HP PCL 5 User manual

PCL 5 Comparison Guide

for the

HP LaserJet III

HP LaserJet IIID

HP LaserJet IIISi

HP LaserJet IIIP

HP LaserJet 4 Family

HP LaserJet 4000 series

HP Color LaserJet

HP Color LaserJet 5/5M

HP LaserJet 5 Family

HP LaserJet 6 Family

HP DeskJet 1200C

HP DeskJet 1600C

Printers

Edition 1

E1097

HP Part No. 5021-0378

Printed in U.S.A. 10/97

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Printing

Information This manual was created using text formatting software on

a personal computer. The camera-ready copy was printed

direct to film and reproduced using standard offset printing.

Trademark Credits Intellifont is a U.S. registered trademark of Agfa Division,

Miles Incorporated. CG Times is a product of Agfa

Corporation, AGFA Compugraphic Division. LaserJet, PCL,

DeskJet, Vectra, and Resolution Enhancement are U.S.

registered trademarks of Hewlett-Packard Company. IBM

is a registered trademark of International Business

Machines Corporation. Wingdings, MS-Mincho, and

MS-Gothic are trademarks, and Microsoft, Windows, and

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

Corporation. Centronics is a U.S. registered trademark of

Centronics Corporation. ITC Zapf Dingbats is a U.S.

registered trademark of International Typeface Corpora-

tion. 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. PostScript and the PostScript logo are

registered trademarks of Adobe Systems, Inc. in the U.S.

and other countries. Arial, Times New Roman and

Monotype are U.S. registered trademarks of Monotype

Corporation plc. Macintosh is a registered trademark and

TrueType is a trademark of Apple Computer, Inc. ESC/P is

a trademark of Seiko-Epson Corporation.

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Conventions This manual uses the following conventions:

Bold indicates a term defined in the glossary.

Italic refers to a related document, or is used for

emphasis.

The cursive letter lis used in some examples to

distinguish the letter “l” from the numeral “1” (one).

A slash zero 0is used in some examples and escape

sequences to distinguish the letter “O” from the number

“0”.

0x XX represents a hexadecimal number (XX).

The ~character indicates that the current line of code is

a continuation of the previous line.

Note Notes contain important information set off from the text.

Contents

1 Printer Features

PCL Feature Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-3

PCL 5 Technical Reference Manual Corrections . . . . . . . 1-5

PCL Feature Support Matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-6

Printable Area . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1-26

2 Printer-Specific Differences

HP LaserJet III and IIID Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-1

HP LaserJet IIISi Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2

HP LaserJet IIIP Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-2

Raster Graphics Adaptive Compression (IIIP) . . . . . . . 2-4

HP LaserJet 4 Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-4

Configuration Command (AppleTalk) . . . . . . . . . . . 2-7

HP LaserJet 4Si Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-10

HP LaserJet 4L Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-11

HP LaserJet 4ML Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-12

Logical Operations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-13

Logical Operations and Transparency Interactions . . . . 2-15

Logical Operation Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-17

Pixel Placement Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-25

Pixel Placement Command (HP-GL/2) . . . . . . . . . . . 2-28

Merge Control Command (HP-GL/2) . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-29

HP LaserJet 4P and 4MP Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-31

HP LaserJet 4PJ Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-32

Text Parsing Method Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-33

Character Text Path Direction Command . . . . . . . . . 2-34

Font Header Format 16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-35

New Font Format Header Segments . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-36

Description of Font Header Segments . . . . . . . . . . . 2-37

HP LaserJet 4PJ Programming Tips . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-49

Paper Size . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-60

HP LaserJet 4 Plus and 4M Plus Printers . . . . . . . . . . 2-60

HP LaserJet 4V and 4MV Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-62

Font Header Format 16 Bitmap Font Support . . . . . . . . 2-63

Font Header Format . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-63

Character Definition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-68

Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-69

HP Color LaserJet Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-70

AppleTalk Configuration Command . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-71

HP LaserJet 4LJ Pro Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-72

HP LaserJet 4LC Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-72

HP LaserJet 5P and 5MP Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-73

HP LaserJet 5L Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-74

HP LaserJet 5Si and 5SiMx Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-75

Paper (Media) Source Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-76

Output Bin Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-78

Alphanumeric ID Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-79

HP DeskJet 1200C Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-85

Updated Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-86

Enter HP-GL/2 Mode Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-87

Media Type Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-88

Print Quality Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-89

Negative Motion Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-90

HP DeskJet 1600C Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-91

HP LaserJet 5 and 5M Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-97

Text Parsing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-97

Two-Byte HP-GL/2 Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-98

Label Mode Command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-98

Contents-2

Vertical Writing with Proportional Fonts . . . . . . . . . 2-101

HP Color LaserJet 5 and 5M Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-103

HP LaserJet 6P/ 6MP Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-105

HP LaserJet 5Si Mopier . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-105

HP LaserJet 6L Printer . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-106

HP LaserJet 4000 series Printers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2-106

3 Internal Typefaces/Fonts and Symbol Sets

Bitmap Fonts and Symbol Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-2

Scalable Typefaces and Symbol Sets . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-3

Typeface Selection Differences . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3-12

4 Print Environment

5 Memory Usage

Operation of ADC and MEt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

Image Adapt . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-2

Additional MEt Features . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-3

ADC and MEt Notes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5-4

Recommendations For Sending Data to the Printer . . . . 5-4

Raster Graphics Adaptive Compression (Method 5) . . . . . 5-7

A Printer Commands

B Internal Symbol Set Charts

ISO Substitution Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-21

Conversion Table . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . B-22

C Symbol Set and Typeface Codes

D MSL/Unicode Symbol Indexes

Index

Contents-3

Contents-4

Printer Features

Introduction Hewlett-Packard printers which support the PCL 5 printer

language contain slightly different feature sets, each

suitable for that printer’s intended use. Each printer

implements minor variations of PCL 5 as a result of those

differences. With new printer releases, new features may be

added with new commands and/or PCL operations which

require documentation.

The purpose of this guide is to identify the differences in

the implementation of the PCL 5 Printer Language for

different HP LaserJet and DeskJet printers, as compared to

that described in the PCL 5 Printer Language Technical

Reference Manual. This guide describes new commands and

exceptions to existing commands unique to the printers, as

well as internal typeface/font support and print

environment settings.

Feature Set 1-1

This guide covers the following HP LaserJet printers:

Introduction Date

LaserJet III March 1990

LaserJet IIID September 1990

LaserJet IIISi February 1991

LaserJet IIIP May 1991

LaserJet 4, 4M October 1992

LaserJet 4Si, 4SiMx April 1993

LaserJet 4L, 4ML May 1993

LaserJet 4P, 4MP September 1993

LaserJet 4 Plus, 4M Plus May 1994

LaserJet 4PJ May 1994

LaserJet 4V, 4MV September 1994

DeskJet 1200C May 1993

DeskJet 1200/PS May 1993

Color LaserJet September 1994

LaserJet 4LC March 1995

DeskJet 1600C March 1995

LaserJet 4LJ Pro May 1995

LaserJet 5P, 5MP May 1995

LaserJet 5L September 1995

LaserJet 5Si, 5SiMx November 1995

Color LaserJet 5, 5M March 1996

LaserJet 5, 5M April 1996

LaserJet 5Si Mopier October 1996

LaserJet 6P, 6MP October 1996

LaserJet 6L September 1997

LaserJet 4000 series November 1997

This guide also covers the HP 1200C and 1600C DeskJet

printers.

1-2 Feature Set

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