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1 =  Printing System remains in mode A even when the IP instruction includes a nega-
tive parameter value. 
Enhance Mode (bit 3) 
This bit supports the enhance mode of HP 7550A and HP 758X plotters. 
0 =  Normal mode (HP 7550A standard mode and HP 758X emulation mode). 
1 =  Enhance mode (HP 7550A enhance mode and HP 758X standard mode). 
The enhance mode should be turned on when the printing system uses the HP 758X 
mode. The enhance mode affects the KC-GL IW (Input Window), OW (Output Win-
dow), and UC (plot User-defined Ch aracter) instructions as follows: 
IW: User units are used for specifying the parameters in scaling. 
OW: Window outputs are made in user units in scaling. 
UC: Values for the pen control,  increments in x- and y-coordinates, the width and height 
of characters differ fro m the normal (non-enhan ce) mode as follows. 
Page Orientation (bit 4) 
This bit defines page orientation. 
0 =  Landscape
1 =  Observes the FRPO C1 value. 
Default Cursor Position (bit 5) 
This bit defines the cursor position for the page at power-up. 
0 =  Upper-left corner of the page (X
min, Ymax)
1 =  Lower-left corner of the page (X
min, Ymin) 
Pen Selection 
On an actual plotter, pen thickness and color are selected by physically installing pens. 
On the printing system, the pen thickness is established with a PRESCRIBE command, 
or by a simple front-panel operation. 
Format 
!R! FRPO G n, xx; EXIT; 
Parameters 
n: 
pen number:
1 =  pen 1
2 =  pen 2 
3 =  pen 3 
4 =  pen 4 
5 =  pen 5 
6 =  pen 6  Pen down Pen up x/y increment Char. width Char. Height 
Normal mode ≥99 ≤ -99 -98 to +98  6 grids 16 grids 
Enhance mode ≥9999 ≤ -9999 -9998 to +9998 48 grids 64 grids
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7 =  pen 7 
8 =  pen 8 
xx: 
Line-width (in dots): 0 to 99 (0 - line not printed) 
Positions in the plot area can be defined as  plotter units or user units. These units are 
explained next. 
Note
Since the pen thickness is measured in the unit of  dot, printing an object in the 600-dpi res-
olution will result in the thickness of lines being half that expected in the 300-dpi resolu-
tion. To avoid this, switch the printing resolution to 300 dpi using  the FRPO N8 command 
or, temporarily, using th e PRESCRIBE RESL command. Alternat ively, if you need to use the 
600-dpi resolution, increase th e pen thickness to the double. 
Reducing Data Larger Than A2 Size
The KC-GL can print the data of paper sizes larger than A2 size reducing it onto a paper 
size specified using the SPSZ command. Reduction of data is achieved by the FRPO J9 
parameter or from the printing system’s control panel. See below. 
Format 
!R! FRPO J9, x; EXIT; 
x : 
data size:
0 =  no reduction
1 =  A2
2 =  A1
3 =  A0
4 =  B3
5 =  B2
6 =  B1
7 =  B0 
Plotter Units and User Units 
Plotter Units 
The plot area is subdivided into a grid with 0.025-mm steps. Each step is a plotter unit: 
the smallest unit of plotting motion. One millimeter corresponds to approximately 40 
plotter units. In the plot area, you can specify positions in plotter units from –2
23 to 
223–1 (in the PA instruction). When using plotter units, only integer values are valid. 
User Units 
The Scale instruction (SC) esta blishes a system of user units in the plot area by specify-
ing the coordinates of two scaling points (P1 a nd P2). Parameters of the Scale instruction 
can use integer values from –2
23 to 223–1; any digits to the right of the decimal place will 
be ignored. (Plot instructions use the same  range of parameter values, but digits to the 
right of the decimal point are valid.) If designating  0, 0 and 1 , 1  as scaling points, all data 
will be real numbers between  0 and 1. 
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Setting the Scaling Points 
At power-up, scaling point P1 will be in the lower left corner of the paper, the default 
plot position. Point  P2 is always diagonally opposite to P1. These two points define the 
diagonal of a rectangle, which by default is centered on the paper. P1 and P2 can be 
moved by an instruction which defines any rectangle, independent of the actual paper 
size. 
The default positions of the scaling points in modes A and B are listed at the end of this 
section as  Coordinate Values . 
Sample KC-GL Program 
The following file draws circles according to  the KC-GL instructions. The result appears 
in  Figure 7. 30.  on page 102. 
