HP PCL 5 Manuel utilisateur

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HP Part No. 5961-0509

Printed in USA

First Edition - October 1992

PCL 5 Printer LanguageTechnical

Reference Manual

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Notice

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information contained in this document is subject to change without

notice.

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Printing History

This manual was created using HP Tag/Vectra software on an

HP Vectra Personal Computer. The body text is printed in Helvetica

fonts. The camera-ready copy was printed on an HP LaserJet IIISi

printer with Resolution Enhancement technology (REt) and was then

reproduced using standard offset printing.

First Edition – October 1992

NOTICE

This document is the current edition of the technical reference manual for PCL

5 and earlier printers. It replaces the September 1990 edition of the HP PCL 5

Printer Language Technical Reference Manual (p/n 33459-90903). If you have

ordered another PCL Technical Reference document, this manual and the PCL

5 Comparison Guide are the updated replacement documents.

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Trademark Credits

Intellifont and Garth Graphic are U.S. registered trademarks of Agfa

Division, Miles Inc. CG Triumvirate and Shannon are trademarks of

Agfa Division, Miles Inc. CG Bodoni, CG Century Schoolbook, CG

Goudy Old Style, CG Melliza, Microstyle, CG Omega, CG Palacio,

CG Times and CG Trump Mediaeval are products of Agfa Division,

Miles Inc. CG Times, a product of Agfa Division, Miles Inc., is based

on Times New Roman, a U.S. registered trademark of Monotype

Corporation plc. PCL, and Vectra are U.S. registered trademarks of

Hewlett-Packard Company. Resolution Enhancement is a trademark

of Hewlett-Packard Company. IBM is a registered trademark of

International Business Machines Corporation. Microsoft, Windows,

and MS-DOS are U.S. registered trademarks of Microsoft

Corporation. TrueType and Macintosh are registered trademarks of

Apple Computer, Inc. PostScript is a registered trademark of Adobe

Systems, Inc. Centronics is a U.S. registered trademark of Centronics

Corporation. ITC Avant Garde Gothic, ITC Benguiat, ITC Bookman,

ITC Cheltenham, ITC Galliard, ITC Korinna, ITC Lubalin Graph, ITC

Souvenir, ITC Zapf Chancery and ITC Zapf Dingbats are U.S.

registered trademarks of International Typeface Corporation. ITC

Tiffany is a trademark of International Typeface Corporation. Futura is

a U.S. registered trademark of Fundicion Tipografica Neufville, S.A.

Serifa is a trademark of Fundicion Tipografica Neufville, S.A. Letraset

is a registered trademark of Esselte Pendaflex Corporation. Revue

and University Roman are trademarks of Esselte Pendaflex

Corporation. Helvetica and Times Roman are trademarks of Linotype

AG and its subsidiaries. Univers is a U.S. registered trademark of

Linotype AG and its subsidiaries. Antique Olive is a trademark of

Monsieur Marcel OLIVE. Arial and Gill Sans are registered

trademarks of The Monotype Corporation plc.

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Inside This Manual

What You Can Learn From This Manual

Hewlett-Packard has developed a standard set of printer features for

use in all HP printers. Printer features are accessed through the

corresponding commands of Hewlett-Packard’s PCL language. This

manual describes the PCL 5 printer language. This includes

descriptions of the commands available for Hewlett-Packard PCL 5

LaserJet printers and the basic requirements of PCL language

programming. With the release of new LaserJet family printers there

are new features added which supplement the existing PCL base set.

Features of future printer releases are not covered in this document.

The new features are described in the latest version of the PCL 5

Comparison Guide. Programmers should familiarize themselves with

the information provided in the PCL 5 Comparison Guide in addition

to the information in this document.

Experienced Users

This manual was written for people with some programming

experience. Many of the concept discussions assume some

programming knowledge.

When writing a PCL language program, you should know the PCL

language concepts and commands presented in this manual, and

should be aware of the differences in implementation of the PCL 5

printer language for the various HP LaserJet printers, as described in

the PCL 5 Comparison Guide.

