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Xerox 4213 Printer User Manual

1. Purpose Syntax Example The Right Margin command sets the distance between the right edge of the text and the left edge of the printable area regardless of paper orientation The printable area begins 50 pixels 1 6th inch from the left edge of the paper in portrait mode and 60 pixels 1 5th inch from the left edge of the paper in landscape mode The right margin is set as a column number The width of a column is determined by the Horizontal Motion Index HMI command which sets the horizontal spacing of characters in fixed pitch fonts The HMI is used as a unit of measurement for selecting the margin but once set the margin does not change with later HMI commands E amp a M where is the column number at the end of the line Note f the Right Margin command specifies a column which exceeds the right edge of the logical page the margin is set to the edge of the printable area If the command specifies a column to the left of the left margin the command is ignored To setthe right margin at column 72 enter E amp a72M Hex 1B 26 61 37 32 4D Dec 273897555077 3 22 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Clear Horizontal Margins Purpose The Clear Horizontal Margins command causes the left and right margins to be reset to their default values at the left and right edges of the printable area Syntax Eg Hex 1B 67 39 Dec 2710357 Top Margin Purpose Th
2. TABLE OF CONTENTS About the page formatting features 2 55 Line Spacing 2 55 Line Spacing Absolute 2 56 Text Placement Absolute 2 57 Text Placement Relative 2 60 Line Draw X 2 62 Line Draw Y 2 64 About character formatting 2 68 Italics 2 68 Bold Start Bold Stop 2 68 Underline Start U nderline Stop 2 69 O verstrike Start O verstrike Stop 2 70 Subscript Start Subscript Stop 2 70 Superscript Start Superscript Stop 2 72 W hat is a constant page 2 73 Creating constant pages 2 74 Data capacity for each 2 74 M erge Page Load 2 74 Merge Page Unload 2 75 Merging constant pages 2 76 Merge Start 2 76 Merge Stop 2 77 Graphics on the 4213 2 77 Raster graphics 2 78 Vector graphics 2 79 Macro graphics 2 79 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE ix TABLE OF CONTENTS What is a graphic window 2 79 Origin and page orientation 2 80 Placement on the page 2 80 Other characteristics 2 81 Scan direction for raster graphics 2 81 Graphic Window 2 81 More about graphic windows 2 84 Page capacity for graphic windows 2 84 More about magnification 2 85 Magnification and resolution 2 85 Magnification and window placement 2 86 Reversing images 2 87 Rotating images 2 87 Graphic commands and the current text position 2 88 Graphic commands and the current graphic position
3. XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Where to place it Anywhere bolding is desired enter the Bold Start command immediately before the first character to be bolded and the Bold Stop command immediately after the last character to be bolded Example To produce It is possible to bold text without using a bold font simply insert the appropriate commands Enter Itis possible to bold text Ebwithout using a bold font Epsimply insert the appropriate commands More In most cases using a bold font gives better results especially for large sections of text U nderline Start U nderline Stop Purpose Underlines text Syntax u Instruction to start underlining w Instruction to stop underlining W here to place it Anywhere underlining is desired Example To produce Itis possible to underline text by using the following commands U nderline Start and U nderline Stop Enter Itis possible to underline textEuby using the following commandsEw Underline start and Underline stop More Both the thickness of the underline and its distance from the character it underlines are determined by the size of the current font in the line So if you underline in a large font and then change to a small font for the text in the next line you may want to enter the Font Change command for the smaller font before entering the line end This will prevent the underline for the
4. Selects a primary font with the following characteristics Portrait orientation HP Roman 8 symbol set Proportional spacing 10 characters per inch 14 points in height U pright style Ultra black stroke weight Century Schoolbook typeface 5 Styler Systems 701 South Aviation Blvd M S ES AE 336 El Segundo CA 90245 Literal text 6 E amp a10c12R Position a black line 7 E clv20H Set height and width of line 8 E cOP Print rectangle 9 E amp alO0clOR Set print position for first line of text To execute the macro enter E amp flx2X 3 62 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE U serdict operators for page type 4 PostScript emulation This chapter highlights certain programming features specific to the 4213 s emulation of the Postscript Page Description Language PDL and describes how this PDL differs from other implementations of the PostScript language Because this chapter serves as a supplement we have omitted the standard information already described in the PostScript Language Reference M anual and related publications The reference material in this chapter is intended for programmers who design host software to be used on the 4213 or who write their own programmes in the PostScript page description language papername The following operators are defined in userdict they accept no arguments and yield no results They select the imageable area that cor
5. XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Paper Tray Purpose Syntax Where to place it Example More Selects a paper source other than the default Een c Instruction for tray selection n Indicates tray selection in table 2 2 Before any printable data on the page If Paper Tray is entered within the printable contents of the page it will take effect on the next page To print from Tray 1 enter Ecl Entering Paper Tray overrides any selections made through the Emulation Menu for Paper Source and Auto Tray With Paper Tray when the selected paper tray is empty the printer stops and waits for the specified paper tray to be filled again Table 2 2 Physical and logical paper tray selections Logical paper tray Physical paper tray command Ecn HCF optional high capacity feeder 1 2 1 n l 2 n 2 HCF n 3 1 HCF 1 n 7 Bypass n 9 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 21 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE The command remains in effect until either a Reset command or another Paper Tray command is received Thus it is possible to change paper trays within a document as many times as you wish If more than one Paper Tray command is entered on a page the printer recognises only the last one Notes If Tray sequence mode is enabled the same size paper trays the same paper size and the same paper type should be installed in the selected trays The factory default tray selection
6. can insert the Centre command anywhere within the line as long as itis inserted before the line end If a Centre command is entered in a line that has been placed with the Text Placement Absolute command the line will still be placed vertically between the current margins The vertical positioning of the Text Placement Absolute is still valid but the horizontal positioning is overridden by the Centre command Refer to About the page formatting features for information on Text Placement Absolute When the printer receives a Centre command for a line that extends beyond both left and right margins it extends the excess equally beyond both margins an error message appears on your Summary Sheet 2 54 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM M ER REFERENCE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE About the page formatting features Line Spacing This section covers commands that enable you to Select line spacing other than regular single line spacing with either the Line Spacing command for spacing that is font based or the Line Spacing Absolute command for spacing set pixel by pixel e Place text or any digitised font characters such as logos or signatures at virtually any point on the grid of the page with either the Text Placement Absolute command for placing text relative to the page origin or the Text Placement Relative command for placing text relative to the current text position e Draw horizontal and vertical lines along the
7. A permanent macro is not deleted during a printer reset 3 60 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION An automatic overlay macro is the final operation in printing a page Before the macro is executed an overlay print environment replaces the current modified print environment After execution of the macro the former print environment is restored Macros can be nested only two levels deep The only control operations that may be used within a macro are 3 Call and 2 Execute Table 3 15 Macro control functions Example of a macro o Start macro definition last ID specified ges Stop macro definition E Execute macro last ID specified Call macro last ID specified Enable auto overlay macro last ID specified Stop auto overlay E Delete all macros E Delete all temporary macros Delete macro last ID specified Make macro temporary last ID specified Make macro permanent last ID specified The following example demonstrates how to use the Macro Control and Macro ID commands to create and execute a macro that downloads a font to the printer and prints a letterhead XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 61 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION 1 E amp flY Assign 1 to Macro ID 2 E amp fOX Start macro definition of ID 1 3 E amp alO0c4R Sets starting column for X and row for Y position 4 E amp IOE8U E s1p10h14v0s 7b23T
8. Binary data Escape sequences without parameters The escape sequences without parameters perform an action Such as resetting the printer These commands are typically two characters long escape followed by a character between hexadecimal 30 and 7E decimal 48 and 126 Variable sequence character The variable sequence character indicates that the escape sequence contains a parameters with variable data The variable sequence character must be in the range of hexadecimal 21 2F decimal 33 47 Group character The group character determines the type of operation to be performed by the printer The group character falls in the range of hexadecimal 60 7E decimal 96 126 3 10 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Numeric variable The numeric variable is a decimal number represented as an ASCII string Some commands allow the string to be preceded by a plus or minus sign and others allow the number to include a fractional part after a decimal point represented by the full stop character If the numeric variable is not provided it is assumed to be zero Parameter character The parameter character indicates the parameter to which the previous numeric variable applies The parameter character is only used when several escape sequences are combined The parameter character may be within the range of hexadecimal 60 7E decimal 96 126 an
9. Merge Page 2 75 to 2 76 U S English code mapping 2 116 t A 1t U S English code mapping continued 3270 EBCDIC code mappings A 12 t ASCII code mappings U K A 2t User Defined Key 2 5 to 2 8 User Defined Key to printable character converting 2 6 user defined translation tables 2 109 userdict operators for page type 4 1 user entered variables commands 2 5 using fonts in a document 2 34 to 2 35 parameter and final parameter 3 12 t V valid strings for papername 4 1 to 4 2t values for graphics resolution 3 52 t vertical tabs 2 49 to 2 51 F 1 to F 4 variable sequence character 3 10 variances xxi Vector Draw E 1t vector graphics 2 79 Vertical Cursor Position Rows 3 29 Vertical Cursor Position Decipoints 3 30 to 3 31 Vertical Cursor Position Spots 3 31 Vertical Motion Index 3 25 Vertical Rectangle Size Decipoints 3 55 Vertical Rectangle Size Spots 3 55 Vertical Tabs D 1 F 1tto F 4t vertical tabs in 1 60 inch units 2 50 f in 1 300 inch units 2 51f VFU Stops B Stops Set E 1t VFU Stops Clear E 1t VM and font cache allocation 4 13 t VMI see Vertical Motion Index voltage requirements Centronics 1 7 t DataProducts 1 11t W WARNING iv xxii what this manual contains xx Window Graphic 2 81 to 2 92 on a page 2 84 f Repeat 2 90 to 2 92 rotation 2 88 f window placement and magnification 2 86 wire size 1 1t wiring null modem 1 15 f XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO
10. cause of error Printer error messages are listed in the PostScript Language Reference M anual XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 4 11 POSTSCRIPT EMULATION Table 4 2 Jam recovery on Simplex Letter paper throughput images minute Jam recovery off Duplex Simplex Duplex 13 0 9 4 13 0 10 9 13 0 10 9 13 0 10 9 Table 4 3 Jam recovery on Simplex Table 4 4 Jam recovery on Simplex Legal paper throughput images minute Jam recovery off Duplex Simplex Duplex 10 5 4 9 10 5 8 5 10 5 9 7 10 5 9 7 A4 paper throughput images minute Jam recovery off Duplex Simplex Duplex 13 0 5 0 13 0 10 9 13 0 10 9 13 0 10 9 4 12 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE POSTSCRIPT EMULATION Table 4 5 VM Bytes 1000K VM and font cache allocation 260K 700K 700K 1000K Font cache Bytes XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 4 13 POSTSCRIPT EMULATION 4 14 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE 1 1 sided 2 sided 3 15 2 2 sided book 2 25 Inverted pad 2 26 operators 4 7 to 4 8 Page Side Selection 3 16 Stop 2 17 Side Select 2 27 to 2 28 2 sided 1 sided 3 15 3270 3270 EBCDIC code mappings Belgium A 10 Danish N orwegian A 18 Dutch A 15 Finnish Swedish A 19 French A 14 French Canadian A 11 German A 20 Italian A 17 Spanish A 16 U K English A 13 U
11. emulation submenu means that the 4213 s memory dedicated to this imaging is no longer available for user downloaded fonts or graphics or any other temporary use This means that a full page graphic that prints completely in PARTIAL imaging may not print if the page buffer is set to 1 FULL or 2 FULL Example A 2 5 MB system with 2 FULL page imaging can store only a small number of fonts about 8 fonts of 25KB each or graphics That same 2 5 MB system with PARTIAL imaging could store 2 full page graphics or over 80 25KB fonts The same full page graphic prints completely in partial imaging but notin 2 full page imaging Macro graphics Vector graphics are images made of point to point lines created by command The three commands for vector graphics are e Graphic Line e Graphic Arc e Graphic Fill W hat is a graphic window Macro graphics are images made with high level commands which perform several functions at once The 4213 has two macro graphics e Pie Chart Graphic Box A graphic window is an area defined on the page that the printer recognises as graphic data It can be temporarily stored in the printer The commands for defining and storing graphic windows are e Graphic Window e Graphic Window Repeat XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 79 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Origin and page orientation If a graphic window has been stored in the printer s memo
12. variables The centre point of the pie chart X is the horizontal distance from the window origin to the centre point Y is the vertical distance from the window origin to the centre point The radius of the pie chart XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 103 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE More Note Example 1 F1 01 9on Fn On L The percent of the pie to be taken up by the first pie slice The total of all percentages must add up to 100 A slash separates this percentage from the fill pattern number and offset value Both the fill pattern and offset value are optional The number of the fill pattern selection refer to Graphic Fill The offset value if the slice is to be offset from the centre the distance from the centre point of the pie to the narrowest point in the pie slice Parameters for all remaining pie slices percentage fill pattern and offset value respectively Line end As with the graphic arc the pie is drawn in a counterclockwise direction Remember that the slices are defined in percentages not angles Percentages must total 10096 If the sum of the pie slice is less than 10096 the pie is not closed If the sum of the pie is greater than 10096 all slices above 10096 whether whole or partial are ignored and the pie is not closed An error message appears on the Summary Sheet It is not recommended to use zero as a percentage To create the pie c
13. 55 Dec 2738108 85 where is a positive or negative number expressed in decipoints 1 720th inch and valid up to four decimal places A positive value moves the logical page to the right along the width of the physical page except on the back side of sheets printed in long edge binding 2 sided mode where the logical page moves to the left A negative value moves the logical page to the left except on the back side of sheets printed in long edge binding 2 sided mode where it moves to the right Notes Page orientation has no effect on this command The value represents an absolute move in relation to the default position of the logical page and not the current position Positioning the logical page outside the printable area may cause loss of data XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 15 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Top O ffset Registration 2 sided Page Side Selection Purpose Syntax Notes This command designates the position of the logical page across the length long side of the physical page E amp IZZ Hex 1B26 6C 5A Dec 2738108 90 where is a positive or negative number expressed in decipoints 1 720th inch and valid up to four decimal places A positive value moves the logical page down along the length of the physical page except on the back side of sheets printed in horizontal binding 2 sided mode where the logical page moves up A negative value moves the logical page up exc
14. 75 pixels one quarter inch apart like this To return to the previous line spacing enter Line Spacing or Line Spacing Absolute with the original spacing value or if at the end of the job issue to reset to defaults The printer always prints at least one line per page no matter how high the parameter entered for spacing Purpose Places text in any specified location on the page starting from the page origin It can also be used to place logos signatures or any other data that has been digitised into font characters XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 57 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Syntax Where to place it Example More EaX YL a Instruction for absolute placement X The distance in pixels from the origin of the page along the x axis to the starting point of the text line Y The distance in pixels from the origin of the page along the y axis to the starting point of the text line A comma separates these variables L Line end Immediately before the text to be placed To place a line of text the starting point of which will be 1200 pixels 100 mm 4 inches from the origin of the page along the x axis and 1650 pixels 140 mm from the origin of the page along the y axis enter Fal200 1650L Text L Figures 2 11 and 2 12 show how the command works on short edge feed paper in landscape and portrait orientations Compare the origins and the x and y axis of each p
15. Automatic mode switching Please refer to the Xerox 4213 Laser Printer User Guide for instructions on how to configure the 4213 printer to operate in XES mode It is possible to have software loaded in the 4213 which enables you to switch from one emulation to another without reconfiguring the printer This requires the use of the mode change command and the reset command Be careful to copy the commands exactly as they appear including uppercase letters punctuation and spaces The symbol L represents a carriage return ASCII 13 or ODH line feed ASCII 10 or OAH or both depending on your computer system In the IBM PC Disk Operating System DOS carriage return and line feed are automatically entered when you press the Return key at the end of each line XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 1 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE PostScript Emulation HP PCL Emulation XES Emulation Reset The mode change command The mode change command resets your 4213 enabling it to accept printing commands in the desired emulation mode Note Unpredictable results such as loss of data may occur if the mode change command is not entered with valid parameters Send the following commands to your printer preferably in the form of a test file zMCK EMU LATE PO STSCRIPT END 1 This information tells your printer to begin printing in the PostScript emulation mode MCK EMULATE PCL END L This information te
16. End of Line Wrap command causes the printer to generate a Carriage return and line feed when the cursor reaches the right margin and print on the next line With this option disabled the printer will clip all text printed past the right margin The default setting is End of Line Wrap disabled XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 33 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Hex 1B 26 73 43 Dec 2738115 67 where 0 enables End of Line W rap 1 disables End of Line W rap Push Pop Cursor Position Purpose The Push Pop Cursor Position command enables the current cursor position to be stored and recalled at a later time Up to twenty cursor positions may be stored in a last in first out LIFO stack where the item most recently pushed onto the stack is the first to come off the stack Syntax Control codes for cursor positioning Hex 1B 26 66 53 Dec 2738102 8 where 0 Push store cursor position 1 Pop recall cursor position The value of zero pushes the cursor position onto the stack and a value of one pops it off the stack and restores the cursor to the previous position The following control code are used to move the cursor Carriage Return CR CR hexadecimal OD decimal 13 moves the cursor to the left margin on the current line Space SP SP hexadecimal 20 decimal 32 moves the cursor one column to the right of the current position If space is defined as a printable char
17. German Swedish Belgian French Canadian Portuguese Latin American The Default Language The Special Table 3274 Custom Cartridge User defined or downloaded table T ri rl QJ C U3 2 Oo O0 4 O Ui UJ NJ H2 C W here to place it At any place in a job at which a new table is desired Example To switch from the current character table to the table for the Danish language enter Ezl6 More The Reset command returns the printer to the default language 2 114 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Sample job Suppose that a site does most of its business with firms in the United States so that the U S English code mapping illustrated in table 2 7 is suitable for most applications but that it is also necessary to print the following Pound sterling Yen sign International currency symbol Suppose also that the printing of the following characters can be sacrificed Backslash V 5CH Spacing circumflex bEH Spacing grave 60H XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 115 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE A custom translation table might be built as follows Table 2 7 U S English code mapping 2 116 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Building the file First determine the load address of the entry to be included in the table The lowest value to be changed is 5CH Therefor
18. MODE Figure 2 14 Line Draw X command To produce Enter Ex1200 1800 600 80L Line Draw Y Purpose Draws a line along the y axis of the page On short edge feed paper this line runs vertically up a portrait page horizontally across a landscape page Syntax p yx Y L T SL y The instruction for a line to be drawn along the y axis X The x coordinate of the starting point of the line the distance in pixels from the page origin along the x axis to the starting point 2 64 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Where to place it Example More Y The y coordinate of the starting point of the line the distance in pixels from the page origin along the y axis to the starting point L The length of the line the distance in pixels from the starting point to the end point T The thickness of the line in pixels S The degree of ink shading on a scale of 0 to 15 If no shading is desired the s value can be omitted See figure 2 16 for the 15 degrees of shading Commas separate these variables L Line end At any pointin the job where the line is desired See the sample that follows The Line Draw commands create nongraphic lines that is lines that do not need graphic windows Nongraphic lines can only be drawn on either the x or y axis horizontally or vertically Refer to What is a graphic window for information on graphics windows The fol