IN; “Initialize plotter”
IP0,0,400,400; “P1 and P2: 1-cm square
1”
SC0,1,0,1; “Scale: user unit = 1 cm”
DT ;
SP1; “Select pen 1”
PA10,19; “Move pen”
CI.1;PR0,-.1; “Draw four circles”
CI.2;PR0,-.2;
CI.4;PR0,-.4;
CI.8;PR0,-.8;
SP2; “Select pen 2”
CI1.6;PR0,-1.6; “Draw two circles”
CI3.2;PR0,-3.2;
SP8; “Select pen 8”
CI.1;PR.5,-.5; “Draw circle”
SP2; “Select pen 2”
CS0;SI.2,.3;LBCURSOR * ;  Print label
2”
SP; 
1This instruction locates P1 at  0, 0 and P2 at 400, 400 in plotter units. 400 plotter units=1 cm (0.025 mm x 400).2ETX (End of Text, character code  03) is required as a terminator.
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Figure 7. 30.  KC-GL Sample Program 
  
Plotter Status Information 
When the RS-232C interface is used, in addition to receiving data, the plotter (printing 
system) can return information such as the current pen position, pen status, and error 
numbers. This return information applies to the following KC-GL instructions. 
All of these instructions use the same syntax and must be followed immediately by a ter-
minator. They use no parameters. 
The functions of these instructions appear on the following pages. The last ASCII char-
acter sent by the plotter (printing system) in response to the instruction is a terminator, 
which will be designated here by the symbol TERM. The terminator is actually a car-
riage return unless changed by the ESC.M operator.  Instruction Description 
OA
Output Actual position and pen status 
OC Output Commanded position and pen status 
OE Output Error 
OF Output Factors 
OH Output Hard-clip limits 
OI Output Identification 
OL Output Label length
OO Output Options 
OP Output P1 and P2 
OS Output Status 
OT Output carousel Type
OW Output Window
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OA [Output Actual position and pen status] 
The plotter returns the x- and y-coordinates of the current pen position and indicates 
whether the pen is currently up or down. This information is given by ASCII-coded inte-
gers in the following format: 
X, Y, P TERM 
X:  x-coordinate in absolute plotter units 
Y:  y-coordinate in absolute plotter units 
P:  0 if the pen is up; 1 if the pen is down 
OC [Output Commanded po sition and pen status] 
The plotter returns the x- and y-coordinates and pen status for the last valid pen position-
ing instruction. The pen position and status  are ASCII-coded in the same way as the OA 
instruction. Coordinate values are given in plo tter units if scaling is off, or user units if 
scaling is on. 
OE [Output Error] 
The plotter returns a decimal error number  for the instruction executed immediately 
before the OE instruction. The error code  is converted to a non-negative ASCII-coded 
integer whose identity is given in the following table. 
OF [Output Factors] 
This instruction returns the number of pl otter units per millimeter on each coordinate 
axis, as follows: 
40, 40 TERM 
This response indicates that plotter units  are equal to 0.025 mm on both the x- and y-
axes. The actual number of plotter units per millimeter is approximately 40. 
OH [Output Hard-clip limits] 
This instruction returns the lower left and upper right limiting coordinates of the plot 
area, in the following format: 
X
LL, YLL, XUR, YUR TERM 
LL: lower left 
UR: upper right  Error Number Description 
0
No error 
1 Instruction not recognized 
2 Wrong number of parameters 
3 Illegal parameter 
4 (Reserved) 
5 Unknown character set 
6 Plot position overflow 
7( Rese rv ed )
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OI [Output Identification] 
This instruction returns a character string indicating the plotter model being emulated, as 
follows: 
OL [Output Label length] 
This instruction returns information on the cont ents of the label buffer. This may be used 
together with the BL instruction for accessi ng the necessary space for the buffered label 
before printing it. 
length, characters, linefeeds, TERM 
OO [Output Options] 
This instruction returns eight ASCII-coded in tegers separated by commas. The integers 
indicate plotter options supported by the printing system, as follows: 
OP [Output P1 and P2] 
This instruction returns the coordinate values of the current scaling points P1 and P2. 
The coordinates are given in plotter unit s by ASCII-coded integers, as follows: 
P1x, P1y, P2x, P2y TERM 
KC-GL option 
(FRPO G0)
Plotter model 
Mode A 7550A TERM
Mode B 7596A TERM
length  The length of the longest line in the buf fered label in character plot cell spaces. 
characters  An integer representing the number of  printing characters and spaces in the 
longest line of the buffered label. A  backspace is counted as –1, whereas a 
character with automatic  backspace counts as zero. 
linefeeds An integer representing the net number of linefeeds that will occur when the 
buffered label is drawn. An inversed line feed (VT) counts as –1, and a line-
feed (LF) counts as +1. 
Buffer allocation
Polygon instruction
Arc and circle plotting instructions are supported.
