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5525B/31/32 Line Matrix Printer PCL ® -II Programmer’s Reference Manual[...]

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5525B/31/32 Line Matrix Printer PCL ® -II Programmer’s Reference Manual P/N 4229 32-001[...]

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Table of Contents 1 Introduction ....... . ......... ........ ....... .. ......... ...... .. ......... . 9 About This Guide ................ ...... ............. ...... ....... ...... ....... ...... ....... ...... . 9 Warnings and Spec ial Informat ion ............................ ............. ....... 9 Related P roduct Informa tion ..............[...]

Table of Contents Character Overstrik e .... ...... ............. ...... ....... ...... ....... ...... ....... ...... . 43 Bar Codes .......................... ....... ...... ...... ....... ...... ....... ...... ....... ...... . 43 US Postn et Barcodes ... ............. ................... ................... ............. . 52 4.0 CPI (20 B ars pe[...]

9 1 Intr oduction About Thi s Gui de Your prin ter come s equipp ed with the standa rd Hewlett-P ackard ® Printer Control Lan guage (PCL ® - II) emu lation. Thi s manual explains the emul ation in detail. The Programme r’s Refe rence Manu al is des igned so that y ou can q uickly find the infor mation y ou need to u se and configure your Com pa[...]

10 Chapter 1 Software Features Software Features The PCL-II emulat ion software provides the follow ing fea tures: • Graphi cs and a selecti on of p rint dens ities. Y ou ca n enable g raphics mode and s pecify a density m ode (dots per inch) . • Print Attr ibutes. Ch aracters can be bo ld, ita lic, double high, doub le wid e, etc. • Page For[...]

11 2 HP PCL-II Introduction This chapt er desc ribes the H P ® PCL-I I emulat ion host control codes that are support ed for yo ur 5525B /31/32 Ser ies print er. Emul ation refer s to the ab ility of a prin ter to exec ute the com mands of a partic ular prin ter control langu age. A print er contr ol langu age is the codi ng system u sed to convey[...]

12 Chapter 2 Introduction HP PCL-II Emulation De fault Settings The factor y settin gs for th e PCL-II e mulation m enu optio ns are s hown in Table 1 . Hos t contro l codes ca n overrid e the setti ngs for these men u options . Switching Be tween the Emulations The printe r suppo rts four em ulations : PCL-II ( the defaul t), LineP rinter Pl us, C[...]

Printer Feature Set Compatibility 13 NOTE: The SFCC is the Special Function C ontrol Code. From the P-S eries protoco l, this code is sel ectable fro m the front panel. The default value i s hex 01. For the Prop rinter and Epson emulatio ns, the SFCC is always the ESC ( hex 1B) c haracter. Configuri ng the PCL-II Emulation wi th Cont rol Codes The [...]

14 Chapter 2 Configuring the PCL-II Emulation with Control Codes General Information Program matic Printer Con trol Control c odes and multi -charact er esca pe seq uences a re used to contro l the printer s. The prin ters ex ecute co mman d param eters in the or der t hey ar e receiv e d. Therefore, th e order of the par ameters is signifi cant. U[...]

Escape Sequences 15 Escape Se quences An esca pe seq uence co nsists of the E SC contr ol code followed b y one o r more ch aracter s in su ccessi on. Both t wo-ch aracter an d struc tured es cape sequenc es contr ol the prin ter. Two-cha racter escape sequ ences ta ke the form ES CX, where X is a char acter fro m the ASCII table (0 through ~) . St[...]

16 Chapter 2 Configuring the PCL-II Emulation with Control Codes Table 3 lists the escape sequ ences you can use with the prin ter. Note that the bracke ts [ ] use d in these escape sequen ces ar e for clar ificatio n purp oses only (the b rackets a re not ac tually p art of the com mands ). T able 3 . Line Printer Escape Sequences Escape Sequence [...]

Escape Sequences 17 PCL LEVE L II I ESC[(,)]s [0,1]S Italics for primary /secondar y font 22 ESC[(,)]s [0,1,-1]Q Density for primar y/seco ndary font 22 ESC& k4 S 12 cpi selec t ion 26 ESC*t[70, 140]R Raster g raphics vertical and horiz ontal dpi sele ction 41 ESC*r[6 0,70,120,14 0]L Raster g raphics ho rizontal d pi selec tion 41 ESC*r[7 2,144[...]

