Label Terminator PALETTE EXTENSION Transparent Data Mode Number of Pens Primary Font ID Transparency Mode Secondary Font ID Screened Vector Scalable or Bitmap Font CONFIGURATION & STATUS GROUP VECTOR GROUP Scale Mode Plotting Mode Window Pen State Coordinate System Orientation P1, P2
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 Number, Pitch1 or Point Size1) zDuplex/Simplex zBinding Edge2 z Tr a y zPaper (Page Size: Paper and Envelopes) zManual Feed zOrientation zSymbol Set NotesRefer to “Horizontal Motion Index (HMI) Command” in Chapter 5 for the implications of setting the user default font (source, number, pitch or point size). Refer to the printer User’s Manual for instructions on how to select these user defaults from the control panel. The PJL (Printer Job Language) “SET” command overrides the PCL user default environment for the duration of a PJL job. If PJL is not active, then the PCL user default environment has precedence. Refer to “PCL Commands” in Chapter 1 for more information. 1. For scalable typefaces: fixed-space typefaces are selected only by pitch; and proportionally-spaced typefaces are selected only by point size. 2. Selectable only if duplex is On.