Pen selection is supported.
Pen is not down until the paper feeding completes 
in auto-feed mode.
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OS [Output Status] 
This instruction returns an integer from 0 to 255 giving one byte of status information, as 
follows: status TERM 
The following table describes the individual bits in the status byte. After powered up or 
an IN instruction, bit positions 3 and 4 turn on making the bit value to be 24. Bit position 
3 is cleared subsequently after delivering the status. 
OT [Output carousel Type] 
This instruction delivers information on th e current carousel type and stall occupancy. 
This may be used to determine those information in a remote location. 
OT TERM 
Response : 
type, map TERM 
The current carousel type and its pen map ar e delivered as 2 ASCII integers, each sepa-
rated by comma. The type fiel d can contain the values –1 through 4, which have the fol-
lowing values:  Bit Position Bit Value Description 
0 1 The pen is down. 
1 2 P1 or P2 has been changed. This bit is cleared when actual P1 and  P2 values are read via the RS-2 32C interface, or when the IN 
instruction is executed. 
2 4 A digitized point is ready for output. This bit is cleared when the  point is output via the RS-232C in terface, or when the IN instruc-
tion is executed. 
3 8 Initialized. This bit is cleared wh en a status byte is output via the 
RS-232C interface, or when the  IN instruction is executed. 
4 16 Ready to receive next data. 
5 32 Error. This bit is cleared when an  error number is output via the RS-
232C interface, or when the  IN instruction is executed. 
6 64 SRQ was set. 
7 128 (Reserved)
Bit value when stall is occupied Pen stall
11
22
43
84
16 5
32 6
64 7
128 8
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OW [Output Window] 
This instruction returns the x- and y-coordinates of two diagonally opposite corners of 
the current plottable area. Four  ASCII-coded integers indicating the lower left and upper 
right corner coordinates are returned by using the following format: 
X
LL, YLL, XUR, YUR, TERM 
LL: lower left 
UR: upper right 
Device-Control Instructions 
KC-GL uses device-control instructions to retu rn buffer status information and other sta-
tus information from the printing system vi a the RS-232C interface. Status information 
cannot be output on the parallel interface. If  device-control instructions are received via 
the parallel interface,  they are ignored. 
The device-control instructions fo r status output appear below. 
Output Buffer Space (ESC.B) 
This instruction returns 0 if the receive buffer  is full, and 1024 if the receive buffer is 
empty. 
Output Extended Error (ESC.E) 
This instruction normally returns 0, if an error has not occurred, and returns 15 if a fram-
ing error, parity error, or  overrun error has occurred. 
Output Buffer Size Label (ESC.L) 
This instruction always returns the value 1024. 
Output Extended Status (ESC.O) 
This instruction returns printing system status information regarding: 
• On-line status 
• Cover open 
• Paper empty 
• Paper jam 
• Buffer full 
The following table describes this status in formation.The paper feed source is the inter-
nal cassette at all time. A complete list  of device-control instructions appear in Device-
Control Instructions  on page 113. 
Table 7.31.  Status Information
Response Description 
1 The buffer is full. 
9 The buffer is empty (normal). 
17 The buffer is full and the printing system is off-line. 
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Fonts and Symbol Sets in KC-GL 
KC-GL uses a special stroke font. The fonts employed in the other emulations cannot be 
used in KC-GL. The default height and width of the stroke font vary depending on the 
paper size. The following character sets  are available for the KC-GL emulation.
25 The buffer is empty and the printing system is off-line. 
33 The buffer is full with the printing system under one of the following conditions: 
cover open, paper empty, or paper jam. 
41 The buffer is empty with the printing system under one of the following con- ditions: cover open, paper empty, or paper jam.
Table 7.32.  KC-GL Fonts and Symbol Sets No. Symbol Set ISO No. 
0/10 ANSI ASCII  006
1/11 HP 9825 Character Set –
2/12 French/German –
3/13 Scandinavian –
4/14 Spanish/Latin American –
6/16 JIS ASCII 014 
7/17 Roman Extensions –
8/18 Katakana 013 
9/19 ISO IRV (International Reference Version) 002 
30/40 ISO Swedish 010 
31/41 ISO Swedish For Names 011 
32/42 ISO Norwegian Version 1 060 
33/43 ISO German 021 
34/44 ISO French 025 
35/45 ISO United Kingdom 004 
36/46 ISO Italian 015 
37/47 ISO Spanish 017 
38/48 ISO Portuguese 016 
39/49 ISO Norwegian Version 2 061
Table 7.31.  Status Information
Response Description 
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KC-GL Symbol Sets ANSI ASCII (0)Roman Extensions (7)
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