18 Chapter 2 Configuring the PCL-II Emulation with Control Codes Progr ammabl e Rese t The program mable reset esc ape seque nce (ES CE) ca uses the pr inter to eject paper to the top-of-fo rm (pos ition 0,0 ) if not a lready at top-of-for m. This comm and rese ts all c urrent p rinter co nfigurati on va lues to th e follow ing states. Th e printer[...]

Character Font Selection 19 Char acter Font Se lect ion The printe r can pri nt several differen t character sets (fon ts). By performin g a printer self-t est, you can se e whic h fonts are ins talled i n yo ur printer . You may specify any of th ese fonts from an a pplication. On the s elf-test printout , each availab le charact er font is printe[...]

20 Chapter 2 Configuring the PCL-II Emulation with Control Codes Symbol Set Select ion The printe r allows y ou to sel ect a symbo l set. A s ymbol s et is a s et of charac ters that ar e mapped t o certai n locations in the pr inter’s memory. Symbol s ets differ from one ano ther in the character s contain ed in the set and in the ir loca tions [...]

Character Font Selection 21 OCR-A 0O 7-Bit No 0 OCR-B 1O 7-Bit No 0 ISO Swe/Fin 0S 7-Bit No 0 ISO Spain 1S 7-Bit No 0 ISO Italian 0I 7-Bit No 0 ISO Portugu 4 S 7-Bit No 0 Lati n-1 0N 8- Bit N o 1 Lati n-2 2N 8- Bit N o 1 Lati n-5 5N 8- Bit N o 1 Lati n-6 6N 8- Bit N o 1 Baltic 1 9L 8-Bit No 1 PC-8 DanNor 1 1U 8-Bit Y e s 2 PC-8 Code 43 7 10U 8-Bit [...]

22 Chapter 2 Configuring the PCL-II Emulation with Control Codes Printing in the Hex 80 through Hex FF Region The printe r exhibits differe nt behavi ors as it p rocesses characte rs in the he x 80 throug h FF range. B ehavior i s based upon the s ymbol set of the ac tive font. If the s ymbol s et of the ac tive fon t is 7-b it, charac ters in the [...]

Character Density Sel ection 23 Char acter Dens ity Selectio n (PCL Level III) Standar d-density print, hi gh-dens ity print, a nd high- speed draft p rinting can be spec ified u sing the following escape s equence s: Primary Selection ESC(s0 Q Select St andard-De nsity (12 x 9 dot matrix, 120 x 72 d pi) for the primar y font ESC(s1 Q Select H igh-[...]

24 Chapter 2 Configuring the PCL-II Emulation with Control Codes T able 5. A vailable Symbol Sets Name Code Density (Pitches) Roman-8 8U HS DP NLQ T urkish-8 8 T HS DP NLQ Arab-8 8 V HS(5,10) DP NLQ Cyrillic 8R HS(5,10) DP NLQ ASCII 0U HS DP NLQ Math Symb 0A/0M HS DP NLQ Line Dr aw Set 0B/0L DP ISO Den/Nor 0D HS DP NLQ Roman Ext 0E HS DP NLQ ISO UK[...]

Switching Character Fonts 25 NOTE: All fonts support the follow ing pitches unless otherwise no ted: (5, 10 , 12, 13. 3, 15, 16.67, 20). Switching Characte r Fonts Characte r fonts c an be acc essed using the Shift I n/Shif t Out (S I/SO) cont rol codes. The SO (CTRL N) con trol code is sent to the printer to a ccess the se condary font; the S I (C[...]

26 Chapter 2 Configuring the PCL-II Emulation with Control Codes Display Functions Mode (PCL Level I) The displ ay functio ns mode can be entered us ing the ES CY sequen ce. In th e display functio ns mode, the prin ter prints represe ntative char acter sy mbols f or the co ntrol co de char acters ins tead o f actuall y execu ting the c ontrol char[...]

Line Spa cing 27 Line Spacing Vertic al line s pacing of 6 or 8 L PI (lin es per i nch) ca n be sele cted e ither from the contr ol panel or remotel y using the ESC&l[ 6 or 8]D seq uence . When the printer i s reset, the vertic al line s pacing is as set fr om the c ontrol panel . If a paramete r other than 6 or 8 is entered , the comm and is i[...]