19. Page capacity The page on the 4213 is 100 addressable when paper is fed from trays 1 2 or the high capacity feeder There is a 6 mm wide lead edge deletion when feeding from the bypass tray The bypass tray accommodates special papers such as card stock envelopes and transparencies Page imaging capabilities are determined by available memory Table 2 1 Page capacity specifications Type of data Characters bytes per page Graphic windows per page Repeat graphic windows Maximum size of graphic window in bytes Constant pages per variable page Fonts per page Characters per merge job Capacity Limited by size of font Determined by memory Capacity Determined by memory Capacity Equal to approximately the size of available memory 1 512 Determined by memory capacity 2 12 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Setting job boundaries There are two commands for starting a document e Print Job E P L which is used to start a document that will have one font orientation either portrait or landscape per page e Print Job Mixed Orientation E49 L which is used to start a document that will have both landscape and portrait font orientations on the same page The command for ending a document is the Reset command The Reset command ends all types of jobs returns the printer to its default settings and tells the pri
20. To thine own self be true a Enter To thine own self be true EhaEs The superscript commands cannot be used to e Superscript a superscript e Index up a page e End a subscript The distance from a superscript character to a regular character depends on the current font size If you want to use a smaller or larger font for the superscript give the Font Change command immediately after Superscript Start and return to the original font before Superscript Stop In the example below the regular letters are entered using font number 3 and the superscript is entered using font number 4 To produce To thine own self be true a Enter E3To thine own self be true EhE4aE3Es To underline a superscript at its own level give the Underline Start command after the Superscript Start command 2 72 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE W hat is a constant page A constant page is a document created especially for merging with other documents A document to be merged with a constant page is referred to as a variable page figure 2 17 You can only merge one constant page with a variable page The constant page and variable page do not need to be of the same orientation A constant page in the 4213 may include Text Nongraphic lines Line Draw commands Logos signatures or any other data digitised into font characters Graphic windows A const
21. boundaries 2 13 to 2 15 units of measure 2 37 to 2 38 seven bit coding schemes 2 108 to 2 109 shading for the Line Draw commands 2 67 f shield connection 1 1t shielded cables iii Shift In D 1 Shift Out D 1 showing commands in printed output 2 6 signals and pin assignments 1 4 t to 1 5 t 1 9 t 1 15t signal timing and voltage levels Centronics 1 5 f 1 7t simple commands 2 5 Single Escape Sequence 3 10 f sixel encoding C 1 to C 7 process C 2 f Space SP 3 34 Spacing 3 4 3 38 Spacing Line 2 55 to 2 56 3 26 Spanish 3270 EBCDIC code mappings A 16 t ASCII code mappings A 5t Special Paper E 1t Special Table 2 109 code mappings language G A 21t specifications parallel interface cable 1 1 t page capacity 2 12 t short edge feed paper 2 11 f Start Graphics 3 52 to 3 53 start of record indicator 2 110 Start Stop XES Bold 2 68 Justification 2 53 Merge 2 76 to 2 77 O verstrike 2 70 Subscript 2 70 to 2 71 Superscript 2 72 Underline 2 69 statusdict operators 4 3 to 4 4 Stops Set B 12 string setprintername 4 4 STROBEL 1 4t Stroke W eight 3 5 3 41 gradations 3 42 t Style 3 4 3 40 Subscript Start Subscript Stop 2 70 substitute escape character see User D efined Key Superscript Start Superscript Stop 2 72 supported coding schemes 2 108 to 2 109 Swedish Finnish 3270 EBCDIC code mappings A 19 t ASCII code mappings A 8 t Symbol Set 3 4 3 36 LJ2D with ID numbers 3 37 t System
22. commands ignored by the 4213 XES E 1t macro 3 60 to 3 62 to avoid on the 4213 XES E 2t Canadian EM E regulations iii cancelling U ser D efined Key 2 7 Cannon connector 1 13 capacity for graphic windows 2 84 Carriage Return CR 3 34 D 1 cartridge fonts 3 9 Centre 2 54 centreing and justifying between margins 2 52 Centronics connector 1 3 interface 1 1 connector 1 3f voltage and current requirements 1 7 t signals and pin assignments 1 4 to 1 5 signal timing and voltage levels 1 6 certification approvals iii changing placement for a magnified window 2 86 f channel baud options 4 4 Channel select E 1t character codes on the Xerox 4213 2 107 to 2 108 final parameter 3 11 formatting 2 68 group 3 10 parameter 3 11 variable sequence 3 10 Character Code 3 49 to 3 50 tables A 1 tto A 21t Character Descriptor and Data 3 50 character pitch conversion table 1 60 inch units to 12 pitch characters B 9 t 1 60 inch units to 10 pitch characters B 10 t 1 300 inch units to 12 pitch characters B 11t 1 300 inch units to 10 pitch characters B 12 t Character Reassignment 2 112 to 2 113 characteristics fonts 3 1 to 3 9 font selection 3 5 to 3 9 graphic window 2 79 to 2 81 Character Spacing Absolute E 2 t Cinch D B 25P connector 1 13 class B iii Clear Horizontal M argins 3 23 code assignments ASCII D 3t EBCDIC D 5t ISO D 4t mappings tables A 1 to A 21 numbers typefaces 3 43 t coding schemes
23. data capacity 2 74 Data Monitor 2 106 to 2 107 DataProducts 2260 1 7 to 1 8 interface connector 1 8 f timing 1 10t signals and pin assignments 1 9 t data rates 1 7 t 1 11t D efault Font 3 44 decimal binary hexadecimal equivalences D 8 t to D 13t default format parameters Landscape F 1 t F 3t Portrait F 2 t F At definition of printer command 2 3 degrees of shading for Line Draw commands 2 67 f Delete D 2 determining paper feed edge 2 11 Disable Underline 3 46 double hex values D 13tto D 17t downloading fonts 2 31 Dutch 3270 EBCDIC code mappings A 15 t ASCII code mappings A 4 t E EBCDIC code assignments D 5 t mappings A 10 tto A 20t EBCD IC to ASCII translation D 7 t EME regulations iii to v emulation HP PCL 2 2 PostScript 2 2 4 1 to 4 13 XES 2 2 End Graphics 3 54 End of Line W rap 3 33 to 3 34 error message Passwordlncorrect 4 3 errors handling printers 4 11 handling syntax 4 11 Escape D 2 escape sequences combining 3 12 to 3 13 f three types 2 3 with parameters 3 10 without parameters 3 10 examples of filled rectangles 3 58 to 3 59 f exitserver 4 3 F FCC rules and regulations iii to iv features supported serial interface 1 14 feed direction 3 3 f fifteen degrees of shading for Line Draw commands 2 67 f filled rectangles examples 3 58 to 3 59 f Fill Graphic 2 99 to 2 103 fill pattern bounded by a graphic figure 2 101 f Fill Rectangular Area 3 58 fill
24. font orientations On a page of single font orientation if a change of setting for page height and or top margin is entered within the printable contents of the page the new setting goes into effect at the start of the next page On a page of mixed font orientation when a change of setting for page height and or top margin follows a change of orientation the new setting goes into effect immediately Margin settings do not adjust automatically with a change of orientation If a page is of mixed font orientation the margins should be reset with each change If margins from the previous orientation are used the printer may interpret them as being outside the page boundaries it then reverts to the default margins More about page boundaries Normally the printer does not print beyond the right margin nor make line end decisions Lines that are too long to fit within the margins will be cut off Selecting a larger font after composing a page in a smaller font could cause your text to be cut off at the right margin XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 39 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE If you enter a change of setting within the printable contents of a page and the new setting for the bottom margin is below the current text position the bottom margin goes into effect for the next page Setting illogical margins such as a top margin below a bottom one or setting margins out of page boundaries causes the
25. in figures 3 1 and 3 2 3 2 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM M ER REFERENCE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Figure 3 1 Portrait orientation page layout y x X axis gt Origin 0 0 Top Margin 1 Printable Area Feed Direction Figure 3 2 Landscape orientation page layout x y Printable Top Origin Area Margin 0 0 Paper SIX8 A X axis Feed Direction XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CEE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Symbol set Font source The symbol set defines the characters available in a font and the numeric values with which they are associated Symbol sets are designed for different languages and applications where special characters are required Each font matches a specific symbol set Therefore for a font to be available in more than one symbol set there must be a separate version of the font in the printer for each symbol set Spacing The Printer Status Sheet identifies a font as coming from the following sources Resident including the internal Laser Jet II F cartridge The left cartridge slot The right cartridge slot Downloaded as a Hewlett Packard Soft Font Pitch Spacing indicates whether a font is proportionally spaced or of fixed pitch Characters in a proportionally spaced font have varying widths e g the letter i takes up less space on a line than the letter m Fi
26. job command comment Optional comment on Summary Sheet L Line end 2 74 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Where to place it At the beginning of the constant page data Example E M This begins a constant pageL More End the constant page with a Reset command EX Notes Using Font Load or Font Add commands within the Merge Page Load command deletes the newly defined constant page The Graphic Window Repeat command is not supported when this command is in effect Merge Page U nload Purpose Erases the constant page from the printer s memory V Instruction to erase a constant page Optional request for a Summary Sheet to report errors upon execution of the next job command comment Optional comment on Summary Sheet L Line end Example E V This constant page is now erasedL More This command technically sets an end of job boundary However unlike a Reset command it does not return settings to the defaults except for the Multiple Copies command If within job boundaries Merge Page Unload is entered after Multiple Copies Multiple Copies is cancelled and the default takes effect XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 15 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Merging constant pages For example entering commands in the following order will cancel the request for three copies E4PL Print Job E C3L Multiple Copies EWL M erge Page Unload
27. of the vertical cursor in units of decipoints 1 720th of an inch The height of a row is defined by the current Vertical Motion Index VMI setting E amp a V Hex 1B 2A 61 56 Dec 27 42 97 86 where represents the number of decipoints to move or the absolute position to move to The is valid up to two places to the right of the decimal point 3 30 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Vertical Cursor Position Spots Absolute move If the value has no sign the cursor is moved decipoints down from the top margin Relative move positive If the value is preceded by a plus sign the cursor is moved decipoints down from the current cursor position Relative move negative If the value is preceded by a minus sign the cursor is moved decipoints above the current cursor position If the value specifies a position beyond the top or bottom edges of the printable area the cursor is moved to the appropriate edge of the printable area Purpose Syntax The Vertical Cursor Position Spots defines the absolute or relative position of the vertical cursor in units of spots 1 300th of an inch The height of a row is defined by the current Vertical Motion Index VMI setting Hex 1B2A 70 59 Dec 2742112 89 where is an integer representing the number of spots to move or the absolute position to move to Absolute move If the value has no
28. or escape sequences will be shown as follows E The escape character is represented by this character D The literal instruction part of the command Punctuation marks in commands serve as delimiters H User entered variables are represented by an abbreviation comment Other user entered information such as file names or Summary Sheet comments are also represented in italics L Line end carriage return and line feed Note The command must be entered in upper or lower case exactly as it is shown Do not enter spaces between characters unless specified There are three basic types of escape sequences 1 Job control commands 2 Simple commands 3 Commands with user entered variables XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 3 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Example Job control commands All jobs should begin and end with one or more job control commands A job control command serves one of two functions It either sets job boundaries telling the printer where your job starts and ends and what type of data it contains or it formats the printed output in some way When the printer receives a command to start a job it finishes the current job ejects any remaining pages from that job and starts over In addition to the escape character a job control command always includes A plus symbol that follows the escape character e An instruction an upper case letter A lineend A j
29. page axes with Line Draw X and Line Draw Y commands in 15 degrees of shading Most of these commands use the grid of the page the origin x axis and y axis which is discussed in How the printer defines a page Purpose Adjusts the amount of spacing between lines of text Line Spacing is font based that is it gives you five choices for spacing all of which are based on the size of the largest current font on the line i Instruction for line spacing n The amount of spacing based on the largest current font 0 Single spacing 1 One and a half line spacing 2 Double spacing 3 Triple spacing 4 Half line spacing XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 55 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Where to place it Immediately before the beginning of the line for which the new spacing is intended preferably at the end of the previous line Example To produce Text printed in this font with normal single spacing looks like this Entering a Line Spacing command with a parameter of 2 will cause text to double space like this Enter a Line Spacing command with a parameter of 0 to return text to normal single spacing Enter Text printed in this font with normal singleL spacing looks like this Ei2 L Entering a Line Spacing command withL a parameter of 2 will cause text to doubleT space like this EiO L Enter a Line Spacing command with a parameterL of 0 to return text to normal single spa
30. parameters 4 3 set up operators 4 4 to 4 5 syntax command 2 3 error handling 4 11 IN D EX 8 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE f FIGU RE t TABLE INDEX T table data record 2 210 to 2 212 table of contents vii to xviii Table Special Translation 2 109 tab position and intervals 2 47 F 1 to F 4 tabs 2 44 to 2 52 Tabs Clear Horizontal 2 47 Tabs Clear Vertical 2 48 to 2 49 Tabs Horizontal 2 45 to 2 47 F 1tto F 4t Tabs Horizontal B E 1t Tabs Vertical 2 48 to 2 51 F 1tto F 4t Text Length 3 23 to 3 24 Text Placement Absolute 2 57 to 2 60 Text Placement Relative 2 60 to 2 62 text placement restrictions 2 40 timeout operators 4 5 to 4 6 Time Stamp E 1t tips on selecting UDK 2 8 Top Margin 3 23 Top Offset Registration 3 16 trailing edge paper 2 11f Transfer Raster D ata 3 53 translation table entries 2 111 structure 2 109 to 2 112 Transparent D ata 3 45 tray selection operators 4 8 to 4 11 Typeface 3 5 3 42 and code numbers 3 43 to 3 44 t types of escape sequences 2 3 to 2 5 U UDK 2 5 to 2 8 UDK as text printing the sequence 2 7 U DK tips on selecting 2 8 UK English 3270 EBCDIC code mappings A 13t ASCII code mappings A 2t U nderline 3 45 Disable 3 46 Underline Start U nderline Stop 2 69 underlining fixed 3 45 floating 3 45 units setting margins and tabs 2 37 to 2 52 units of measure 2 10 conversion tables B 2 tto B 12t setting 2 37 U nload
31. parity options appearing on the User Interface follow these steps 1 Press the Menu A button 2 Press the Last Page c button until FLOW CONTROL appears 3 Press the Test B button 4 Press the Last Page c button to scroll through the two flow control choices XON OFF DTR 4 Press the Select D button to enter your choice Note When connected to amodem XON OFF is required Return to printer operation Press the Online H button to return the 4213 to Print Mode RS232 serial connector The 4213 supports asynchronous modems and host employing the RS232C interface The modems supported are Bell 103 and 212 compatible asynchronous modes communicating at rates of 1 200 2 400 4 800 9 600 or 19 200 bps half or full 2 sided The printer is connected to a modem via a cable with a Cannon or Cinch DB 25P connector attached Figure 1 5 shows the RS232C connector Figure 1 5 RS232C serial connector Note Maximum length for the serial interface cable is 15 metres 50 feet XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 1 13 INTERFACES Serial interface features supported Serial signals and pin assignments The 4213 supports the following serial interface features Bit rate within a character may be up to 19 2K baud Baud rates of 1 200 2 400 4 800 9 600 19 200 Character format bit serial Character asynchronous Start bit space 7 or 8 data bits l mark 0 space O ptional parity bit St
32. pixels you enter for its size along the x axis is a multiple of eight You do not need to made a similar calculation for the window s y direction the printer does this automatically Purpose D efines an area on the page for graphics XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 81 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Syntax E gwM or M x M y R X Y Sx SyL gw The instruction for graphic window Commas separate the variables M or Mx M y The degree of magnification Mx represents magnification in the horizontal or x direction My represents magnification in the vertical or y direction If only one value for M is entered then magnification is the same for both directions Oorl No magnification 2 Window size on the printed page appears twice its actual size 4 Window size on the printed page appears four times its actual size For example 2 4 indicates that the window size is to appear doubled in the horizontal direction and quadrupled in the vertical direction The type of graphics data the window will contain Also indicates whether the image will be printed as is or if it will be reversed 0 Raster data 1 Reversed raster data 2 Vector or macro data 3 Reversed vector or macro data R The factor for rotation in the current orientation 0 No rotation 1 32 C 90 F counterclockwise 2 180 counterclockwise 3 270 counterclockwise The semicolon is required If it is omitted the command is ignored 2 82
33. printer to revert to the default margins If the printer receives several Margins commands while formatting a page the last command it receives will be used on the next page Text placement restrictions on the 4213 printer The following restrictions apply to page boundaries on the 4213 printer e Any text printing beyond the bottom edge of the paper is printed on the next page e Any character printing beyond the right edge of the paper is not printed Margins Purpose Sets all four margins for a page Syntax c mH T B L RL m Instruction to set margins H T B LR Margin values in units of either five pixels 1 60th inch or 42 mm or one pixel 1 300th inch or 08 mm with commas to separate values H Height of the page The distance between the top edge and the bottom edge of the page T Top margin The distance from the top edge of the page to the baseline of the characters in the first line of text B Bottom margin The distance from the bottom edge of the page to the baseline of the last line of text 2 40 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFERENCE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE L Left margin The distance from the left edge of the page to the left side of the first character where each line is to be printed R Right margin The distance from the left edge of the page to where the right side of the last character in each line is to be printed L Line end Where to place it After the Units c
34. provides compatibility with the Dataproducts 2260 line printer controllers The Dataproducts interface uses a 50 pin Winchester connector MRA S D5J which mates with a Winchester MRAC 50 P JKTCH connector using 100 1020P pins The pin names are provided in this figure only for the sake of information They do not appear on the real connector The maximum cable length when using the Dataproducts interface is 10 feet 3 05 metres Figure 1 3 shows the Dataproducts connector The 4213 does not support Negative Logic mode for Dataproducts 2260 Figure 1 3 Dataproducts interface connector 1 8 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE INTERFACES D ataproducts signals and pin assignments Table 1 4 describes the signals and pin assignments for the Dataproducts 2260 interface Table 1 4 Dataproducts signals and pin assignments Pin Signal Source B Data 1 Host LSB 1 0 return Data 2 Host return Data 3 Host return Data 4 Host return Data 5 Host return Data 6 Host return Data 7 Host return Data 8 Host o o zx 5 o n ia o zir C return Character Host Strobe return Demand Line Printer return CC EE Ready Printer return XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 1 9 INTERFACES Table 1 4 Dataproducts signals and pin assignments continued Source ON LINE Printer Interface Printer Connect Verify Interface Printer Connect Ve
35. relative placement of text or for nongraphic lines all of which are measured in units of one pixel or 1 300 inch you may want to select Units 1 300 for margins and tabs as well Appendix B Conversion tables for units of measure lists 1 60 and 1 300 inch equivalents for inches millimetres 10 pitch characters and 12 pitch characters U nits 1 60 Purpose Sets five pixels 1 60 inch or 42 millimetres as the unit of measure for margins and tabs Syntax Ezg W here to place it Before the margins or tabs command to which it applies U nits 1 300 Purpose Syntax W here to place it Sets one pixel 1 300 inch or 08 millimetres as the unit of measure for margins and tabs Ezf Before the margins or tabs command to which it applies 2 38 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE About margins The most common place in the job to enter the margin settings is after the Font ID Assignment or Font Change commands This is because the font determines the orientation of the page Refer to How the printer defines a page for additional information on page and font orientations You can set e All four margins for a page with the Margins command One margin individually with the Margin Top Margin Bottom Margin Left or Margin Right commands All margins commands are cleared either by another Margins command or by a Reset command More about page and