Non-technical Users

Many software applications (word processing software, spreadsheets,

etc.) allow you to embed printer commands as escape sequences in

the body of your documents. This manual presents the full syntax and

explanation of all the commands supported by PCL 5 LaserJet

printers. These commands enable you to take advantage of the

LaserJet printer’s advanced feature set.

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Note Since actual implementation of printer commands within software

applications varies from package to package, specific examples are

not given. For examples of printer command usage with many popular

software packages, refer to HP’s Software Application Notes,

provided with the printer. The most current versions of software

application notes can be obtained through the HP Forum on

CompuServe, by fax using the HP FIRST fax service, or through

HP’s literature distribution. Refer to Appendix A for more information.

Chapter Summaries

A brief description of each chapter is provided below.

Chapter 1 - Introduction to HP PCL

This chapter gives a brief history of the development of the PCL

language, describes the PCL language levels (architecture), and

describes the PCL command structure (control codes and escape

sequences).

Chapter 2 - The Page

This chapter introduces the idea of the logical page and identifies the

area in which printing can occur. It also describes the PCL coordinate

system and the HP-GL/2 picture frame.

Chapter 3 - The Print Environment

This chapter introduces the printer’s feature settings, collectively, as

the print environment. It includes descriptions of the factory default

environment, user default environment, and the modified print

environment. The effect of printer reset functions is also described.

Chapter 4 - PCL Job Control Commands

This chapter describes the commands which provide job control.

Job control commands are usually grouped together and sent at the

beginning of a job. Job control includes restoration of the User Default

Environment, selection of the number of copies of each page to be

printed, duplex print commands, and unit of measure specification.

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Chapter 5 - Page Control Commands

This chapter describes the commands providing page format control.

Page format control allows you to select the page source, size,

orientation, margins, and text spacing.

Chapter 6 - Cursor Positioning

This chapter describes how to position the cursor within the logical

page.

Chapter 7 - Fonts

This chapter describes basic font information including font

characteristics.

Chapter 8 - PCL Font Selection

This chapter describes how to select a font for printing using the font

characteristics commands. The underline feature is described at the

end of the chapter.

Chapter 9 - Font Management

This chapter describes font management which provides

mechanisms for downloading and manipulating soft fonts.

Chapter 10 - User-Defined Symbol Sets

This chapter describes the capability of some PCL 5 printers to

enable users to define their own symbol sets for special needs.

Chapter 11 - Soft Font Creation

This chapter describes how to organize font/character data for

downloading to the printer.

Chapter 12 - Macros

This chapter describes macro commands which store a block of PCL

commands and data which can be used repeatedly without redefining

the block. The macro function reduces the number of commands that

must be sent to the printer.

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Chapter 13 - The PCL Print Model

This chapter describes the PCL print model which allows for special

effects when printing.

Chapter 14 - PCL Rectangular Area Fill Graphics

This chapter describes how to define and fill a rectangular area with

one of the predefined PCL patterns, or with a user-defined pattern.

Chapter 15 - Raster Graphics

This chapter describes how to download raster graphics to the printer,

and includes various techniques for reducing the amount of data

needed to define the raster image.

Chapter 16 - Status Readback

This chapter describes the PCL status readback features. Status

readback enables you to obtain PCL status information from the

printer, such as: available printer (user) memory, a list of fonts and

symbol sets, and the ID numbers of macros and user-defined

patterns.

Chapter 17 - An Introduction to HP-GL/2 Vector

Graphics

This chapter introduces basic information for HP-GL/2. It lists the

vector graphics commands, and describes the HP-GL/2 command

syntax. An overview of several important topics is also provided, such

as the PCL Picture Frame concept, scaling, pen status and location,

and absolute vs. relative pen movement.

Chapter 18 - The Picture Frame

This chapter describes how to set up an area on the page for printing

vector graphics (the PCL Picture Frame). It discuses the commands

necessary to define and position the picture frame, along with the

commands used to enter and exit HP-GL/2 mode.

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