28 Chapter 2 Configuring the PCL-II Emulation with Control Codes *All es cape se quence s excep t ESC& l0V ref er to the l ogical page rathe r than the physic al page. This esca pe sequenc e causes a skip to the top of the next physical page (un less alre ady at top of page). **These c hannels cause a move to the next d ouble/tripl e space line[...]

Programmable VFC 29 Programmable VFC Programm able VF C allows t he user t o specify p aper mov ement info rmation other than th e standard VFC definitio ns shown in Table 7 . VFC information is stored i n the memory (R AM) table just as the stand ard VFC is, only the bytes of inform ation are l oaded into RAM usin g the fo llowing e scape s equenc[...]

30 Chapter 2 Configuring the PCL-II Emulation with Control Codes Program mable VF C Using PC L Programm able VF C’ s using PCL seem to cause a lot of pr oblems a nd misunde rstandings . Most of the mis underst anding co ncerns the use of the escape s equence used to s et the VF C file. Thi s escape s equence is used to override the defaul t VFC o[...]

Programmable VFC 31 A secon d method i nvolves only prov iding a “1” in C H3 where pri nt will oc cur. The program mer then s imply calls CH 3 and the bl ank lines are skipp ed. There sti ll is no fl exibil ity for addi ng or de leting li nes witho ut VFC modi fication , but line counting i s minim ized. A third method inv olves assigning VFC c[...]

32 Chapter 2 Configuring the PCL-II Emulation with Control Codes Notice tha t for each l ine chan nel 3 is selected , this would s elect a single space ad vance . A 1 could b e placed i n any or al l other ch annels an d the VFC would sti ll be va lid sin ce the printer wil l only l ook a t the chan nel sele cted an d advance to the next line that [...]

Programmable VFC 33 • As an O CTAL number (one byte at a tim e) by prec eding the number w ith the % sign. • As a two or three cha racter mnemonic such a s BS or DC 1 (see Ap pendix B of the W orksta tion Config uration m anual). • By enterin g the cont rol characte rs with the u p-arrow or circumfle x charac ter preced ing the c haracter, i [...]

34 Chapter 2 Configuring the PCL-II Emulation with Control Codes * DO NO T depre ss t he Contr ol Ke y o n these BOLDFACE ch ar acter s si nce they are pri ntabl e charac ters. This VFC data c an now be enter ed into the escap e seque nce in an AS CII file or a prog ram and can e ither be em bedded into the applica tion o r merged w ith the sp ool [...]

Programmable VFC 35 Example VFC Data Entry Methods The exampl e escap e sequence m ay be cr eated whi le the D ISPLAY FUNCTIONS key has be en enabled as shown below.* Top of Form Bottom of Fo rm Single S pacing Double Spacing ** Triple Spaci ng** Half Form Quarter Form Tenth Line Bottom of Fo rm Bottom of Fo rm - 1 Top of Form - 1 Top of Form Seve [...]

36 Chapter 2 Configuring the PCL-II Emulation with Control Codes Another method us ing a text editor wo uld be to do a CHANG E comm and replaceme nt to co nvert the c haracters to ASCII c haracters. Th is is s hown as: ADD 1 1 ESC&14 2Wabcde fghijklm nopqrst uvwxyzAB CDEFGHIJ 2 // CHANGEQ 7/7 TO ’00 CHANGEQ 8/8 TO ’05 CHANGEQ 9/9 TO ’[...]

Logical Page Length Se lection 37 6. This escap e sequenc e must be sent to the printer before th e data by embedd ing in the applica tion or a s part of an ini tiali zation s tring. A programma ble or ha rdware RESET wi ll clear the VFC RAM causing the printer to re turn to the de fault VFC. NOTE: If either the RS-23 2E or the RS -422B in terface [...]

38 Chapter 2 Configuring the PCL-II Emulation with Control Codes Before c hanging t he page le ngth, it is recomm ended that a VFC se lect of channel 0 be pe rformed. This will bri ng the p rinter to th e top of the n ext physical page (un less the pr inter is a lready a t the to p of the phy sical page ). Changing t he logic al page le ngth chan g[...]