36. repeats the first y coordinate Y1 For all succeeding coordinates the y coordinate of the preceding point is used as a default if a new value is missing To create the line in figure 2 27 which is five pixels thick and draws four lines between five pair of coordinates enter Egl5 150 1050 300 600 600 975 900 525 1200 1050L 2 94 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Graphic Arc Figure 2 27 A graphic line drawn inside a graphic window Purpose Syntax Draws arcs and circles within the graphic window figure 2 28 EgaT X Y r S1 E1 Sn EnL ga T X Y The instruction for a graphic arc Line thickness of the figure This number can not exceed one half the radius The semicolon is required If omitted the command is ignored Commas separate the other variables The coordinates for the centre of the arc X is the horizontal distance from the left edge of the graphic window to the centre point Y is the vertical distance from the top edge of the graphic window to the centre point XEROX 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 95 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE More S1 El Sn En L Figure 2 28 The radius of the arc The starting point of the arc expressed in degrees on a circle The printer draws in a counterclockwise direction The ending point of the arc expressed in degrees Additional pairs of starting and ending angl
37. reset Permanent downloaded fonts are retained through resets but are lost when the printer is turned off If the primary or secondary font is deleted the font most closely resembling the deleted font is chosen from the remaining fonts to be the new primary or secondary font Font Descriptor Syntax Syntax The Font Selection by ID command designates a downloaded font as the primary or secondary font by its ID number There are separate commands for selecting primary and secondary fonts The following command selects a primary font Hex 1B 28 58 Dec 27 40 88 To select a secondary font enter Hex 1B 29 58 Dec 2741 88 where is the font ID number Font assignment numbers on downloaded fonts may or may not be consecutive The numbers are only meant to be identifiers and a gap does not imply anything is missing Purpose The Font Descriptor command creates a header or descriptor for a font being downloaded to the printer The Font Descriptor command normally follows a Font ID command 3 48 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Syntax E s W font descriptor data Hex 1B2973 57 Dec 2741115 87 where is the number of bytes in the font descriptor that follows The brackets are not to be entered The font descriptor is normally 64 bytes long The font descriptor contains values for the following font characteristics font type baseline distance cell
38. scroll through the two choices of DISABLED OR ENABLED Disabled is the factory default 4 Press the Select D button when your choice appears on the U ser Interface Return to print mode Press the Online H button to return the 4213 to Print Mode 1 2 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE INTERFACES Centronics connector The Centronics interface uses an Amphenol 36 pin connector 57 40360 or equivalent This connector mates with an Amphenol 57 30360 or equivalent connector and is illustrated in figure 1 1 Centronics compatible Epson type interfaces for personal computers can also be used on the 4213 A standard female Centronics cable connection is supplied The signals associated with each pin are described in Table 1 2 on the following page Figure 1 1 shows the Centronics interface connector Figure 1 1 Centronics interface connector XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 1 3 INTERFACES Centronics signals and pin assignments Table 1 2 describes Centronics 100 signals and pin assignments receive data buffer is full BUSY high occurs when an error condition exists PEH Ground SLCT H A high signal indicates the printer is in the select state A low signal occurs when the printer is deselected or if an error condition exists 12 From printer 13 From printer 14 15 Printer to stunt box Ground standard Centronics 2 MHz Field stunt box c
39. that follow hexadecimal values are expressed as two alphanumeric characters followed by H For example if a field contains a hexadecimal value with a length of two bytes the field will consist of the two characters used to represent that value as typed at the keyboard Where alphanumeric characters are indicated they are enclosed in double quotes for example OB 1 The start of record indicator This is always the letter S 2 The record type indicator This is a 2 3 or 4 Each number has a significance e 2 alters the U S English table for use with any non ISO font when language H has been specified Language H is specified automatically upon completion of the Table download e 3 and 4 alter only the ISO table The ISO table serves as a base for both ASCII and EBCDIC multinational mappings 2 110 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE 3 Byte count This is one half the number of bytes characters in the remainder of the record including the load address and the two F s at the end Each character in the record represents a four bit hexadecimal value and is always two bytes long 4 Load address This is the first hex location to be altered multiplied by two and is always four characters long For example if the first location to be altered is 40H the value to be entered as the load address is 0080 Two leading 0s have been a
40. that the top of the front page is printed in the same position as the bottom of the back page zyf Instruction to start 2 sided printing n The number of pixels by which the margin of the second page is shifted If no value is entered for n the second page is printed without shifting The top margin is shifted regardless of the page orientation L Line end Before any printable data on the first page for which 2 sided printing is to start If 2 sided Inverted is entered on the page after printable data it takes effect on the next page rather than on the current one If you choose to shift margins ensure that the margins have been set within page boundaries so that none of the text runs off the page Both 2 sided and 2 sided Inverted are cancelled by 2 sided Stop 2 sided printing can be enabled either through the printer control panel or with the printer commands The printer commands override defaults set through the printer control panel 2 26 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE 2 sided Stop Purpose Stops 2 sided printing and returns to 1 sided printing zye Instruction to stop 2 sided printing L Line end Where to place it Any place on the last page to be printed in 2 sided format More Switching to and from 2 sided printing within a document can slow the printer s performance If one page is to be printed 1 sided within a large 2 sided job it may be m
41. the asterisk or cent sign character t Using an alphanumeric character is not recommended f you need to print the UDK once you have begun a job you must convert it back to a printable character by selecting a new UDK As stated earlier some commands require a line end If a line end is not necessary it should not be entered since it adds a physical line to your page and returns the current printing position to the left margin However omitting a required line end will cause an error in the job Line end configuration may differ from one host system to another It may be either a carriage return ODH or a line feed 0AH Ensure that the line end for the 4213 matches that of your host 2 8 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE H ow the printer defines a page Page orientation There are two types of page orientations e Portrait e Landscape A portrait page is taller than it is wide a landscape page is wider than it is tall Page orientation is determined by the orientation of the first font to appear on the page Font orientation As shown below there are two types of font orientations e Portrait e Landscape Portrait orientation is initiated when you select a portrait font Landscape orientation is initiated when you select a landscape font You can print landscape and portrait text on the same page by using the command Print Job Mi
42. up to two decimal places The Pitch command for the secondary font is E s H Example To set the primary font as 12 pitch and the secondary font as 10 pitch enter E s12H Hex 1B2873 313248 Dec 2740115 49 50 72 The Pitch command for the secondary font is as follows Syntax E s10H Hex 1B 29 31 30 48 Dec 27 41 49 48 72 Height Purpose The Height command selects the character height of the font in points 72nds of an inch There are separate commands to select height for the primary and secondary fonts If the selected height is unavailable the closest match is used Fonts within a quarter of a point of the requested height are seen by the printer as identical selections Syntax E sav where is the selected height in points up to two decimal places The Height command for the secondary font is E s V XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 39 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Example To select a primary font of 8 points and a secondary font of 14 6 points enter and E s8V Hex 1B 29 73 38 56 Dec 2741115 56 86 E s14 6V Hex 1B 28 73 31 34 2E 36 56 Dec 2740115 49 52 46 54 86 Style Purpose The Style command selects upright or italic characters Two Style commands exist for the primary and secondary fonts If the style requested is not available the Style command is ignored Syntax E s S The Style command for the secondary font is E s S where 0 selects upright 1 selects italic Exa
43. width cell height orientation fixed proportional spacing symbol set pitch height style stroke weight typeface For information on how to format a font descriptor block refer to the Hewlett Packard Laser Printer Technical Reference M anual Character Code Purpose The Character Code command specifies the decimal ASCII value of the next character to be downloaded Syntax E cuHE where is the single byte decimal character code XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 49 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Example Character Descriptor and Data To specify a character code for the letter J enter E c74E Hex 1B 2A 63 4A 45 Dec 27 4299 74 69 Purpose Syntax The Character Descriptor and Data command is used for downloading a character to the printer The downloaded character has the ASCII character code previously assigned through the Character Code command E s W character descriptor data Hex 1B 2873 57 Dec 2740115 87 where is the number of bytes up to 32767 in the character descriptor and data following the command The brackets are not to be entered The character descriptor and data contains byte values for the following characteristics Orientation Left offset Top offset Character width Character height Delta X Character data Note The 4213 and LaserJet resident fonts do not have identical character spacing height and width The differences between characte
44. 13 printer to literally print any data sent including unprintable control codes e g escape or form feed This is particularly useful when accessing graphic characters in the IBM PC symbol set which fall in the lower ASCII range E amp p X transparent data where is the number of bytes of transparent data The brackets are not to be typed in To print the form feed hexadecimal OC decimal 12 as a female symbol enter E amp p1X 12 Hex 1B26 700C Dec 273811212 Purpose The Underline command enables or disables underlining and selects fixed or floating underlining Fixed underlining Characters are underlined at a fixed distance of 1 60th of an inch below the character baseline regardless of character size and style Floating underlining Characters underlined at the distance specified by whatever font on the line requires the greatest separation between the character baseline and the underline XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 45 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Syntax Disable U nderline Hex 1B 26 64 44 Dec 2738100 68 where 0 is fixed underline 3 is floating underline Purpose Syntax Primary and secondary fonts Disable Underline cancels the Underline command E amp d Hex 1B 26 64 40 Dec 2738100 64 Font ID The control codes Shift In SI with the hexadecimal value OF decimal 15 and Shift Out SO with the hexidecimal value OE d
45. 2 89 Copying graphic windows 2 89 Graphic Window Repeat 2 90 Creating graphic images 2 92 Graphic Line 2 93 Graphic Arc 2 95 Graphic Box 2 98 Graphic Fill 2 99 Graphic Pie Chart 2 103 More about Graphic Pie Chart 2 105 The purpose of the data monitor 2 106 X XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE TABLE OF CONTENTS Data Monitor 2 106 Character codes on the Xerox 4213 2 107 Supported coding schemes 2 108 Control codes 2 108 7 bit coding schemes 2 108 The Special Table 2 109 User defined translation tables 2 109 Translation table structure 2 109 More about the table data record 2 110 1 The start of record 2 110 2 The record type indicator 2 110 3 Byte count 2 111 4 Load address 2 111 5 Table entries 2 111 6 Record terminator 2 112 Character reassignment 2 112 Load Translation Table 2 113 Language 2 114 Sample job 2 115 Building the file 2 117 Invoking the base table 2 118 More about creating tables 2 121 3 LJ series 2D emulation 3 1 Font compatibility 3 1 Primary and secondary fonts 3 1 Font characteristics 3 2 Orientation 3 2 Symbol set 3 4 Font source 3 4 Spacing 3 4 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE xi TABLE OF CONTENTS Pitch 3 4 Height 3 4 Style 3 4 Stroke weight 3 5 Ty
46. 3 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 35 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Symbol Set Stroke weight Typeface Soft font with the lowest ID number Left cartridge Right cartridge Internal font orientation Font selection can only be guaranteed if the total set of font commands shown on the following pages is used Failure to specify any of the font characteristics may result in selection of a font that differs from the HP font Purpose Syntax Example The Symbol Set command sends the printer a numeric code corresponding to a symbol set If a non existent symbol set is selected the printer continues to use the last symbol set accessed There are separate Symbol Set commands for the primary and secondary fonts E ID The secondary font symbol set command is E JD where ID is one of the two character symbol set ID s given in table 3 8 To use 15025 French for the primary symbol set and ISO 4 United Kingdom for the secondary symbol set enter the following commands E OF Hex 1B 28 30 46 Dec 27 40 48 70 and E 1E Hex 1B 293145 Dec 27 4149 69 3 36 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Table 3 8 LJ2D symbol sets with ID numbers ID Symbol Set ID Symbol Set ISO 11 Swedish Names ISO 4 United Kingdom ISO 10 Swedish Finnish ISO 16 Portuguese ISO 84 Portuguese ISO 85 Spanish IBM Greek 8 ISO 6 ASCII ISO 15 Italian 1U Legal OK
47. 3Classic12iso LT E 4Classic10iso LL to select Classic8Biso L within a document enter El B If you specify a number that is not assigned first with a Font ID Assignment the printer continues printing with the current font An error message appears on the Summary Sheet To select the default landscape font without having assigned a font ID use EO To select the default portrait Titan font without having assigned a font ID use E1 You may want to select either the default portrait or landscape font to identify the page orientation The first font called out determines the orientation of the page Margins and tabs are set either in units of five pixels 1 60 inches or in units of one pixel 1 300 inches You select the unit of measure by entering Units 1 60th or Units 1 300th The Units commands are entered before those for margins or tabs settings They need not be entered immediately before however You do not need to enter a Units command more than once in a job XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 37 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE When the printer is powered on units of measure are set at 1 60th inches automatically The Reset command which clears all settings also returns the units to 1 60 inches Thus at the start of a job if you want to use 1 60 inch for your unit of measure you need not use the Units command If your job requires calculations for absolute or
48. At the end of the job enter Reset E X command unless you want the same number of copies for the next job If n 2 0 the command is ignored and defaults to printing one copy The maximum number of copies that can be requested at the printer control panel is 99 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 19 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Multiple Copies N on Collated Purpose Syntax Where to place it Example More Determines the number of uncollated copies printed when more than one is desired E En commentL E Instruction to print multiple copies n Indicates the number of copies to be printed up to 999 copies j Optional request for a Summary Sheet if enabled through the printer control panel comment Optional comment on Summary Sheet L Line end Anywhere on the first page of the document To print 50 copies of a document request a Summary Sheet and print the comment Distribute this to all committees enter E E50 Distribute this to all committeesr Pages will not be collated the output will be 50 copies of page one then 50 copies of page two etc At the end of the job enter a Reset EX command unless you want the same number of copies for the next job If n 2 0 the command is ignored and defaults to printing one copy The maximum number of copies that can be requested at the printer control panel is 99 2 20 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE
49. B 26 61 2B 31 34 34 30 48 Dec 27 3897 43 49 52 52 48 72 Purpose The Horizontal Cursor Position Spots defines the absolute or relative position of the horizontal cursor in units of spots 1 300th of an inch Position O is flush with the left boundary of the printable area 3 28 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION where is an integer representing the number of spots to move or the absolute position to move to Absolute move If the value has no sign the cursor is moved spots to the right of the left edge of the printable area Relative move positive If the value is preceded by a plus sign the cursor is moved spots to the right of the current cursor position Relative move negative If the value is preceded by a minus sign the cursor is moved spots to the left of the current cursor position If the value specifies a position beyond the left or right edges of the printable area the cursor is moved to the appropriate edge of the printable area Example To move the current cursor position from 300 spots 1 inch from position 0 to 1500 spots 5 inches from position 0 enter E p1500X Hex 1B 2A 70 31 35 30 30 58 Dec 27 42 112 49 53 48 48 88 or as a relative move E p4 1200X Hex 1B 2A 70 2B 31 32 30 30 58 Dec 2742112 43 49 50 48 48 88 Vertical Cursor Position Rows Purpose The Vertical Cursor Position Rows defines the absolute
50. EBCDIC that are meaningful to the 4213 printer their most common uses in those environments and the ways in which the printer responds to them Non EBCDIC hosts may transmit 7 bit codes to the 4213 printer however 7 bit coding schemes are normally unable to invoke font characters whose assigned code has a value greater than 7FH the primary code set Most fonts have some characters within the range 80H to FFH the secondary code set Multinational character mapping uses characters in the range 80H to FFH to construct a language specific 7 bit mapping table that includes all standard national language characters 2 108 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE The Special Table U ser defined translation tables The Special Table is a translation table that has been designed especially for users operating in an IBM 3274 coaxial connection environment It can be selected using the Language command selecting language G Note The Special Table does not recognise control codes i e hexadecimal values less than EBCDIC 40H or the space character EBCDIC 40H These codes must be reassigned to a valid value in the table before they can be used Do not select the Special Table for systems using the ASCII encoding The Special Table provides 91 codes for symbols plus the following predefined codes EBCDIC 4AH yields ASCII OCH FF EBCDIC 5FH yields ASCII 15H NL may be used i
51. Examples 2 14 Print Job 2 15 Print Job Mixed Orientation 2 16 Reset 2 17 Formatting the printed output 2 18 Multiple Copies 2 19 Multiple Copies N on Collated 2 20 Paper Tray 2 21 Bypass Slot Paper Size 2 22 Offset 2 24 2 sided book 2 25 2 sided Inverted pad 2 26 2 sided Stop 2 27 2 sided Side Select 2 27 Comment 2 28 Fonts on the 4213 2 29 How fonts are stored 2 30 How to download fonts from the host computer 2 31 Font Load 2 32 Font Add 2 33 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE vii TABLE OF CONTENTS Font Delete 2 33 Font Unload 2 34 Using fonts in a document 2 34 FontID Assignment 2 35 Font Select 2 37 Setting units of measure 2 37 Units 1 60 2 38 U nits 1 300 2 38 About margins 2 39 More about page and font orientations 2 39 More about page boundaries 2 39 Text placement restrictions on the 4213 printer 2 40 Margins 2 40 Setting independent margins 2 42 Margin Top 2 43 Margin Bottom 2 43 Margin Left 2 44 Margin Right 2 44 About tabs 2 44 More about job boundaries 2 45 More about page boundaries 2 45 Tabs Horizontal 2 45 Tabs Clear Horizontal 2 47 Tabs Vertical 2 48 Tabs Clear Vertical 2 52 Justifying and centreing between margins 2 52 About justification 2 52 About centreing 2 52 Justification Start Stop 2 53 Centre 2 54 viii XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE
52. FEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION The Orientation command defines the position of the logical page and the direction in which the 4213 will print in relation to the physical page E amp l 0 Hex 1B 26 6C Dec 2738108 where 0 is portrait 1 is landscape The default orientation is portrait 0 Orientation Purpose Syntax Left Margin Purpose Syntax The Left Margin command sets the distance between the left edge of the text and the left edge of the printable area regardless of paper orientation The left margin is set as a column number The width of a column is determined by the Horizontal Motion Index HMI command which sets the horizontal spacing of characters in fixed pitch fonts The HMI is used as a unit of measurement for selecting the margin but once set the margin does not change with later HMI commands The default left margin is at column zero which is 50 pixels 1 6th inch from the left edge of the paper in portrait mode and 60 pixels 1 5th inch from the left edge of the paper in landscape mode where is the column number at which printing starts Note If the Left Margin command specifies a column with a value greater than that of the right margin the command is ignored XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 21 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Right Margin Example To set the left margin at column 8 enter E amp a8L Hex 1B 26 61 38 4C Dec 27389756 76
53. FULL page imaging can store only a small number of fonts about 8 fonts of 25KB each or graphics That same 2 5 MB system with PARTIAL imaging could store 2 full page graphics or over 80 25 KB fonts The same full page graphic prints completely in partial imaging but notin 2 FULL page imaging Syntax E tR Hex 1B2A 74 52 Dec 2742116 82 where is one of the values in table 3 12 Example To print graphics in 150 dots per inch enter E t150R Hex 1B 2A 7431353052 Dec 27 42116 49 53 48 82 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 51 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Raster Graphics Presentation Mode Table 3 12 Values for graphics resolution Graphics Resolution 75 75 spots per inch 100 100 spots per inch 150 150 spots per inch 300 300 spots per inch This command designates how the raster image will appear on the logical page where 0 Raster graphics are printed in the orientation of the logical page 3 Raster graphics are printed along the width of the physical page regardless of the orientation of the logical page Purpose Syntax Start Graphics Purpose 3 52 The Start Graphics command initialises the printer for subsequent Transfer Raster Data commands and determines the location of the left graphics margin The left graphics margin may be set at the left edge of the printable area or at the current X value of the cursor position After receiving the Star
54. GRAM MER REFEREN CE BETA VERSION INDEX 9 INDEX f FIGU RE t TABLE X Margin Right 2 44 Bold Start Bold Stop 2 68 to 2 69 Bypass Slot Paper Size 2 22 to 2 24 Centre 2 54 Comment 2 28 to 2 29 Data Monitor 2 106 to 2 107 2 sided book 2 25 2 sided Inverted pad 2 26 2 sided Side Select 2 27 to 2 28 2 sided Stop 2 27 Font Add 2 33 Font Delete 2 33 to 2 34 Font ID Assignment 2 35 to 2 36 Font Load 2 32 Font Select 2 37 Font Unload 2 34 Graphic Arc 2 95 to 2 97 Graphic Box 2 98 to 2 99 Graphic Fill 2 99 to 2 103 Graphic Line 2 93 to 2 95 Graphic Pie Chart 2 103 to 2 105 Graphic Window 2 81 to 2 89 Graphic Window Repeat 2 90 to 2 92 Justification Start Stop 2 53 Line Draw X 2 62 to 2 64 Line Draw Y 2 64 to 2 67 Line Spacing Absolute 2 56 to 2 57 Line Spacing 2 55 to 2 56 Margin Bottom 2 43 Margin Left 2 44 XES commands Margins 2 40 to 2 42 Margin Top 2 43 Merge Page Load 2 74 to 2 75 Merge Page Unload 2 75 to 2 76 Merge Start 2 76 to 2 77 Merge Stop 2 77 Multiple Copies 2 19 Multiple Copies Non Collated 2 20 Offset 2 24 to 2 25 O verstrike Start O verstrike Stop 2 70 Paper Tray 2 21 to 2 22 Print Job 2 15 to 2 16 PrintJob M ixed O rientation 2 16 to 2 17 Reset 2 17 to 2 18 Subscript Start Subscript Stop 2 55 Superscript Start Superscript Stop 2 70 to 2 71 Tabs Clear Horizontal 2 47 Tabs Clear Vertical 2 52 Tabs Horizontal 2 45 to 2 47 T
55. HMI is reset to the current default when font orientation symbol set height pitch or spacing are set and when the current font is changed The default value of HMI depends on the current font Use the following formula to calculate the HMI HMI 120 characters per inch Example To set the HMI for a 12 pitch font 12 characters per inch enter E amp k10H Hex 1B 26 6B 31 30 48 Dec 27 38 107 49 48 72 Vertical Motion Index Purpose The Vertical Motion Index VMI command sets the distance between rows in 48ths of an inch The default VMI is 8 48ths which prints as six lines per inch XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 25 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION where is the distance between rows in 48ths of an inch must be between 0 and 336 The is valid to four places to the right of the decimal point Use the following formula to calculate the VMI VMI 48 lines per inch Example To print four lines per inch setthe VMI to 12 E amp I12C Hex 1B 26 6C 31 32 43 Dec 2738108 49 50 67 Line Spacing Purpose The Line Spacing command affects the VMI in lines per inch The command specifies the number of lines per inch to be printed Syntax E amp ldD where is one of the following valid settings for lines per inch 1 2 3 4 6 8 12 16 24 48 Example To set line spacing at eight lines per inch enter Cursor positioning commands E amp I8D Hex 1B 26 6C 38 44 Dec 2738 108 56 68 The cursor positioni
56. ISO 14 IS ASCII ISO 2 International Reference Version ISO 57 Chinese OEM 1 Technical 7 U HP Roman 8 OCRB 15U Pi Font 0Q OY Bar Code 3 of 9 9 Sc A 0A rri o a m m 8G Ol x 1M 8M ou oo rw The Danish symbol set is part of the Norwegian sets XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 37 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Spacing Purpose The Spacing command instructs the printer to accept proportionally spaced or fixed pitch fonts If proportional spacing is selected but no proportionally spaced font is available the printer will designate a fixed pitch font instead Separate commands exist for selecting the spacing mode of the primary and secondary fonts The Spacing command for the secondary font is E s P where 0 sets fixed pitch 1 sets proportional spacing Example To select the primary for as proportional and the secondary font as fixed pitch enter the following commands E s1P Hex 1B 38 733150 Dec 2740115 49 80 and E sOP Hex 1B 29 73 3050 Dec 2741115 48 80 Pitch Purpose The Pitch command selects the character spacing of fixed pitch fonts in characters per inch cpi If the pitch requested is unavailable the printer searches for the next size up failing that the next size down There are separate Pitch commands for the primary and secondary fonts 3 38 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAMMER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION where is a real number valid
57. LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Example To feed from the lower tray 2 enter E amp I4H Hex 1B 26 6C 34 48 Dec 273810852 72 Page Size Purpose The Page Size command determines the physical size of paper which sets the limits of the logical page The top left and right margins are set to the defaults for the size of paper chosen as is the text length Automatic macro overlays are turned off and any unprinted data is printed If the paper size requested is not available in the paper tray s a message requesting the correct paper tray is displayed on the printer control panel Syntax E amp I A where is one of the paper or envelope sizes in table 3 4 Note Envelopes must be fed manually through the feeder Example To print on legal size paper enter E amp l3A Hex 1B26 6C3341 Dec 27381085165 3 18 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM M ER REFERENCE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Table 3 4 Paper size values Paper Size 1 Executive 184 x 267mm 7 25 x 10 5 inches 2 Letter 216 x 279 mm 8 5 x 11 inches 3 Legal 216 x 356 mm 8 5 x 14 inches 26 A4 210 mm x 297 mm 80 Monarch 7 98 x 191 mm 3 7 8 x 7 1 2 inches 81 Commercial 10 Business 105 x 241 mm 4 1 8 x 9 1 2 inches 90 International DL envelope 110 mm x 220 mm 91 International C5 envelope 162 mm x 229 mm Page Length Purpose The Page Length command determines the length of the text area in lines of text which in turn defines t
58. MAND LANGUAGE MODE More Print Job Mixed Orientation Font selections are entered after Print Job more information about this in the next chapter Using fonts In the example below notice the P in each font name which indicates that all fonts are of portrait orientation E P This page is of single font orientation E 1H elvetical4i2 PL Font name is H elvetical 4i2 P E 2H elvetical0i2 PL Font name is H elvetica10i2 P E 3H elvetica8Bi2 PL Font name is H elvetica8i 2B P Margins and all other job contents E XL Including a font of landscape orientation here would cause the printer to start a new page whenever it encountered a change from landscape to portrait font or vice versa within the document At the end of the job your Summary Sheet would print an error message Purpose Syntax Sets the starting boundary of a print job with both portrait and landscape orientations on the same page E Q commentL Q Instruction to start a document having mixed orientations Optional request for a Summary Sheet to report errors upon execution of the next job command comment Optional comment on a Summary Sheet L Line end 2 16 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Where to place it At the start of the document data Example To begin a job having mixed font orientations with a Summary Sheet having the comment This page has two font orient
59. Margin Top Purpose Syntax Where to place it Margin Bottom Sets the top margin without affecting the other margins zn Instruction to set top margin T The distance in units of 1 60 or 1 300 inch from the top edge of the page to the baseline of the characters in the first line of text to be printed L Line end After the Units command before any printable data on the page for which it is to take effect If the command is placed within printable data it takes effect on the next page Purpose Syntax Where to place it Sets the bottom margin without affecting the other margins EzqBL zq Instruction to set bottom margin B The distance in units of 1 60 or 1 300 inch from the bottom edge of the page to the baseline of the characters in the last line of text to be printed L Line end After the Units command before any printable data on the page for which it is to take effect If the command is placed within printable data it takes effect on the next page XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 43 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Margin Left Purpose Syntax Where to place it Sets the left margin without affecting other margin settings zk Instruction to set left margin L The distance in units of 1 60 or 1 300 inch from the left edge of the page to where the left side of the first character in each line is to be printed L Line end After the Units comm
60. Number of Copies The Printer Reset command restores the printer to its default settings This command deletes any temporary fonts and macros from memory and prints any data remaining in the printer buffer It is recommended to use the Printer Reset command at the beginning of each job Hex 1B 45 Dec 2769 Purpose Syntax Example The Number of Copies command causes the 4213 to print a specified number of copies for each page of data received until either the number of copies is changed or a Printer Reset command is issued This command can be issued anywhere within a page and acts on the current page and all subsequent pages E amp l X where is the number of copies to print between 1 and 99 To select 10 copies of a single page of document enter E amp 110X Hex 1B 26 6C 313058 Dec 2738108 49 48 88 3 14 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION 1 sided 2 sided Purpose The 4213 can print on one side 1 sided or both sides 2 sided of a page Syntax E l s Hex 1B 26 6C 53 Dec 2738108 83 where 0 is1 sided 1 is 2 sided long edge binding 2 is 2 sided short edge binding 2 sided printing is not supported in the LJ Series 2D emulation when the manual bypass feature is used Left O ffset Registration Purpose This command specifies the position of the logical page across the width short side of the physical page Syntax E amp l u Hex 1B 26 6C
61. PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 47 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Tabs Vertical Purpose Syntax Where to place it Example More Defines tabs down the page measuring from the top edge of the page Once vertical tabs are set whenever you press the vertical tab key on the host computer the printer skips from the current text position to the next vertical tab position Evwnln n125 L v Instruction to set vertical tabs n1 n2 n125 Tab settings starting from the top edge Up to 125 tabs can be set in one command Commas Separate values The positions of the first tab and tab intervals for U S and international paper both landscape and portrait appears in table 2 5 The printer maintains up to 125 vertical tabs in memory per job See table 2 6 for maximum tab values for portrait and landscape pages in letter and legal size L Line end At the start of the job or anywhere a vertical tab is desired Figures 2 9 and 2 10 show a line of tabs down an 216 x 279 mm landscape page Figure 2 9 shows the settings in units of five pixels 1 60 inches Figure 2 10 shows the same settings in units of one pixel 1 300 inches Up to 125 vertical tabs may be set per job If you attempt to tab past the bottom margin the printer will skip to the top margin of the following page 2 48 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Table 2 5 Initial vertical tab positions and tab interv
62. Position Spots 3 28 to 3 29 Horizontal Motion Index 3 25 Horizontal Rectangle Size Decipoints 3 54 Horizontal Rectangle Size Spots 3 54 Left O ffset Registration 3 15 Line Spacing 3 26 Line Termination 3 32 to 3 33 Macro Control 3 60 to 3 61 Macro ID 3 60 Number of Copies 3 14 Orientation 3 21 Page Length 3 19 to 3 20 Page Size 3 18 to 3 19 Paper Source 3 17 to 3 18 Perforation Region 3 24 to 3 25 Pitch 3 38 to 3 39 Printer Reset 3 14 Push Pop Cursor Position 3 34 Raster Graphics Presentation M ode 3 52 Raster Graphics Resolution 3 51 to 3 52 Right Margin 3 22 Spacing 3 38 Start Graphics 3 52 to 3 53 Symbol Set 3 36 to 3 37 Style 3 40 Stroke W eight 3 41 to 3 42 Text Length 3 23 to 3 24 Top Margin 3 23 Top Offset Registration 3 16 Transfer Raster Data 3 53 to 3 54 Transparent D ata 3 45 Typeface 3 42 to 3 44 Underline 3 45 to 3 46 Vertical Cursor Position Decipoints 3 30 to 3 31 Vertical Cursor Position Rows 3 29 to 3 30 Vertical Cursor Position Spots 3 31 Vertical Motion Index 3 25 to 3 26 Vertical Rectangle Size Decipoints 3 55 Vertical Rectangle Size Spots 3 55 hexadecimal decimal binary equivalences D 8 t to D 13t HMI see Horizontal Motion Index Horizontal Cursor Position Columns 3 27 Horizontal Cursor Position Decipoints 3 27 to 3 28 Horizontal Cursor Position Spots 3 28 to 3 29 Horizontal Motion Index 3 25 Horizontal Rectangle Size Decipoints 3 54 Ho
63. Printable contents of job E XL Reset To prevent this switch the order of Merge Page Unload and M ultiple Copies E4PL EWL E C3L Printable contents of job E XL A constant page is also erased when fonts are downloaded when a selected font is deleted when a new constant page is loaded or when the printer is powered off Merge Start For as long as a constant page is kept in memory it can be selected for merging The commands for merging are Merge Start e Merge Stop Merge Page Start and Merge Page Stop are entered on the variable page Purpose Starts merging the constant page with the variable page 2 76 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Syntax Where to place it Eze ze Instruction for constant page merging Anywhere on the variable page after Print Job More The printer continues merging the page with subsequent pages until it receives a Merge Stop or a Reset command If no merge page is in memory when the command is received the printer ignores the command Merge Stop Purpose Stops the merging of the constant page with the variable page Syntax Ezd zd Instruction to stop merging W here to place it Within the contents of the last page you want merged The page in which Merge Stop is entered will be merged but the subsequent page will not Graphics on the 4213 Graphics supported on the 4213 include e Raste
64. R PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Where to place it Example More Load Translation Table At the start of the job To move the symbol from its current hex location of 25H to a new location at 7EH enter E L ES40500FC2500FFXL The data record in this example is summarised below S 4 05 00FC2500 FF XL A data record always begins with the letter S 4 is used here The use of other numbers excludes certain fonts Use 05 as the byte count to move one character at a time The data following the byte count consists of the the hex values of the character or characters being assigned Always put FF at the end of each record To move more characters make additional records X and L together terminate table loading and should be included after the FF in the last record The Reset command returns the printer to the default language Purpose Syntax Loads a special translation table for Laserpage software This command performs the same function as the E T command but does not cause a page eject Ezt XEROX 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 113 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Language Purpose Switches the printer from the current character table to another character table zl Instruction to change character table C The table selected U S English U K English French Dutch Spanish Italian Danish Norwegian Finnish
65. RAM MER REFEREN CE TABLE OF CONTENTS Serial interface 1 11 Select the serial interface 1 11 Set baud rate 1 12 Set parity 1 12 Set flow control 1 13 Return to printer operation 1 13 RS232 serial connector 1 13 Serial interface features supported 1 14 Serial signals and pin assignments 1 14 Null modem 1 15 2 XES command language mode 2 1 Configuring the 4213 for the XES command language mode 2 1 Automatic mode switching 2 1 The mode change command 2 2 The reset command 2 2 Definition of a printer command 2 3 Command syntax as expressed in this chapter 2 3 Three types of escape sequences 2 3 Job control commands 2 4 Simple commands 2 5 Commands with user entered variables 2 5 The User Defined Key or substitute escape character 2 5 Showing commands in printed output 2 6 Converting the User Defined Key to a printable character 2 6 Printing the sequence U D K as text 2 7 Cancelling a User Defined Key 2 7 Tips on selecting a UDK 2 8 Line end 2 8 vi XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE TABLE OF CONTENTS How the printer defines a page 2 9 Page orientation 2 9 Font orientation 2 9 Coordinates units of measure and paper feed direction 2 10 Determining the paper feed edge 2 11 Page capacity 2 12 Setting job boundaries 2 13
66. RANSEN FOR LASERKLASS 1 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE iii O perational safety Notice Your Xerox equipment and supplies were designed and tested to meet strict safety requirements These include safety agency examination approval and compliance with established environmental standards WARNING Improper connection of the equipment grounding conductor can result in electrical shock Attention to the following notes ensures the continued safe operation of your equipment Never use a multi plug adaptor to plug multiple power plugs into the same outlet Never attempt any maintenance function that is not specifically described in this guide Never operate the equipment if you notice unusual noises or odors Disconnect the power cord from the power source receptacle and call your Rank Xerox customer service engineer to correct the problem If you need any additional safety information concerning the equipment or Xerox supplied materials call your RX sales representative Specifications described in this publication are subject to change without notice Use of some features may be limited by your hardware or software configuration Consult your sales representative for details XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE Related publications Title Xerox 4213 Laser Printer User Guide Xerox 4213 Laser Printer Programmer Reference Xerox Coax Twinax O ption XCTO Programm
67. RS232 C DTE standards Select the serial interface 1 Press the Online H button 2 Press the Menu A button 3 Press the Last Page c button until HOST INTERFACE appears XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 1 11 INTERFACES 4 Press the Test B button 5 Press the Last Page button c until SERIAL appears 4 Press the Select D button to select SERIAL Set baud rate Once SERIAL is selected baud rate parity and flow control can be set With SERIAL appearing on the User Interface 1 Press the Test B button 2 Press the Last Page c button until BAUD RATE appears 3 Press the Test B button 4 Press the Last Page c button to scroll through the baud rate options 1 200 2 400 4 800 9 600 19 200 9 600 is the factory default 5 Press the Select D button once your chosen baud rate appears Set parity With the baud rate appearing on the User Interface follow these Steps 1 Press the Menu A button 2 Press the Last Page c button until PARITY appears 3 Press the Test B button 4 Press the Last Page c button to scroll through the parity options 7 BIT ODD 7 BIT EVEN 7 BIT MARK 7 BIT SPACE 8 BIT ODD 8 BIT EVEN 8 BIT NONE 8 BIT NONE is the factory default 5 Press the Select D button to select parity Note ForLJ2D emulation 8 data bit mode is required 1 12 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE INTERFACES Set flow control With
68. S English A 12 4213 4213 configuring for XES commands 2 1 to 2 5 fonts 2 29 to 2 37 graphics 2 71 to 2 79 LPS character codes 2 107 to 2 108 A a4 paper throughput 4 10 t Absolute Line Spacing 2 56 to 2 57 absolute placement landscape font 2 60 f portrait font 2 59 f Absolute Text Placement 2 57 to 2 58 E 1t allocation VM and font cache 4 13t Amphenol 36 pin connector 1 3 Index approvals EME iii to iv safety iv Arc Graphic 2 95 to 2 97 Arcs 2 96 f to 2 97 f Area Fill ID 3 55 fill patterns 3 56 f shading density 3 57 f ASCII code assignments D 3 mappings Danish N orwegian A 7 Dutch A 4 Finnish Swedish A 8 French A 3 German A 9 Italian A 6 Spanish A 5 U K English A 2 U S English A 1 asynchronous serial signals and pin assignments 1 15 automatic mode switching 2 1 to 2 2 B Backspace BS 3 35 D 1 base table 2 118 to 2 120 baud rate set 1 12 Belgian 3270 EBCDIC code mappings A 10 t binary data 3 12 binary hexadecimal decimal equivalences D 8 t to D 13t Bold Start Bold Stop 2 68 booleans 4 6 to 4 9 setdojamrecovery 4 5 Box Graphic 2 79 2 98 within a window 2 99 f building the file 2 117 to 2 118 Bypass Slot Paper Size 2 22 to 2 24 Bypass tray paper size selections 2 23 t byte count 2 111 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE INDEX 1 INDEX f FIGU RE t TABLE C cable length 1 1t centreing 2 52 character formatting 2 68
69. The printer justifies text by varying spaceL between all the words on the line However the L printer does not make line ending or hyphenationL decisions You must enter the appropriate lineL Ek ends for each line L More The minimum distance between words cannot be less than half the space character nor can it be more than three times the space character If these guidelines are not followed the printer will not justify the line When justifying a single line of text enter a line end before the Justification Stop command For example EjThis is a single line of text to be justified LEk You can justify an entire document by giving the Justification Start command at the beginning of the text However to improve the appearance of the text you may want to enter the Justification Stop command before the last line of each paragraph then at the beginning of the next paragraph enter another Justification Start XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 53 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Centre Purpose Centres a line of text between the left and right margins q Instruction to centre a line of text Where to place it Anywhere within the line to be centred Example To produce To centre text between the left and right margins use this command Enter EqTo centre textL Eqbetween the left and T E qright margins L E quse this command L More Since the line end itself acts as a signal to stop centreing you
70. XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Where to place it More Example Sx Sy L The origin of the graphic window X is the distance along the page s x axis from the page s origin to the graphic window s origin Y is the distance along the page s y axis from the page origin to the graphic window origin The size of the graphic window in the horizontal and vertical directions respectively Sx is the number of pixels making up the size in the horizontal direction measured from the graphic window origin Sy is the number of pixels making up the size in the vertical direction measured from the graphic window origin Line end At any place within the document where graphics are desired Fields before the semicolon in the command are optional fields after it are required Thus you could leave the M and R fields blank the printer will still create a window based on the values entered for X Y Sx Sy If you enter a value for R but none for M and then commas must be inserted in place of M and The command for such a window looks like this if 180 rotation is chosen Egw 2 900 3000 600 450L To create a graphic window e With no magnification Filled with vector commands Whose origin is located 900 pixels on the x axis 3000 pixels on the y axis from the origin of the page e Measuring from its own origin 600 pixels along its x axis 450 pixels on its y axis E
71. XEROX Xerox 4213 Laser Printer Programmer Reference May 1992 720P40020 Rank Xerox Limited Parkway Marlow Buckinghamshire S17 1YL England 1992 by Rank Xerox Limited All rights reserved Copyright protection claimed includes all forms and matters of copyrightable material and information now allowed by statutory or judicial law or hereinafter granted including without limitation material generated from the software programs which are displayed on the screen such as icons screen displays looks etc Printed in the EEC Xerox Rank Xerox and all Xerox products mentioned in this publication are trademarks of Xerox Corporation and Rank Xerox Limited O ther company trademarks are also acknowledged Centronics and all Centronics products mentioned in this publication are trademarks of Centronics Data Computer Corporation Data Products and all Data Products products mentioned in this publication are trademarks of H ewlett Packard Company IBM and all IBM products mentioned in this publication are trademarks of International Business M achines Hewlett Packard and HP are registered trademarks of Hewlett Packard Company Microsoft is a U S registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation PostScript and all PostScript products mentioned in this publication are trademarks of Adobe systems PostScript font trademarks Times Helvetica New Century Schoolbook and Palatino are registered trademarks of Linoty