Horizontal Margin Selection 39 Horizontal Margin Selection Abso lute left a nd right margin s electio n is acc omplis hed using the fol lowing escape seq uence s: ESC&a[ print positi on ]L Se t left margin ESC&a[ print positi on ]M Set right m argin The print position specifi ed in dicates a deci mal numb er in the range 0 through 131 @ 1 0[...]

40 Chapter 2 Configuring the PCL-II Emulation with Control Codes Cursor Con trol Abso lute and r elative cursor contr ol are prov ided for the pri nter. Cu rsor mov es are made in the cu rrent acti ve pitch and cur rent active vertic al spacin g. The following esc ape se que nce s perfor m these func ti ons: Abs olute Row ESC&a #R Move cu rsor [...]

Raster Graphic s 41 Raster G raph ics Graphics are se nt to the pr inter usi ng the foll owing esc ape sequ ences: ESC*t[70, 140]R Raster graphics resoluti on ESC*r# L Horizontal raster gr aphics r esolutio n ESC*r# V Vertica l rast er graphic s re so lut ion The ESC*r#L and ESC*r#V esc ape sequen ces allow y ou to set the horizon tal and ver tical[...]

42 Chapter 2 Configuring the PCL-II Emulation with Control Codes The ESC*b# Y escap e sequenc e allows y ou to skip m ultipl e adjace nt blank lines. Th e # of rast er lines parameter i s the dec imal num ber of bl ank raster lines t o skip. The size of the blank ra ster li ne to b e skipp ed is eq uivalen t to the curre ntly set vertic al raste r [...]

Character O verstrik e 43 Charact er Overs trike To create special symbols and und erline selected portion s of you r output, one charac ter (maximum ) may be printed over anothe r on a ch aracter- by- charac ter or lin e-by-lin e basi s. A char acter ov erstri ke is a ccompli shed us ing either the ba ckspace c ontrol code or a carr iage return wi[...]

44 Chapter 2 Configuring the PCL-II Emulation with Control Codes NOTE: The Postne t Barcode t ypes 13 & 14 prin t 24 bars per inch. See the section on 256 x Postal Barcodes for inform ation on th e 20 bars per inch and 22.5 ba rs per inch Pos tal Ba rcodes. ESC*z#H Bar Code Hei ght This es cape seq uence de fines the heig ht of the b ar cod e l[...]

Bar Cod es 45 Printing B ar C od es Generall y, sen ding bar c ode infor mation to th e printe r is perfo rmed in tw o steps: Step 1 : Selecti ng the bar code pr intin g specif ications ; bar co de type, h eight, and header contro l informati on. Step 2 : Moving the curs or to the desired label lo catio n and send ing the bar code data . Step 1. Be[...]

46 Chapter 2 Configuring the PCL-II Emulation with Control Codes Printing M ultiple L abels O n Th e S am e L ine Printing m ore than o ne lab el on the s ame line involv es no more than positio ning the cursor a nd send ing the data for each label to be prin ted. Sinc e the term ination of the ba r code data s equence (signa lled by an uppe r-case[...]

Bar Cod es 47 NOTE: When a he ader is enable d, sendin g one l ine of inf ormat ion caus es the printe r to print two lines; one line contai ning the heade r along with any text you ma y have s ent in that line , and on e line co ntaining the bar cod e label. Whe n a head er is enabl ed, no inf ormation can be printed on the sam e line as the bar c[...]

48 Chapter 2 Configuring the PCL-II Emulation with Control Codes CODE 3 OF 9 A vari able-length data str ing of up to 32 ASCII c haract ers may be printed using th e Code 3 of 9 bar c ode. The string may be an od d or ev en length and may use any of the standard character s (specifi ed in MIL- STD-1189 ). If a non-valid characte r is used in the st[...]

Bar Cod es 49 EAN8 A fixed -length data strin g of 7 ASCII ch aracters may be printed using th e EAN 8 bar co de. The str ing leng th must be 7 and may use any o f the stand ard charac ters 0 thro ugh 9. If a n on-vali d charact er or string length is used, a blank no n-readable bar cod e will be printed; non-valid charac ters are no t substit uted[...]

50 Chapter 2 Configuring the PCL-II Emulation with Control Codes 20 Product V ariant n2+n2 21 Serial Number n2+an..2 0 22 HIBCC = Quantity , Date, Bat ch and Link n2+an..2 9 23 (**) Lot Nu mber (T ransitional U se) n3+n..19 240 Additional Product ID As signed By Manuf acturer n3+an..3 0 250 Secondary Serial Num ber n3+an..3 0 30 Quanti ty n2+n..8 3[...]