72. a line of tabs across an 216 by 279 mm portrait page Figure 2 7 shows the settings in units of five pixels 1 60 inches Figure 2 8 shows the same settings in units of one pixel 1 300 inches Up to 160 horizontal tabs may be set per job If you try to set more the printer will consider all tabs to the right of the last tab setting as spaces This will affect the appearance of the page Table 2 4 Default values for horizontal tabs 1st tab Intervals U S International International landscape portrait landscape 1 1 inch 1 1 inch 1 04 inch 1 04 inch 28 mm 28 mm 26 4 mm 26 4 mm 330 dots 330 dots 313 dots 313 dots 0 44 inch 0 44 inches 0 48 inches 0 48 inches 11 2mm 11 2mm 12 2 mm 12 2 mm 132dots 132 dots 144 dots 144 dots 2 46 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Tabs Clear Horizontal Figure 2 7 1 60 inch units Et90 150 160 210 255 270 330 345 390 420L Figure 2 8 1 300 inch units E t450 750 800 1050 1275 1350 1650 1725 1950 21001 Purpose Syntax W here to place it More Clears all horizontal tab settings in a job including the default settings d Instruction to clear all horizontal tab settings Anywhere before the place in the job at which the current tab settings are to be cleared If horizontal tabs are cleared and no new ones are set the printer considers a horizontal tab character as a space XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER
73. able 1 3 Centronics interface voltage and current requirements Voltage levels 0 zero and 5 VDC nominal TTI SN 74LS00 series Logic levels Positive logic is assumed A logic one high signal is defined as a voltage in the range of 2 4V to 5V not to exceed a peak of 5 5V A logic zero low signal is defined as a voltage in the range of 0 0V to 0 4V not to exceed a peak negative voltage of 0 5V However for received signals a voltage of up to 0 8V is recognised as a logic zero Current The printer interface sources up to 15 ma at requirements 2 4V for a high output signal and sinks up to 14 ma for a low output 74LS374 ICs are used for data receivers with 1K ohm pull up resistors and 74LS244 ICs are used as drivers for Acknowledge Busy Select etc Data rates The 4213 supports burst data rates of up to 50 Kbytes per second for at least 512 bytes D ataproducts 2260 Select the D ataproducts parallel interface The Dataproducts parallel interface is selected through the User Interface 1 Press the Online H button 2 PresstheMenu button 3 Press the Last Page c button until HOST INTERFACE appears XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 1 7 INTERFACES D ataproducts connector 4 Press the Test B button 5 Press the Last Page c button until PARALLEL DPROD appears 6 Press the Select D button to select Dataproducts parallel The use of a pigtail conversion cable
74. abs Vertical 2 48 to 2 51 Text Placement Absolute 2 57 to 2 60 Text Placement Relative 2 60 to 2 62 Underline Start U nderline Stop 2 69 Units 1 60 2 38 Units 1 300 2 38 XES commands ignored by the 4213 laser printer E 1t XES commands to avoid on the 4213 laser printer E 2 t XES compatibility E 1 to E 2 IN D EX 10 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE
75. acter the character is printed 3 34 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Font commands Backspace BS BS hexadecimal 08 decimal 8 moves the cursor left by the width of the last printed character or space With fixed pitch fonts the backspace distance is the current Horizontal Motion Index HMI With proportionally spaced fonts a single backspace centres the new character over the character to the left When multiple backspaces are used each backspace moves back by the width of the last character printed regardless of the width of the character being backspaced over Horizontal Tab HT HT hexadecimal 09 decimal 9 moves the cursor to the next tab position on the row Tab positions are defined at the left margin and every eight columns thereafter Line Feed LF LF hexadecimal 0A decimal 10 moves the cursor down one row within the same column The height of the row is defined by the current Vertical Motion Index VMI which has been set by a VMI or a Line Spacing command Form Feed FF FF hexadecimal OC decimal 12 moves the cursor to the same column on the top line of the next page When you select a font the 4213 printer searches its memory for one that most closely matches your choice The printer selects the best fit according to eleven font characteristics in order of importance Symbol set Spacing Pitch Height Style XERO X 421
76. age orientation As shown in figures 2 11 and 2 12 Text Placement Absolute places portrait fonts differently than landscape fonts When you are placing text with portrait fonts the command defines the starting point for the baseline of the first character When you are placing text with landscape fonts the command defines the top left corner of the character cell of the first character 2 58 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Figure 2 11 Absolute placement of a portrait font on a short edge feed portrait page Fal500 3000L He who laughs He who laughs X 3000 4 X 1500 XEROX 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Text Placement Relative Figure 2 12 Absolute placement of a landscape font on a short edge feed landscape page Ea1800 6001 The game is not over until it s over Origin X1800 The game is not over until it S over Purpose Places text in any specified location on the page starting from the current text position It can also be used to place logos signatures or any other data that has been digitised into font characters 2 60 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Syntax Where to place it More Example r The instruction for relative placement D A character indicating the direction from the current
77. als 1st tab 1 1 inch 28 mm 330 dots Intervals 1 0 inch 17 8 mm 210 dots U S landscape 1 1 inch 28 mm 330 dots 0 7 inches 17 8 mm 210 dots International International portrait landscape 1 0 inch 0 95 inches 25 4 mm 23 1 mm 300 dots 287 dots 1 0 inches 0 7 inches 25 4 mm 17 8 mm 300 dots 210 dots Table 2 6 Maximum values for vertical tabs Letter Units portrait 1 60 1 300 8 5 x 13 Letter landscape Legal Legal portrait landscape 510 2550 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 49 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Figure 2 9 Vertical tabs in 1 60 inch units FV90 120 150 160 210 255 270 330 345 390 420 450L 2 50 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Figure 2 10 Vertical tabs in 1 300 inch units E V 450 600 750 800 1050 1275 1350 1650 1725 1959 2100 2250L XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Tabs Clear Vertical Purpose Syntax Where to place it More Clears all vertical tab settings in a job e Instruction to clear all vertical tab settings Anywhere before the place in the job at which the current tab settings are to be cleared If vertical tabs are cleared and no new ones are set the printer considers any vertical tab character encountered in the document as a page end Justifying and centreing between margins About
78. and before any printable data on the page for which it is to take effect Margin Right Purpose Syntax Where to place it Sets the right margin without affecting the other margins zm Instruction to set right margin R The distance in units of 1 60 or 1 300 inch from the left edge of the paper to where the right side of the last character of text in the line is to be printed L Line end After the Units command before any printable data on the page for which it is to take effect About tabs The tabs commands include e Tabs Horizontal e Tabs Clear Horizontal e Tabs Vertical e Tabs Clear Vertical 2 44 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM M ER REFERENCE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE More about job boundaries More about page boundaries The tabs you enter with commands remain in effect until the printer receives either a Tab Clear or a Reset command A Tabs Clear Horizontal command clears all horizontal tabs including defaults until the end of the job or until a new Tabs Horizontal is entered A Tabs Clear Vertical command clears all vertical tabs including defaults until the end of the job or until a new Tabs Vertical If no tabs have been set for a job and a tab is indicated within its contents the printer automatically uses the following default tabs Horizontal Every sixth character from the left margin Vertical Every inch Note If no tabs have been set for a job using a portrait fon
79. ant page is created with the Merge Page Load command and remains in the printer until you do one of the following tasks Unload it with the M erge Page Unload command Load another constant page Load fonts Switch emulations Power the printer off Figure 2 17 Constant page Form Form or or constant constant page page merged with variable page XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 73 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Creating constant pages Data capacity for each Note that you start creating the document with Merge Page Load not with Print Job which is used to start most other documents A constant page is ended with either e a form feed lt FF gt e aPrint Job command E P e aPrint Job Mixed Orientation command E Q or a Reset command E X Note The Reset command E X cancels the font margin and tab assignments which have to be reassigned in the constant page to be merged Merge Page Load How the printer defines a page lists page capacity for all types of data including constant pages Data capacity is the same for both that is it is limited only by the amount of space available in the printer s memory Purpose Syntax Creates a constant page and keeps it in the printer s memory temporarily E 4M commenti M Instruction to start a constant page Optional request for a Summary Sheet to report errors upon execution of the next
80. as been created to set the printer for font loading 2 You are now ready to create File 2 which sends the commands and fonts to the printer Atthe C gt prompt enter copy con download bat Press Return copy start doc prn Press Return copy a FNT prn Press Return copy stop doc prn Press Return lt CTRL gt z Press Return XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 31 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Font Load The batch file has been created to load fonts to the printer 3 Now create File 3 which resets the printer At the C gt prompt enter copy con stop doc Press Return U DK X Font Load Complete Press Return lt CTRL gt z Press Return 4 All the necessary files have been created At the C gt enter download Press Return Downloading is complete Purpose Syntax Notes Loads fonts from storage media at the host computer to the printer E F commenth F Instruction to load font data Optional request for a Summary Sheet to report errors upon execution of the next job command comment Optional comment to be printed on the Summary Sheet L Line end When Font Load is used all the other downloaded fonts on the printer are deleted Any constant page downloaded to the printer will be deleted when fonts are loaded or added 2 32 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Font Ad
81. ation defaulttumble defaulttumble boolean Returns a boolean indicating whether tumble is on or off settumble boolean settumble This operator turns tumble on or off for the current job only Once the current job is finished tumble is set to the default tumble tumble boolean Returns a boolean indicating how text is oriented on a 2 sided page True indicates the second side of a 2 sided page is upside down compared to the first side False indicates the orientation is the same on both sides of the page XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 4 7 POSTSCRIPT EMULATION firstside firstside boolean Returns a boolean indicating whether the image being created will be printed on the first side of a logical page For the first page of a job this value is always true Tray selection operators setdefaultpapertray integer setdefaultpapertray Four selections are available with the multiple tray 4213 0 UPPER TRAY 1 LOWER TRAY 2 HCF High capacity feeder 3 MANUAL MMF When beginning a job the server selects the default paper tray and sets the size and imageable area to the size of the paper in that tray Once the job begins you can change paper trays and the imageable area in a number of ways refer to setpapertray and papername defaultpapertray defaultpapertray integer This operator returns an integer representing the default tray number set in setdefaultpapertray setpapertray int
82. ations enter E Q This page has two font orientationsL More Font selections are entered after Print Job more about this in the next chapter Using fonts In the example below notice the P for portrait and the L for landscape in the font names indicating that both orientations are used E Q This page has two font orientationsL E 1Helvetical2i2 PL Font name is H elvetical2i2 P E 2Helvetical0i2 PL Font name is H elvetica10i2 P E 3Helvetica8Bi2 PL Font name is H elvetica8Bi2 P E 3Titan14B LL Font name is Titan14B L Margins and all other job contents E XL Reset Purpose Sets the boundary marking the end of the job and returns parameters to the default settings X Instruction to end the job Optional request for a Summary Sheet to report errors upon execution of the next job command comment O ptional comment on a Summary Sheet L Line end W here to place it After all job data Example To end a job request a Summary Sheet and include the comment This job is now complete enter E X This job is now completeL XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 17 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE More Formatting the printed output Once the printer receives the Reset command all parameters set by the other commands are cancelled including font indexes and the UDK Using a Print Job rather than a Reset command to end one document and start the next instructs the p
83. bT X1 Y1 X2 Y2L gb Instruction to create a graphic box T Line thickness of the figure The maximum value is 16 pixels No error message is generated if a greater value is entered The width is distributed equally on the inside and outside of the box The 4213 adjusts the width if it cannot be distributed equally The semicolon is required If it is omitted the command is ignored Commas separate the other variables XLY1 The coordinates of the first of two points that make up diagonally opposite corners X1 is the horizontal distance from the left edge of the graphic window Y1 is the vertical distance from the top edge of the graphic window X2 Y2 The coordinates of the second of two points Ts Line end If a value for X1 is omitted the printer will use the x coordinate from the current graphic position If this box is the first graphic drawn in the window the x coordinate of the window origin is substituted as the x value of the corner If a value for Y1 is omitted the printer will use the y coordinate from the current graphic position If this box is the first graphic drawn in the window the y coordinate of the window origin is substituted as the y value of the corner To create the box in figure 2 30 e Drawn with a line seven pixels thick e The coordinates of one corner set at 75 225 in the graphic window 2 98 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE e The dia
84. be selected with the Language command The new table becomes language H XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 121 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE 2 122 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 LJ series 2D emulation The LJ2D emulation can accept fonts from a variety of sources Some fonts are built into the 4213 printer Others may be accessed from a cartridge or downloaded from a file This chapter describes fonts and the font handling capabilities of the LJ2D emulation and covers the following topics Font compatibility Primary and secondary fonts Font characteristics Font selection Resident fonts Font compatibility The LJ2D emulation accepts Soft Fonts designed for the HP LaserJet HP LaserJet and HP Laserjet Il printers These fonts may be supplied by Rank Xerox or third party vendors The 4213 LJ2D emulation is also capable of using fonts stored in Xerox 4213 font cartridges These cartridges may hold up to one megabyte of fonts but are not physically compatible with LaserJet font cartridges Rank Xerox supplies a range of 4213 font cartridges which provide the same features as the HP LaserJet font cartridges Although fonts used in the LJ2D emulation are comparable to the HP LaserJet fonts there may be some variance in appearance between characters from different sources Primary and secondary fonts The LJ2D emulation allows the user to select two fonts a primary and a
85. can be entered into an index with Font ID Assignment you can use more fonts by reassigning font ID numbers within the document For example if you were using the font index created above in a report in one part of the report you can use font 3 as it is assigned above by entering E 43Classiciso12 LT In another part of the report you can replace this font with another by entering E 43Classic14iso LT Unless fonts are reassigned with a new Font ID Assignment the font assignments extend across job boundaries until a Reset command is received It is also possible to give more than one ID number to a font in such a case you can use either number with the Font Change command to select that font If you try to assign an index number to a font that is not available the printer ignores all references to that ID number and prints an error message on the Summary Sheet Since the font ID number is ignored the text continues to print in the current font 2 36 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Font Select Purpose Syntax Where to place it Example More Setting units of measure Selects a font from those listed in the index created with Font ID Assignment n The ID number for the font from 0 to 9 Anywhere in the document at which you want to use this font From the following index E 0Classic8iso LL E41Classic8Biso LL E42Classic6iso LL E 4
86. cing L More Overstriking of characters may occur when half line spacing is selected it may also occur if a line is placed using a Vertical Tabs Text Placement Relative or Text Placement Absolute command Line Spacing Absolute Purpose Adjusts the amount of spacing between lines of text Unlike Line Spacing which is font based Line Spacing Absolute adjusts spacing pixel by pixel Syntax ip Instruction for interline spacing n The new line spacing expressed in pixels 1 300th inch or 08 mm L Line end 2 56 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Where to place it Example These lin Immediately before the beginning of the line for which the new spacing is intended preferably at the end of the previous line Enter es of text have normal single liner spacing until you enter a Line Spacing Absoluter command with a parameter of 75 Eip75L At this point the baselines of the text arer placed 75 pixels one quarter inch apart like this Ei0L To return to the previous line spacing enterL Line Spacing or Line Spacing Absolute with the original spacing value L or if at th More Text Placement Absolute e end of the job issue E x to reset to defaults L To produce These lines of text have normal single line spacing until you enter a Line Spacing Absolute command with a parameter of 75 Atthis point the baselines of the text are placed
87. commands Control codes Escape sequences Control codes are single byte commands which perform simple functions such as backspace carriage return line feed and form feed In most cases control codes are taken from the unprintable part of the ASCII character set which covers the decimal values from 0 to 31 hexadecimal 00 to 1F If a character set includes printable characters with values below decimal 31 the Transparent Data command E amp p X may be used to access the characters Control codes usually elicit an immediate response from the printer and do not perform any deferred or preparatory functions The only exception is the escape character hexadecimal 1B decimal 27 which is prefixed to a command to tell the printer that the data which follows is a command to be executed and not text to be printed XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CEE 3 9 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Escape sequences Escape sequences are multi character commands preceded by the escape character Escape sequences may or may not have parameters Escape sequences with parameters Escape sequences with parameters either access a specific feature of the printer such as a font or transmit variable data such as margin settings These escape sequences are subdivided as follows Escape character e Variable sequence character Group character Numeric variable Parameter character Final parameter character
88. ctangle Size Decipoints command defines in decipoints 720ths of an inch the height of the next rectangle to be drawn E c V Hex 1B 2A 63 56 Dec 274299 86 where is a number up to four decimal places representing the height of the rectangle in decipoints Purpose Syntax Area Fill ID The Vertical Rectangle Size Spots command defines in spots 300ths of an inch the height of the next rectangle to be drawn Hex 1B 2A 63 42 Dec 274299 66 where is an integer representing the height of the rectangle in spots Purpose Syntax The Area Fill ID command sets the level of shading or type of fill pattern to be used when filling a rectangular area There are six fill patterns and eight densities of shading Each of the fill patterns is identified by a number between 1 and 6 Each shading density covers a range of values from 1 to 100 Hex 1B 2A 63 47 Dec 274299 71 where is a value between 1 and 6 for a fill pattern or between 1 and 100 for shading see figures 3 5 and 3 6 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 55 Area Fill patterns 1 6 Figure 3 5 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION ede XXX XX KRING XXX XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE 3 56 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Figure 3 6 Area Fill shading density 11 20 21 35 36 55 56 80 Note A Fill Rectangular Area command must follow an Area Fill ID command The Fill Re
89. ctangular Area command specifies whether the rectangle is to be filled with shading or one of the fill patterns XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Fill Rectangular Area Purpose Syntax Examples of filled rectangles The Fill Rectangular Area command prints the rectangle defined by the Vertical and Horizontal Rectangle Size commands and specifies whether it is to be filled with shading one of the fill patterns or solid black For solid black fill the Area Fill ID command is not required For shading or a fill pattern the Area Fill ID command must be used ahead of the Fill Rectangular Area command The rectangle is printed with its top left corner at the current cursor position which is unaffected by the command The command ignores text boundaries but any part of the rectangle falling outside of the printable area is not printed E c P Hex 1B 2A 63 50 Dec 274299 80 where is a value from table 3 14 Table 3 14 Fill types for rectangular areas g Rectangle Fill Type o Solid Black Fill Example 1 To printa 2 by 3 inch rectangle enter the following commands 1 E p300x300Y M oves cursor one inch down and one inch across 3 58 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION 2 E c600A Sets rectangle width at 2 inches 3 E c900B Sets rectangle height at 3 inches 4 E cOP Prints the rectangl