Bar Cod es 51 344 (***) Width, Diameter , or 2nd Dimension, Inches, Logistics n4+n6 345 (***) Width, Diameter , or 2nd Dimension, Feet, Logistics n4+n6 346 (***) Width, Diameter , or 2nd Dimension, Y ards, Logistics n4+n6 347 (***) Depth, Thickness, Height or 3rd Dimension, Inches, Logistics n4+n6 348 (***) Depth, Thickness, Height or 3rd Dimension[...]

52 Chapter 2 Configuring the PCL-II Emulation with Control Codes (*)To indicate only year and month, DD must be filled with “00” (**) Plus one digit for length indication (***) Plus one digit for dec imal point indication Data Value Representation: a - alphabetic characters n - numeric charac ters an - alpha-numeric characters n3 - 3 numeric ch[...]

US P ostn et Ba rcodes 53 256X US POSTNET BAR CODE The US POSTNET Bar Code is a Compaq c haracter set whi ch meets the US Postal O ffice spec ificati ons for Pos tnet bar coding, i ncludin g the lates t Delivery Point Ba r Code , or DPBC. US POSTNE T Bar Codes p rint at 4.0 cpi (20 bars per in ch) and 1 1.3 cpi ( 22.5 bars pe r inch).Both bar code [...]

54 Chapter 2 Configuring the PCL-II Emulation with Control Codes The printer does not calcul ate the check dig it, or automat ically gener ate frame bars. They must be generated by the compute r resident so ftware, and se nt to the prin ter. To do th is, it is n ecess ary to des ign a pr ogram tha t will co nvert a pair of d igits into t en verti c[...]

4.0 CPI (2 0 Bars per inch) US P OSTNET Bar Code 55 Method 2: Frame Bar & “4”: {{} (1 01001) Characte rs “58”: } }}~{ (01010 1001 0) Characters “ 34”: ~`~{} ( 00110 0100 1) Characte rs “88”: { }}~{ (10010 1001 0) Characters “ 44”: }~{{} (01001 0 1001) Characte rs “79”: { ~`{~ (100 01 11000) “9” & Frame B ar: {{} [...]

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57 A Standar d ASCII Character Set KEY ASCII CHARACTER ESC 33 27 1B OCTAL DECIMAL HEX B 7 0 0 00 11 1 1 B6 0 B5 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 0 0 0 1 1 0 1 1 COLUMN 0 1 2 3 45 67 BITS ROW B4 B2 B3 B1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 0 0 0 0 00 1 0 00 1 0 00 1 1 01 0 0 01 0 1 01 1 0 01 1 1 10 0 0 10 0 1 10 1 0 10 1 1 11 0 0 11 0 1 11 1 0 11 1 1 NUL SOH STX ETX[...]

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59 Index A ASCII Charac ter Set, 57 Availa ble sym bol se ts Table, 24 B Bar Code Types Table, 43 Bar cod es PCL-II, 43 Bar Code , US POSTNET, 2 56X US POST NET Bar Code , 53 Binary da ta, printi ng PCL-II, 39 C Char acter d ensi ty s e lectio n PCL-II, 23 Char acter fon t sele ction PCL-II, 19 Char acter over str ike PCL-II, 43 Char acter Set ASCI[...]

60 I Industrial 2 of 5 Bar Code , width, 48 Interlea ved 2 of 5 Bar Code , width, 48 Italic, c haracte r selec tion PCL-II, 22 L Labels, m ultip le Printing, 4 6 Levels, compatib le, PC L-II, 13 Line spa cing PCL-II, 27 M Manuals , related, 9 Moving p aper, VFC PCL-II, 29 P Paramet er, esca pe se quence PCL-II, 15 PCL-II, 11 default s ettings, 1 2 [...]

61 UPCA Bar Code , width, 48 UPCE Bar Code , width, 48 Uprig ht, char acter selecti on PCL-II, 22 US Postnet printin g che ck di git s, 52 US Po stnet bar c ode 4.0 cpi, 55 V Vertic al forms contro l PCL-II, 27 VFC Channel Definitio ns Table, 28 Z 11.3 CPI US Post net Bar Co de, 53[...]

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