90. cteristics for font selection are listed in order of priority Symbol set Spacing Pitch Height Style Stroke weight Typeface Soft font with the lowest ID number Left cartridge Right cartridge Internal font orientation If you select landscape orientation and only one landscape font is available that font will be used regardless of the other characteristics XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CEE 3 5 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Font selection by ID If more than one font matches the request after the printer compares all characteristics it chooses the font based on its source Downloaded fonts are chosen first with lower font ID numbers superseding the higher ones If no downloaded font matches the printer examines the cartridge fonts and finally the internal fonts Resident fonts When downloading fonts from a host computer you must assign an ID number with the Font ID command E c D A font can be referenced later with the command Font Selection by ID E 4X The Font Selection by ID command is not suitable for use in multi user environments where other users may delete downloaded fonts In this case users are encouraged to select all fonts by font characteristics Font assignment numbers on downloaded fonts may or may not be consecutive The numbers are only meant to be identifiers and a gap does not imply anything is missing The LJ2D emulation supports a number of typ
91. current User Defined Key is the asterisk To print the first phrase in the paragraph above enter To print ZUDK 1z within the text of your document With the sequence thus interrupted the printer does not recognise the characters as a command and prints them as text Example A User Defined Key is cancelled after the Reset command It is also cancelled whenever you reset the 4213 or switch emulations If you are using a substitute escape character or User D efined Key remember that it must be defined before it is used then defined again after a Reset The Reset command cancels a UDK To process a document clear all settings then start over enter the following UDK PL Fonts assigned Margin settings All other job contents XL UDK PL Contents of next job XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 7 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Tips on selecting a UDK Line end When selecting a UDK remember UDK must be entered exactly as shown in uppercase e You can select any printable character except Uppercase U D orK The comma The equal sign The multinational umlaut accent character combined with either U D or K e Do not use the space character or any other non printing character such as the backspace delete or control keys e Since this character must be unique in the file select one that you will not use often such as
92. d Purpose Adds fonts to previously downloaded fonts The additional fonts come to the printer from storage media at the host computer A Instruction to load font data i Optional request for a Summary Sheet to report errors upon execution of the next job command comment Optional comment to be printed on the Summary Sheet L Line end Note Any constant page downloaded to the printer will be deleted when fonts are added or loaded Font D elete Purpose Deletes selected font files from the printer fontnameL B Instruction to delete stored font file Optional request for a Summary Sheet to report errors upon execution of the next job command Note When you want to delete more than one font file separate each font file name with a comma comment O ptional comment on the Summary Sheet L A line end separates the command from the font names fontname Name of font or fonts to be deleted L Line end XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 33 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Example Font U nload To delete two fonts Classic8iso L and Classic6iso L and to request a Summary Sheet with the command These two fonts are now deleted enter E B These two fonts are now deletedL Classic8iso L Classic6iso LL File names must be entered exactly as they are named including upper and lower case letters and punctuation Purpose Syntax Example U sing fonts in a document D
93. d any new data entered into the original window also appears in the duplicate window when the document is printed The coordinates you set in the Graphic Window Repeat command define the origin of the first copy then the origins of any other copies of that window You may set coordinates for multiple copies of a window with a single Graphic Window Repeat command Each set of x and y coordinates in the command defines an origin for a copied window XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 89 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Graphic Window Repeat Note On the 4213 laser printer the number of copied windows is limited by memory unless you are operating in full bit map mode Purpose Syntax Copies a graphic window and places it on the page EigrM or Mx M y l X1 Y 1 Xn YnL gr M or Mx My XY Instruction to copy a graphic window The degree of magnification for the duplicate window Mx is horizontal magnification My vertical magnification Oorl No magnification 2 Duplicate window size doubled 4 Duplicate window size quadrupled The type of graphics data contained in the window Also whether the contents will be reversed Graphics data in a duplicate window can be changed from regular to reversed or vice versa In other words raster data can be changed to reversed raster data 0 Raster data 1 Reversed raster data 2 Vector or macro data 3 Reversed vector or macro data The sem
94. d is a lowercase version of the final parameter Final parameter character The final parameter character which also references the previous numeric variable is used to end an escape sequence The final parameter character is always uppercase Table 3 2 summarises the use of parameter and final parameter characters XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 11 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Combining escape sequences Table 3 2 Using parameter and final parameter characters U pper Lower case case ae Sequence A final parameter in a combination of escape sequences A single escape sequence A non final parameter linking a series of escape sequences Binary data The binary data is optional eight bit data which is downloaded immediately after an escape sequence The length of the binary data in bytes is normally specified by the preceding numeric variable Figure 3 3 Single Escape Sequence E s81P Escape Character Jj Final Parameter Character Variable Sequence Numeric Variable Group Character Escape sequences may be written in separate strings figure 3 3 or linked together for simplicity figure 3 4 Commands with variables may be combined if the variable sequence character and the group character are the same for each command The following rules apply The escape character the variable sequence character and the group character are omitted from all but the first escape se
95. dded to produce four characters Entry 1 of the table data applies to this location The printer assumes that all subsequent entries apply to successive hex values For example if the load address is 5BH entry 1 will be applied to hex location 5BH entry 2 will be applied to hex location 5CH entry 3 will be applied to hex location 5DH and So on Table D 8 lists hexadecimal values multiplied by two 5 Table entries The table data consists of a series of four character entries one for each location from the load address to the last location to be altered Intervening locations which do not need to be altered must be included This is done simply by reassigning their normal hex value for example by assigning 7BH to hex location 7BH The four characters include the following information e The first two characters are the new hex value being assigned to the current location For example suppose that the Japanese yen sign A5H is to be printed from an ISO font Suppose also that the backslash 5CH is not needed A downloaded table can be used to assign the hex value A5H to location 5CH If 5CH were the first table location A5H would be the first two bytes of entry lin the table data XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 111 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Character Reassignment e The second two characters of each entry are the hex location of a floating accent character to be printed along with the cha
96. ds for creating graphic images are Graphic Line Graphic Arc Graphic Box Graphic Fill Graphic Pie Chart All must be created within a graphic window which means a Graphic Window command must precede them in the job All measurements for the commands are in pixels unless otherwise indicated 2 92 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Graphic Line For the X and Y variables in the commands any number from minus 16 000 to 16 000 may be specified Negative and positive numbers outside window boundaries are acceptable but only the segment of the image within the window will print When a number for X is missing in a command the printer uses the x coordinate from the current graphic position When a number for Y is missing the printer uses the y coordinate from the current graphic position Each command includes a variable for the line thickness of the image drawn The maximum line thickness for a graphic image is 15 pixels even if you enter a larger number the line prints 15 pixels thick and no error is reported If no variable for thickness is entered in the command the printer uses three pixels as a default If a line thickness of zero is entered no image prints however the current graphic position changes to the last set of x and y coordinates entered Purpose Syntax Draws lines between any two points within the graphic window EglT XL Y1 X2 Y2 Xn YnL gl Th
97. e XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 119 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Table 2 8 Customised mapping table U S English code 2 120 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE More about creating tables The following are important points to remember about creating tables New tables are created by overlaying other tables always invoke the base table before transmitting new table data to the printer The table data may consist of one or more records The record type indicator must be selected carefully to avoid changing the wrong tables in the system The load address is always doubled The following locations are assigned to control codes to frequently used alphanumeric characters and to characters used in printer command language It is recommended that these locations not be changed Any control code location less than 20H in ISO or ASCII or less than 40H in EBCDIC ISO 30H to 39H numerals 0 to 9 EBCDIC FOH to F9H SO 41H to 5AH letters A to Z EBCDIC C1H to C9H D1H to D9H and E2H to E9H To 89H 91H to 99H and A2H to A9H ISO 20H EBCDIC 40H space character ISO 2BH EBCDIC 4EH plus sign ISO 2CH EBCDIC 6BH comma ISO 3D EBCDIC 7EH equals sign ISO 24H EBCDIC 5BH dollar sign Each record must be terminated with two F s The new table remains in the system and can
98. e as shown in the double hex values listed in table D 8 the load address for this table is B8 Since the load address must always be four characters in length the value to be included as the load address is 00B8 Next build the entries to be included in the table e The first entry at location 5C is to contain the pound sign in the altered table The pound sterling sign is found in the ISO table at location A3 Since it is not to be associated with an accent character the first entry is A300 e The second entry falls at location 5D Since this location is not to be changed the entry here is 5D00 The third entry falls at 5E This location is to be changed to the yen sign which is found in the ISO table at location A5 It is not to be associated with an accent so the third entry is A500 e The fourth entry at 5F is not to be changed 5F00 e The fifth entry at 60 is to be changed to the international currency symbol from location A8 in the ISO table The fifth entry is A800 Thus far including the load address and the five entries the table record consists of the following characters 00B8A3005D 00A5005F00A800 Adding two F s to the end of the record yields 00B8A3005D 00A5005F00A800FF It is now possible to determine the byte count to be included in the record one load address four characters plus five 4 character entries plus two F s yields 4 5X4 2 26 The byte count is one half
99. e degrees as many as desired If either point is missing from the pair the other is ignored and an error message appears on the Summary Sheet The starting degree cannot be the same as the ending degree Degrees must be positive whole numbers Line end Arcs If the degree of either the starting angle Sn or the ending angle En is missing the printer ignores the command If neither a starting nor an ending degree is indicated the printer draws a complete circle 2 96 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Example To create the four arcs in figure 2 29 with the following specifications Drawn with a line 13 pixels thick e Having the same centre point at coordinates 375 375 in the graphic window e With a radius of 225 pixels Drawn as follows Arc 1 from 45 degrees to 135 degrees Arc 2 from 155 degrees to 205 degrees Arc 3 from 225 degrees to 315 degrees Arc 4 from 335 degrees to 25 degrees Enter Fgal3 375 375 225 45 135 155 205 225 315 335 25L Figure 2 29 Four arcs drawn with one command XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 97 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Graphic Box Purpose Syntax More Example Draws a rectangle by defining two sets of right angles Two coordinates define the diagonal corners The printer then fills in the vertical and horizontal lines for the top bottom and sides Eig
100. e Top Margin command sets the distance between the top of the printable area and the top of the text regardless of paper orientation The top margin is defined as a number of lines The height of the lines is determined by the Vertical Motion Index VMI command which sets the vertical spacing of lines The VMI is used as a unit of measurement for setting the margin but once set the margin does not change with later VMI commands where is the number of the line on which text starts Example To set the top margin at six lines enter E amp I6E Hex 1B 26 6C 3645 Dec 27 38 108 54 69 Text Length Purpose The Text Length command sets the number of lines on which text may be printed If the Vertical Motion Index VMI is zero or the sum of the text length and the top margin is greater than the length of the printable area the command is ignored XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 23 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Perforation Region Syntax Example The text length is set to the user default whenever the page orientation length size or top margin is changed The user default is calculated as the quotient integer of the following equation Printable Area Length TopM argin 48 VMI where Printable Area Length and Top Margin are measured in inches where is the number of lines of text required To set a text length of 55 lines enter E amp I55F Hex 1B 26 6C 35 35 46 Dec 2738108 53 53 70 Pur
101. e as a black area Example 2 To print a 2 by 3 inch rectangle with 5096 shading enter the following commands 1 E p300x300Y M oves cursor one inch down and one inch across 2 E c600A Sets rectangle width at 2 inches 3 E c900B Sets rectangle height at 3 inches 4 E c50G Uses an Area Fill ID of 50 5 E c2P Prints the shaded rectangle Example 3 To print a 2 by 3 inch rectangle filled with a grid pattern instead of shaded follow steps 1 through 3 in example 2 and replace steps 4 and 5 with the following commands 4 E c5G Uses an Area Fill pattern for a grid ID 5 5 E C3P Prints the rectangle filled with a pattern XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 59 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Macro commands Macros are single commands that execute a series of commands in sequence The two Macro commands are Macro ID Macro Control Macro ID Purpose The Macro ID command provides an ID number for the following macro commands The ID number may be in the range 0 through 32767 Syntax E amp f Y Hex 1B 26 66 59 Dec 2738102 89 where is the value of the macro ID number used Macro Control Purpose The Macro Control command can define delete and execute macros Syntax E amp fX Hex 1B26 66 58 Dec 2738102 88 where is a value shown in table 3 15 Notes A temporary macro is automatically deleted during a printer reset The temporary macro is the default
102. e bottom edge of the paper Adding a margin of 50 pixels results in a new origin of 300 1200 See figure 2 22 Figure 2 22 Changing placement for a magnified window 2 86 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Reversing images Rotating images Figure 2 23 illustrates how the printer reverses a graphic image when instructed within the Graphic Window command Figure 2 23 Normal printing and reversed printing Figure 2 24 illustrates how the printer rotates a graphic window and its contents if so instructed within the Graphic Window command Notice how rotation affects graphic window positioning and how images look when rotated 90 degrees 180 degrees and 270 degrees Rotation is counterclockwise The window origin remains the same XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 87 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Figure 2 24 Graphic window rotation Graphic commands and the current text position If you do not specify coordinates for a graphic window origin within the graphic window command the printer will use the current text position that is wherever the next character of text would be as a default point for the graphic window origin Otherwise text positioning and graphic window positioning are independent from one another If you place a graphic window at the current text position on a page and add a paragraph to text above the graphic window the wi
103. e instruction to draw a graphic line T The thickness of the line The maximum value is 16 No error message is generated if a greater value is entered f The semicolon is required If it is omitted the command is ignored Commas separate the other variables XLY1 The coordinates of the first point in the line X is the horizontal distance from the left edge of the graphic window Y is the vertical distance from the top edge of the graphic window X2 Y2 The coordinates of the second point in the line Xn Yn The coordinates of the next point in the line Th Line end XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 93 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE More Example You can have as many sets of coordinates for a line as desired If the value for X1 is omitted the printer uses the x coordinate from the current graphic position If this line is the first graphic image drawn in the window the x coordinate of the window origin is substituted for the x value If the value for Y1 is omitted the printer substitutes the y coordinate from the current graphic position If this line is the first graphic drawn in the window the y coordinate of the window origin is used as the y value If the value for X2 is omitted the printer repeats the first x coordinate Xi For all succeeding coordinates the x coordinate of the preceding point is used as a default if a new value is missing If the value for Y2 is omitted the printer
104. e window A line with Graphic Line It consists of five segments between six pair of coordinates 2 100 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE e The last command Graphic Fill selects pattern 7 and defines one seed point in the closed figure made by the line and two sides of the rectangle Shown in the figure is the seed point location at coordinates 170 250 Egw1 2 300 300L Egb5 3 3 297 297L Egl 3 3 100 250 150 200 200 200 250 150 297 297L Egf7 170 2501 Figure 2 32 Fill pattern bounded by a graphic figure More If 0 for a user defined pattern is entered for P the fill pattern data is entered after the line end of the Graphic Fill command User defined data must be sixel encoded Refer to appendix C for information on sixel encoding You cannot fill an area with more than one pattern A fill must start in a closed figure that is one surrounded by printed lines However the edge of the window can also serve as a boundary for a fill The edge of the page cannot serve as a boundary for a fill XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 101 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Example Nongraphic line commands Line Draw X and Line Draw Y cannot contain fill patterns even when defined within the boundaries of a graphic window Notice in figure 2 33 that the pattern is contained only at the boundaries of the closed graphic images Figure 2 33 is created i
105. ead 2 sided printing means that the page is printed in the same position on both the front and back pages This manual is printed in regular head to head 2 sided page format zyd Instruction to start 2 sided printing n The number of pixels by which the margin of the second page is shifted If no value is entered for n the second page is printed without shifting The left margin is shifted regardless of the page orientation L Line end Where to place it Before printable data on the first page to be printed 2 sided If 2 sided is entered after the printable data it takes effect on the next page rather than on the current one More If you choose to shift margins ensure that the margins have been set within page boundaries so that none of the text runs off the page Both 2 sided and 2 sided Inverted are cancelled by 2 sided Stop 2 sided printing can be enabled either through the printer control panel or with the printer commands The printer commands override any defaults set through the printer control panel Note 2 sided printing is not supported in the manual bypass XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 25 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE 2 sided Inverted pad Purpose Syntax Where to place it More Enables 2 sided printing head to toe see 2 sided book for head to head It also includes the option of shifting the margins of the second page Head to toe 2 sided printing means
106. ecimal 14 allow the user to alternate between primary and secondary fonts respectively Purpose Syntax Syntax The Font ID command assigns an ID number to a font The font must then be referenced by its ID through subsequent font management commands such as Font Selection Font Control or Font Descriptor where is an ID number ranging from 0 to 32767 3 46 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Example To specify a font ID number of 2 enter E c2D Hex 1B 2A 633244 Dec 27 429950 68 Font Control Purpose The Font Control is the main command for managing downloaded fonts It deletes downloaded fonts and determines whether a Soft Font is automatically removed at a printer reset where is one of the values in table 3 11 Example To make a Soft Font with an ID of 1 temporary enter E c4F Hex 1B 2A 63 34 46 Dec 27 42995270 Table 3 11 Font Control functions Function Delete all soft fonts Delete all temporary soft fonts font ID command 3 Delete character code 4 Make downloaded font specified by last font ID command temporary 5 Make downloaded font specified by last font ID command permanent i6 Copy assign font 1 2 Delete downloaded font specified by last XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 47 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Font Selection by ID Notes Temporary downloaded fonts are removed each time the printer is
107. eed and wait timeouts A value of zero sets the timeout to infinity defaulttimeouts job manualfeed wait Returns the default job wait and manual feed timeouts in seconds integer setjobtimeout Sets the job timeout to the specified integer in seconds jobtimeout integer Returns the number of seconds the printer waits before the current job timeout occurs manualfeedtimeout integer Indicates how many seconds the printer will wait for a page to be manually fed before it cancels the job XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 4 5 POSTSCRIPT EMULATION waittimeout O utput positioning operators waittimeout integer Indicates how many seconds the printer will wait to receive more characters before it cancels the job maxoutputposition outputposition setoutputposition outputpositioning setoutputpositioning defaultoutputposition setdefaultoutputpositioning maxoutputposition integer This operator returns the value 1 outputposition integer This operator returns the value O or 1 depending on the state of the output jogger integer setoutputposition This operator accepts an integer in the range 0 to 1 The output positioning mechanism does not change to that value unless outputpositioning is true If outputpositioning is false there is no change in the output position outputpositioning boolean This operator returns a boolean value wh
108. efaces and symbol sets Table 3 1 shows the 7 builtin fonts which resemble the resident fonts in a LJ2D printer The internal fonts are Courier Courier Bold and Line Printer in portrait mode 3 6 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Table 3 1 Resident LJII fonts Typeface Weight Style et Symbols Courier Medium 0 Upright Roman 8 Courier Medium 0 Upright ECMA 94 Upright PC 850 U pright Legal XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CEE 3 7 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Table 3 1 Resident LJII fonts continued Courier Medium 0 Italic 12 10 PC 850 U pright PC 8 U pright LET PC 8 D N LinePrinter M edium 0 U pright 16 66 Legal 3 8 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Cartridge fonts PCL4 command structure Please refer to the Xerox 4213 Laser Printer User Guide for the cartridges that can be used by the LJ 2D emulation Cartridges are listed by part number Font cartridges must be installed while the 4213 is powered off Font cartridges installed while the printer is on are not recognised and may lock up the printer Control codes The LJ series 2D emulation uses a set of commands similar to the Printer Command Language PCL used to control the HP LaserJet printers HP LaserJet HP Laserjetz and HP Laserjet 500 HP Laserjet I and IID There are two types of
109. eft Right in pixels or fractions of an inch The values are separated by commas L The line end required to complete the command The User D efined Key or substitute escape character The User Defined Key UDK should be used when e The hosts escape character cannot be transmitted properly to the printer e You want a printout of a document that shows the printer commands as well as the document data Atthe start of a job enter upk character UDK Is the command to substitute an escape character character Indicates the character you have chosen for the UDK XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 5 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Showing commands in printed output Example Thereafter until the end of the job or until you specify otherwise the printer recognises the selected character as your escape character To select the asterisk as your escape character enter UDK Thereafter For Enter E B L B L Ed d Example For most jobs if the User Defined Key and other printer commands show up on the printed output then the User Defined Key has not been assigned properly You can however assign it improperly if you want your output to show the commands This is done by changing the assignment to a character other than the one used throughout the rest of the document You have created a document using the asterisk as the User Defined Key but want to change
110. eger setpapertray Selects the paper tray to be used for the current job only using the number assignments defined in setdefaultpapertray above The imageable area is set by the size of the paper in the tray This command is used to change the paper tray within a job The next job will use the tray specified by setdefaultpapertray papertray papertray integer This operator returns an integer indicating which tray to feed from for the current job The values returned are 0 UPPER TRAY 1 LOWER TRAY 2 HCF High capacity feeder 3 MANUAL MMF 4 8 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE POSTSCRIPT EMULATION setdefaulttrayswitch defaulttrayswitch settrayswitch trayswitch manualfeed lettertray boolean setdefaulttrayswitch Sets automatic tray switching on or off If this feature is turned on and the specified trays runs out of paper the printer will search other trays for the same size paper and continue printing If no paper of the same size is found then the User Interface indicates out of paper The sequence used to search the other paper trays is selectable through the User Interface and is described in appendix A4 of the 4213 User Guide defaulttrayswitch boolean This operator returns a boolean indicating whether defaulttrayswitch is on true or off false boolean settrayswitch This operator turns automatic tray switching on or off for the current job only On i
111. eletes all downloaded font files from the printer E U comment U Instruction to delete stored font files i Optional request for a Summary Sheet to report errors upon execution of the next job command comment Optional comment on the Summary Sheet L Line end To delete all fonts and to request a Summary Sheet with the comment All fonts are now deleted enter E U AII fonts are now deleted L If you are using only the default font in your document you do not need the commands discussed here However if you want to access other fonts on the printer instruct the printer with the Font ID Assignment command This command sets up your font selections in an index and assigns an identification number to each You then select from this font index at any place in the document with the Font Change command 2 34 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Font ID Assignment The most common place to enter Font ID Assignment is immediately after Print Job and any job formatting commands such as Paper Tray However you can set up an index anywhere in the document The advantage of this is that while you can index up to 10 fonts using 10 different font ID numbers with a single Font ID Assignment more than 10 may be used by repeatedly creating new indexes throughout the document The number of fonts that can be used on a page is limited only by the memory capacity of the print
112. ept on the back side of sheets printed in horizontal binding 2 sided mode where it moves down Page orientation has no effect on this command The value represents an absolute move in relation to the default position of the logical page and not the current position Positioning the logical page outside the printable area may cause loss of data Purpose Syntax This command causes the printer to skip a page while printing in 2 sided If a front or back page is being formatted while the command is sent to the printer the printer stops formatting ejects the current page and prints on the side specified by the value E amp a G where 0 selects the next side 1 selects the front side 2 selects the back side 3 16 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Example To start printing the first chapter of a document on the front side of a page enter the following command E amp alG Hex 1B 26 61 31 47 Dec 2738974971 Page control commands The page control commands define the shape and size of the page Paper Source Purpose The Paper Source command specifies one of four locations for paper or prints the current page where s is one of the values in table 3 3 Table 3 3 Paper source values ogmesw 0 o Prints the current page Tray 1 upper paper tray heme E opioa evene XEROX 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 17
113. er Up to 512 fonts including cartridge fonts can be present at the same time provided the downloaded fonts do not exceed the available memory of the printer Because there are four resident fonts 508 is the maximum number of fonts the user can download Note The 4213 may require up to 10 more internal storage for existing XES fonts from previous XES printers Purpose Syntax Where to place it Sets up a numbered index of up to 10 fonts stored on the printer These fonts can then be selected by their ID numbers in the document E nfontnameL n The instruction to assign an ID number with n being the number from 0 to 9 fontname The name of the font to correspond to this number L Line end After the Print Job command and the Paper Tray command or any point in the document where you want to select fonts XEROX 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 35 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Example More To create an index of five fonts enter E 0Classic8iso LL E41Classic8Biso LL E42Classic6iso LL E 43Classic12iso LT E 4Classic10iso LL Once the files have been assigned identification numbers they are selected by number with the Font Change command For example to select Classic8Biso L within a document enter El I The font name must be entered exactly as it is listed on the font directory including the correct uppercase and lowercase letters Although only 10 fonts
114. er Reference Xerox 4213 Laser Printer Quick Reference Guide Helpful Facts About Paper Xerox 4213 XES Quick Reference Card PostScript Language Reference Manual 1985 Adobe Systems Incorporated Addison Wesley Publishing Company Inc Sixth printing April 1987 PostScript Language Programme Design 1988 Adobe Systems Incorporated Glenn C Reid Addison Wesley Publishing Company Inc Sixth printing April 1988 PostScript Language Tutorial and Cookbook 1985 Adobe Systems Incorporated Addison Wesley Publishing Company Inc Fifth printing March 1987 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE Table of contents European EME regulations Laser safety iii Operational safety iii Notice iv Related publications iv Introduction xix Purpose of this manual XX W hat this manual contains XX Variances xxi Conventions used in this manual xxi l Interfaces 1 1 Parallel interface 1 1 Parallel interface cable 1 1 Centronics interface 1 2 Select the Centronics parallel interface 1 2 Select metered data 1 2 Return to print mode 1 2 Centronics connector 1 3 Centronics signals and pin assignments 1 4 Centronics interface timing 1 6 Dataproducts 2260 1 7 Select the Dataproducts parallel interface 1 7 Dataproducts connector 1 8 Dataproducts signals and pin assignments 1 9 Dataproducts interface timing 1 10 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO G
115. er from table 3 10 To use Swiss721 as a primary font and Courier for the secondary font enter E s4T Hex 1B 28 733454 Dec 27401155284 and E s3T Hex 1B29 733354 Dec 27411155184 3 42 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Table 3 10 Typefaces and code numbers Typeface one opem E emm 0 Bogme r Broadway EN N m Bauer Bodoni Black Condensed Century Schoolbook U niversity Roman 23 24 N N XEROX 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 43 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION D efault Font Table3 10 Typefaces and code numbers continued Typeface Century School Book Note Names of typefaces are registered trademarks Use of typefaces may be subject to licensing agreements Purpose Syntax The Default Font command restores all font characteristics except orientation to those of the user default font Separate commands exist for the primary and secondary font Hex 1B 28 33 40 Dec 274051 64 The Default Font command for the secondary font is as follows E 3 Hex 1B 29 33 40 Dec 274151 64 Note If the user default font is proportionally spaced its pitch is not affected by the Default Font command 3 44 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Transparent D ata Purpose Syntax Example U nderline The Transparent Data command allows the 42
116. erface voltage 1 7 t Reset 2 2 2 17 to 2 18 resident fonts 3 6 LJIl 3 7 tto 3 8 t resolution and magnification 2 85 to 2 86 restrictions on 4213 printer text placement 2 40 return to printer operation 1 13 print mode 1 2 reversed printing and normal printing 2 87 f reversing images 2 87 revision integer 4 5 Right M argin 3 22 rotating images 2 87 to 2 88 rotation graphic window 2 88 f RS232 C serial connector 1 13 f rules and regulations FCC iii to v run length packing C 9 to C 11 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE BETA VERSION INDEX 7 INDEX f FIGU RE t TABLE S safety approval iv to v operational iv precautions iii radio frequency energy iii to iv sample programme in C for sixel encoding C 4 to C 7 in BASIC for run length packing C 9 to C 11 sample translation table job 2 115 to 2 120 scan direction for raster graphics 2 81 to 2 84 schemes supported coding 7 bit 2 108 secondary fonts 3 1 3 46 select Centronics parallel interface 1 2 to 1 3 DataProducts parallel interface 1 7 to 1 8 metered data 1 2 serial interface 1 11 selecting UDK tips 2 8 serial interface 1 11 to 1 15 features supported 1 14 select 1 11 serial signals and pin assignments 1 15 t serverdict begin 4 3 to 4 4 set baud rate 1 12 setdojamrecovery boolean 4 5 set flow control 1 13 set parity 1 12 setpassword 4 3 setprintername string 4 4 setting independent margins 2 42 job
117. es effect on the next page The default condition for offsetting is set through the printer control panel Pages can be offset Atjob boundaries with E P Upon explicit command Eo Refer to the Xerox 4213 Laser Printer User Guide for information on setting the default The printer s offset feature works like a toggle that is each time either a job control command or an Offset command is entered the condition of offsetting is toggled to its opposite state which is either enabled or disabled Thus it is possible to change the state of offsetting within a job as many times as desired If you were printing a 2 sided job and included an Offset command at the top of pages 2 3 4 5 6 and 7 2 3 4 5 and 6 7 no offsetting would appear because of the toggling of the command If an Offset command were at the top of pages 3 5 and 7 then pages 3 4 and 7 8 would offset and all subsequent pages in other jobs would also offset 2 24 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE To offset a mixed orientation job use an amp P followed by an E Q at the beginning of the job Note This command is ignored if the Output Offset feature is disabled at the printer control panel 2 sided book Purpose Enables 2 sided printing head to head see 2 sided Inverted for head to toe It also includes the option of shifting the margin of the second page Head to h
118. ex 1B 26 61 2B 32 35 43 Dec 27 3897 43 50 53 67 Horizontal Cursor Position D ecipoints Purpose The Horizontal Cursor Position Decipoints defines the absolute or relative position of the horizontal cursor in units of decipoints 1 720th of an inch Position O is flush with the left boundary of the printable area XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 27 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Example Horizontal Cursor Position Spots where is the number of decipoints to move or the absolute position to move to The is valid to two decimal places to the right of the decimal point Absolute move If the value has no sign the cursor is moved decipoints to the right of the left edge of the printable area Relative move positive If the value is preceded by a plus sign the cursor is moved decipoints to the right of the current cursor position Relative move negative If the value is preceded by a minus sign the cursor is moved decipoints to the left of the current cursor position If the value specifies a position beyond the left or right edges of the printable area the cursor is moved to the appropriate edge of the printable area To move the current cursor position from 720 decipoints 1 inch from position 0 to 2160 decipoints 3 inches from position 0 enter E amp a2160H Hex 1B 26 61 32 31 36 30 48 Dec 27389750 49 54 48 72 or aS a relative move E amp a 1440H Hex 1
119. executive size paper If such a tray is found the page type is set to executivepage and papertray is set to that tray If a tray with executive size paper is not found a rangecheck error occurs and the page type and papertray values are not changed A4tray This causes the 4213 to look for a tray with A4 tray size paper If such a tray is found the page type is set to A4 and papertray is set to that tray If a tray with A4 size paper is not found a rangecheck error occurs and the page type and papertray values are not changed com10envelopetray This causes the 4213 to look for an envelope tray If such a tray is found and com10 was selected from the User Interface the page type is set to coml0envelope and papertray is set to that tray If a proper tray is not found a rangecheck error occurs and page type and papertray values are not changed cbenvelopetray This causes the 4213 to look for an envelope tray If such a tray is found and c5 was selected from the User Interface the page type is set to cSenvelope and papertray is set to that tray If a proper tray is not found a rangecheck error occurs and page type and papertray values are not changed 4 10 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE POSTSCRIPT EMULATION dlenvelopetray dlenvelopetray This causes the 4213 to look for an envelope tray If such a tray is found and dl was selected from the User Interface the page type is set
120. expanded to the resolution specified by the Graphics Resolution command Raster data ignores the boundaries of the text area and is unaffected by perforation skip mode Syntax E b W bytes of raster data XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 53 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION End Graphics Hex 1B 2A 62 57 Dec 27 42 98 87 where is the number of bytes in this row The brackets are not to be entered Purpose Syntax The End Graphics command tells the printer that the transfer of raster graphics is complete E rB Hex 1B 2A 72 42 Dec 27 42 114 66 Horizontal Rectangle Size D ecipoints Purpose Syntax Horizontal Rectangle Size Spots The Horizontal Rectangle Size Decipoints command defines the width in decipoints 720ths of an inch of the next rectangle to be drawn E c H Hex 1B 2A 63 48 Dec 274299 72 where is a number up to four decimal places representing the width of the rectangle in decipoints Purpose Syntax The Horizontal Rectangle Size Spots command defines in spots 300ths of an inch the width of the next rectangle to be drawn E c A Hex 1B 2A 63 41 Dec 274299 65 where is an integer representing the width of the rectangle in spots 3 54 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Vertical Rectangle Size D ecipoints Purpose Syntax Vertical Rectangle Size Spots The Vertical Re
121. g printer drivers in application software packages Once the software package has been configured for a specific printer it is then necessary to select a printer emulation for the 4213 printer For directions on installing enabling and configuring a printer emulation refer to the Xerox 4213 Laser Printer U ser Guide Chapter 1 Interfaces Chapter 2 XES Command Language M ode Chapter 3 HP LaserJet Mode Chapter 4 PostScript Language Mode Appendix A Reassigning character tables covers how to download character assignments from the host to the printer and how to change from one character set to another Appendix B Conversion tables for units of measure shows how units of measure for margins and tabs translate into character pitch and lines per inch Appendix C Sixel encoding shows how to format bitmap graphics so that the printer can process them XX XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE INTRODUCTION Variances Appendix D Reference tables includes listings of control codes character code assignments Appendix E XES compatibility lists which commands on the Xerox 4235 printer are not supported on the 4213 printer Appendix F Default format parameters contains margin and tab default values in the XES emulation Appendix G XES summary sheet Also included is an Index Conventions used in this manual The following differences exist between the 4213 and 4046 laser printers Pages ma
122. gonal opposite coordinates set at 525 675 within the graphic window Enter Egb7 75 225 525 625L Figure 2 30 A graphic box within a window Graphic Fill Purpose Fills a closed graphic figure with a pattern The pattern can be one of the predefined patterns in figure 2 31 or can be created by the user of The instruction for a fill pattern P Indicates the pattern selection 0 User defined pattern 2 17 One of the predefined patterns in figure 2 31 i The semicolon is required before the next set of variables If the semicolon is missing the command is ignored Commas separate the other variables XEROX 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 99 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE X Y Indicates the starting point or seed point of the fill patterns X is the horizontal distance in pixels from the window s origin to the seed point Y is the vertical distance in pixels from the window origin to the seed point Xn Yn Indicates the next seed point for this fill pattern If you are using a predefined pattern you may specify as many seed points in one command as desired With a user defined pattern only one seed point can be specified per command Line end Figure 2 31 Predefined fill patterns Example Figure 2 32 is created in the following manner A graphic window is defined with the Graphic Window command It is 300 by 300 pixels A rectangle with Graphic Box At 297 pixels square it nearly fills th
123. han its actual size and if so by how much You can select magnification for a window when you want a graphic to cover a larger area on the page but do not want to use the memory required for a large window Magnifying a window however reduces its resolution e What type of graphics data raster vector or macro the window will contain e Whether the graphics will be reversed When graphic images are reversed a black image on a white background becomes a white image on a black background and vice versa e The location and size of the window given in two pairs of x and y coordinates as shown in figure 2 19 The first coordinates X and Y set the location of the window s origin on the page The second coordinates S and Sy set the size of the window The unit of measure is the pixel Graphic Window The x axis and y axis of a graphic window are not related to those of the physical page The scan direction for a graphic window always runs along its x axis from X to Sy Raster data fills the window in this direction This differs from the scan direction of the page which runs along the page s y axis Figures 2 19 and 2 20 show how the scan direction of the page differs from that of the graphic window In a job using raster data the Graphic Window command is followed immediately by the sixel encoded bitmap which is sent to the printer from the host When defining a window for raster graphics ensure that the number of
124. hart in figure 2 34 Drawn with a line five pixels thick At coordinates 450 450 in the graphic window With a radius of 285 pixels Consisting of five slices Slice 1 is 2096 and is filled with pattern 10 it is offset by 10 pixels Slice 2 is 3096 and is filled with pattern 13 it is offset by 10 pixels Slice 3 is 1096 and is filled with pattern 2 it is offset by 50 pixels 2 104 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE More about Graphic Pie Chart Slice 4 is 15 and is filled with pattern 12 it is offset by 10 pixels Slice 5 is 25 and is filled with pattern 17 it is offset by 10 pixels Enter F gp5 450 450 285 20 10 30 13 10 10 2 50 15 12 10 25 17 10L Figure 2 34 Creating a pie chart When creating a pie slice the printer subtracts the line thickness of the figure from its radius then uses the remainder as the location of the seed point For example in Figure 2 34 the line thickness of the figure is five pixels Five pixels is subtracted from the radius This is the seed point for the fill pattern XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 105 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE The purpose of the data monitor Data Monitor The data monitor is a data analysing tool used by the system manager or Xerox representative It prints the hexadecimal values of incoming character codes and is invoked either by the Data Monitor com
125. he font is a digitised bit map Figure 2 4 shows a font character in bit map form In electronic form the printed pixels of the bitmap are represented by ones the unprinted pixels by zeros Figure 2 4 A font character as a digitised bitmap XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 29 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE H ow fonts are stored Besides letters numbers and special characters fonts can also include logos signatures or other images that are scanned then digitised into font characters These font characters are then assembled on a page to make a graphic image Unlike other types of graphics they do not require a graphic window Graphic windows are discussed later in this manual Fonts for the 4213 are available in three forms 1 Resident 2 On cartridge 3 On disk or tape to download The XES emulation has a set of four resident fonts 1 TitanlOiso P U S portrait default 2 Titan12iso P International portrait default 3 XCP14iso L International landscape default 4 XCP12 5iso L U S landscape default In XES mode the 4213 is preset to print in XCP14iso L The other fonts can be selected through the Emulation Menu on the printer control panel or with application software refer to the Xerox 4213 Laser Printer User Guide Cartridge fonts are indexed and used the same as downloaded fonts The fonts in the font assignment must be spelled exactly as listed on the font status sheet incl
126. he physical size of paper required The top left and right margins are set to the defaults for the size of paper required Automatic macro overlays are turned off and any unprinted data is printed If paper in the size requested is not available in the paper tray s a message requesting the correct paper tray is displayed on the printer control panel If paper requested is available in one of the paper trays on a two tray machine and the paper source is set to automatic the correct tray is used automatically 2e where is the number of lines on the page based on the current line spacing See tables 3 5 and 3 6 for the page length values applying to some standard paper sizes at six and eight lines per inch XEROX 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 19 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Example Note The physical size of paper required to accommodate a given number of lines on a page will vary depending on the line spacing Table 3 5 Portrait paper length values At 6 lines At 8 lines Page size per inch per inch Letter Legal A4 Executive Table 3 6 At 6 lines At 8 lines Page size per inch per inch Letter Legal A4 Executive First use 84 as in the example then change orientations with the command E amp I10 To setthe page length for legal paper at six lines per inch enter E amp I84P Hex 1B 26 6C 383450 Dec 2738108 56 52 80 3 20 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER RE
127. ich indicates whether setoutputposition would take effect if attempted boolean setoutputpositioning This operator accepts a boolean value and sets the state returned by outputpositioning defaultoutputposition This operator returns the default state that outputpositioning will return atthe start of a new job setdefaultoutputpositioning This operator sets the default state of defaultoutputpositioning as chosen from the U ser Interface 4 6 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE POSTSCRIPT EMULATION 2 sided operators setdefault2 sidedmode boolean setdefault2 sidedmode Sets the value of default2 sidedmode When true the default printing mode is 2 sided When false itis 1 sided default2 sidedmode default2 sidedmode boolean This operator returns a boolean indicating the current default mode True indicates 2 sided mode false 1 sided mode set2 sidedmode boolean set2 sidedmode Turns 2 sided printing on or off for the current job True turns 2 sided on and false turns it off 2 sidedmode 2 sidedmode boolean This operator returns a boolean indicating the current printer mode True is 2 sided mode and false is 1 sided setdefaulttumble boolean setdefaulttumble Sets the default value for tumble If this operator is true the second side of a 2 sided page is upside down compared to the first side If false the first and second sides have the same orient
128. icolon is required If it is missing the command is ignored Commas separate the other variables The origin of the duplicate window X is the distance along the x axis of the page to the duplicate window origin Y is the distance along the y axis of the page to the duplicate window origin 2 90 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Where to place it Example Xn Yn Origins of other duplicate windows if more than one is to be made on the page Xn is the distance along the x axis of the page to the duplicate window origin Yn is the distance along the y axis of the page to the duplicate window origin L Line end Wherever you want a duplicate of a window In figure 2 26 the window that was defined in the example for the Graphic Window command refer to figure 2 20 is copied to another location on the same page This is the command that defined the original window Egw1 2 900 3000 600 4501 To copy this window with the following changes e Change the vector data to reversed vector data e Duplicate it on the same page at the coordinates 900 1500 Enter Egr0 3 900 1500L Note The Graphic Window Repeat command is not supported within a Merge Page Load E M job XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 91 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Figure 2 26 A graphic window copied at another location on the page Creating graphic images The comman
129. is trays 1 and 2 Bypass Slot Paper Size Purpose Indicates the paper size being fed through the bypass slot Syntax W here to place it Example Notes zyb Instruction for paper size being manually fed n Indicates paper size selection At the start of the page before any text prints and after the Paper Tray selection command Eco If this command is entered after any printable data it takes effect on the next page To print from the bypass tray on letter size paper enter Pc9EzybO This command accommodates paper sizes that will not print on the 4213 The user may get incorrect printed output that is formatted for the page size but is not printed on that page size The maximum paper width and length that can be used on the 4213 are 257 mm x 364 mm The minimum length is 190 mm Specifying an n value smaller than the minimum length such as n 6 A6 105 x 148 mm or n C Postcard 89 mm x 140 mm 3 5 x 5 5 will cause the printer to jam 2 22 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE The 4213 printer defaults only to letter size and A4 margins with this command Undesirable results may occur when the default margins do not match the actual paper size Use margin commands to ensure correct formatting Adjustable sizes set for the bypass at the printer control panel are overriden by this command Table 2 3 shows the paper size and default margins of the
130. it to an at sign before sending it to the printer To change UDK at the beginning of the document enter UDK Converting the U ser D efined Key to a printable character While a character is serving as the User Defined Key it cannot be printed If you want to use the User Defined Key as a printable character at some point in a document you can do so by selecting a new User Defined Key As far as the printer is concerned any time it receives the sequence UDK the character immediately following the second equal sign is the new User Defined Key 2 6 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Example Printing the sequence U D K as text The percent symbol is your current User Defined Key and you want to print the sentence The test is 85 accurate Enter UDK The test is 85 accurate UDK At the end of the sentence the User Defined Key is changed back to the percent symbol 96 Example Cancelling a U ser D efined Key To print UDK within the text of your document enter the characters in such a way that the printer does not perceive them as a command The simplest way is as follows Whenever you reach the point at which UDK is to be printed interrupt the character sequence with a Font ID Assignment command that reselects whatever font you are now using You are using the font which in your Font ID Assignment has the ID number 1 and your
131. justification About centreing To justify text between margins use the Justification command This command is cleared with the Justification Stop Command To centre text betw een margins use the Centre command A Centre command overrides a Justification Start command Once you insert a Centre command a line will not justify even with a Justification Start command Any spaces or tabs placed on a line that has a Centre command will be included in the text to be centred Do not try to centre a line by moving it to the centre of the host screen then following with the Centre command The spaces from the left margin will be included as if they were characters and your text will not be centred 2 52 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Justification Start Stop Purpose Justifies text between right and left margins j Instruction to start justification k Instruction to stop justification Where to place it Anywhere justification is desired with the start command placed immediately before the first character in the line to be affected the stop command placed immediately after the last character in the line to be affected Example To produce The printer justifies text by varying space between all the words on the line However the printer does not make line ending or hyphenation decisions You must enter the appropriate line ends for each line Enter Ej
132. larger font from crowding the smaller characters on the next line The underline character prints under the character descender XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 69 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE O verstrike Start O verstrike Stop Purpose Syntax Syntax W here to place it Example Subscript Start Subscript Stop O verstrikes text with any selected printable character Ezp zo Instruction to start overstriking x Whatever character you choose to act as the overstrike character zp Instruction to stop overstriking Anywhere in the text where overstriking is desired with the Overstrike Start command immediately before the first character to be overstruck and the Overstrike Stop command immediately after the last character to be overstruck To produce The hyphen is used as the overstrike character You can use the overstrike commands to strike out certain pertiens ef text with any character you choose Enter You can use the overstrike commands to strike out Ezo certain portions ofEzp text with any character you choose Note Spaces are not overstruck in justified text Purpose Syntax Subscripts characters 2 70 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE I Instruction to start subscripting s Instruction to stop subscripting W here to place it Anywhere subscripting is desired with the start command immediately befo
133. lls your printer to begin printing in the HP PCL emulation mode MCK EMULATE XDCS END 1 This information tells your printer to begin printing in the XES emulation mode You can replace XDCS with either XES or 2700 in the mode change command to enter the XES emulation mode Note A space is required immediately after the MCK sequence A line ending following the END keyword completes the command The reset command The reset command resets the 4213 laser printer restoring it to the default settings that were in effect at the last power off cycle Send the following command to your printer preferably in the form of a text file MCK RESET END L 2 2 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Definition of a printer command The commands covered in this chapter are classified as escape sequences The escape sequence is a type of printer command that gets its name from its initial character the escape character This is not the same as the escape key on your keyboard Escape is a non printable control code with the hexadecimal ASCII value 1B In XES mode the 4213 recognises the escape character as a signal to indicate that the letters and numbers making up the rest of the sequence are not text to be printed but instructions to be executed Command syntax as expressed in this chapter Three types of escape sequences The parts of the printer commands
134. lock The stunt box is not provided by Xerox Table 1 2 Centronics signals and pin assignments Pin Direction Signal Description 1 STROBE pulse low to read data A strobe low signal raises BUSY line to high 7 3 3 5 7 10 From printer ACKNLG L ACKNLG pulse low indicates data was received and printer is ready to receive more data 11 From printer BU SY high indicates the printer cannot PEH o a 16 0 volts Logic ground 1 4 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE INTERFACES Table 1 2 Centronics signals and pin assignments continued Pin Direction Signal Description 18 From printer i 5V standard Centronics 19 ee e TWP returns All at Logic ground 29 30 0 volts INIT ground 31 To printer INIT L The 4213 ignores this signal 32 From printer ERRORL This signal is low when the printer is in an error state 33 IEEE MEE O pen standard Centronics M wu 35 Ground standard Centronics 36 Not used 1 These signals are the 1st and 8th bits of parallel data and are active high for a logical 1 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 1 5 INTERFACES Centronics interface timing Figure 1 2 diagrams signal timing for the Centronics interface Figure 1 2 Centronics interface timing 1 6 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE INTERFACES Table 1 3 describes Centronics interface voltage and current requirements T
135. lowing figure shows a vertical line drawn on the y axis of a short edge feed portrait page the starting point of which begins at three inches across the page and 6 inches up It is four inches long and 20 pixels thick It is printed in black no shade of grey is selected XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 65 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Figure 2 15 Line Draw Y command To produce Enter Ey900 1800 1200 20L 2 66 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Figure 2 16 Fifteen degrees of shading for the Line Draw commands XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE About character formatting Italics The character formatting commands provide some character control without a change of fonts You can do the following Bold although a bold font may be preferable e Underline e Overstrike with any printable character e Create subscripts or superscripts Note These commands increase page complexity and can slow the performance of the printer Bold Start Bold Stop There is no command for italicising characters You must select an italic font with the Font ID Assignment and Font Change commands see Fonts on the 4213 printer Purpose Syntax Syntax Creates boldface text without the use of a bold font b p Instruction to start bold c p Instruction to stop bold 2 68
136. mand or through the Diagnostics menu The data monitor may be used to e Check for correct printer command syntax e Check the integrity of the data files e Check the integrity of font and graphics data Note A data monitor will not print on size A5 paper Purpose Syntax Where to place it More Prints the hexadecimal codes representing all characters received by the printer Allows the user to analyse data being sent from the host E D D Instruction to print job contents in hexadecimal values Immediately before the document data that is to be printed in hexadecimal Once the Data Monitor command is entered it continues to print in hexadecimal code until a Reset command is entered Figure 2 35 Data monitor printout 2 106 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Figure 2 36 Close up of data monitor printout Note the following about the data monitor printout The characters printed on the right half of the printout are either ISO or EBCDIC characters The data monitor always uses the translation table for EBCDIC data regardless of the language selected If ASCII encoding is selected ISO characters are printed e The Page number refers to the pages of the printout not of the transmitted job Those in figures 2 35 and 2 36 are ISO See the Xerox 4213 User Guide Diagnostics chapter for more information on using the data monitor Character codes on
137. mple To select italics for the primary font and upright for the secondary enter E s1S Hex 1B 28 73 31 53 Dec 27 40 115 49 83 and E s0S Hex 1B 29 73 3053 Dec 2741115 48 83 3 40 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Stroke W eight Purpose The Stroke Weight command selects the degree of bolding There is a separate command for the primary and secondary fonts Medium weight fonts have a stroke weight of zero light weight fonts have a negative stroke weight and heavy weight fonts have a positive stroke weight If the requested stroke weight is zero or greater and the weight is not available the printer accesses the next heavier font If the requested weight has a negative value and is not available the next lighter font is used The Stroke W eight command for the secondary font is E JssB where is one of the values in table 3 9 Example To request a medium primary font and a bold secondary font enter E s0B Hex 1B28 733042 Dec 2740115 48 66 and E sr3B Hex 1B29732B 3342 Dec 2741115 4351 66 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 41 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Typeface Table 3 9 Gradations of Stroke weight a Stroke Weight Medium Purpose Syntax Example The Typeface command selects the typeface used by the primary and secondary fonts The Typeface command for the secondary font is E s 1 where is a code numb
138. n parameter Table 2 3 Bypass tray paper size selections Physical paper size n Margin default Letter 216 x 279 mm n 0 Letter Legal 216 x 279 mm n 1 Letter Ledger 279 x 432 mm n Letter A3 297 x 420 mm n A4 A4 210 x 297 mm n 4 A4 A5 148 x 210 mm n 5 A4 A6 105 x 148 mm n A4 C5 envelope 162 x 229 mm n A4 DL envelope 110 x 220 mm n A4 ISO B5 176 X 250 mm n A4 Executive M onarch n A Letter 184 x 267 mm Statement 140 x 216 mm n Letter Postcard 88 9 x 142 mm n C Letter Eurolegal 8 5 x 13 n Letter Monarch envelope n Letter 98 x 191 mm 10 envelope 4 125 x 9 5 n F Letter XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 23 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE O ffset More This command takes effect whenever the bypass slot is chosen either through the Emulation Menu or the paper source selection command Ec9 The command remains in effect until either a Reset command or another paper tray or bypass slot paper size command is received The default value is restored after a reset If more than one bypass slot paper size command is entered on a page the printer recognises only the last one Note 2 sided printing is not possible with this command Purpose Syntax Where to place it More Offsets sheets in the stacker at specified places in the job Before any printable data on the page If Offset is entered within the printable contents of the page it tak
139. n 3 32 End of Line W rap 3 33 Push Pop Cursor Position 3 34 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE xiii TABLE OF CONTENTS Control codes for cursor positioning 3 34 Carriage Return CR 3 34 Space SP 3 34 Backspace BS 3 35 Horizontal Tab HT 3 35 Line Feed LF 3 35 Form Feed FF 3 35 Font commands 3 35 Symbol Set 3 36 Spacing 3 38 Pitch 3 38 Height 3 39 Style 3 40 Stroke W eight 3 41 Typeface 3 42 Default Font 3 44 Transparent D ata 3 45 Underline 3 45 Fixed underlining 3 45 Floating underlining 3 45 Disable Underline 3 46 Primary and secondary fonts 3 46 Font ID 3 46 Font Control 3 47 Font Selection by ID 3 48 Font D escriptor 3 48 Character Code 3 49 Character D escriptor and Data 3 50 xiv XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE TABLE OF CONTENTS Graphics commands 3 51 Raster Graphics Resolution 3 51 Raster Graphics Presentation Mode 3 52 Start Graphics 3 52 Transfer Raster D ata 3 53 End Graphics 3 54 Horizontal Rectangle Size Decipoints 3 54 Horizontal Rectangle Size Spots 3 54 Vertical Rectangle Size Decipoints 3 55 Vertical Rectangle Size Spots 3 55 Area Fill ID 3 55 Fill Rectangular Area 3 58 Examples of filled rectangles 3 58 Macro commands 3 60 Macro ID 3 60 Mac
140. n place of CR and LF or line end EBCDIC 6AH yields ASCII 1BH ESC EBCDIC 79H yields ASCII 20H space Translation table structure A user defined code assignment table can be created and downloaded to the printer where it remains available as an alternate language selection language H in the Language command A downloaded translation table which is created with the Character Reassignment command has three parts e The table load initiator which is the E T L part of the command It signals to the printer that the data following it is a character table data e The table data record or records This part of the command contains the actual code assignment data The data may be sent as one long record or as a series of records XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 109 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE More about the table data record e The table load terminator which is the XL part of the command It signals to the printer that all data records have been sent The data record tells the printer how a new table is to translate incoming data The format of the table data is very specific and must be followed carefully The data may be grouped either in one long record or in a Series of records Each record consists of six elements The start of record indicator The record type indicator Byte count Load address Table entries Record terminator OS a a a Note In the descriptions
141. n the following manner Ex553 2350 594 3L Ey553 2350 597 3L Ey1147 2350 597 3L Egl5 350 3 350 2501 Ex553 2947 594 31 A graphic window is defined with the Graphic Window command Line Draw X and Line Draw Y commands create the inner rectangle This is a nongraphic image A circle is drawn with the Graphic Arc command A line is drawn through the circle with Graphic Line command Note that it is defined so that it breaks as it passes through the circle The outside rectangle is drawn with Graphic Box The Graphic Fill command selects pattern 17 and defines one seed point between the inside of the graphic box and the outside of the graphic circle Egw 2 500 3000 700 700L Fga5 350 350 100 0 360L Egl15 350 450 350 6971 Egb5 3 3 697 6971 Egf17 150 150L 2 102 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Figure 2 33 Graphic Pie Chart A fill pattern between the boundaries of two graphic images a circle and a rectangle Purpose Creates a complete pie chart including fill patterns You can also offset single slices from the rest of the pie chart Syntax EgpT X Y r 961 F1 O 1 n Fn O nL gp X Y The instruction for a pie chart Line thickness of the figure Line thickness should not be greater than 1 2 the radius otherwise unexpected results may occur The semicolon is required If it is omitted the command is ignored Commas separate the other
142. ndow moves down automatically The current text position is not affected by the creation of a graphic window If you start entering text after creating a graphic window the characters will begin printing after the last position in which text was entered on the page Figure 2 25 gives an example of the graphic window relative to the current text position 2 88 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Figure 2 25 Current text position Text before graphic window Text after Note You may want to use the Text Placement Absolute and Text Placement Relative commands see About page formatting features for placing text on a page with a large number of graphics Graphic commands and the current graphic position Copying graphic windows The current graphic position may be defined as the set of x and y coordinates for the last graphic image created on the page These coordinates in either the Graphic Line or the Graphic Box command will update the current graphic position Once you have defined a graphic window it can be copied elsewhere on the page Graphic windows are copied with the Graphic Window Repeat command A copied graphic window has exactly the same characteristics as the original If it is a stored window its contents may be magnified reversed or added to but cannot be rotated After a graphic window has been defined and copied on the same page before being printe
143. next page If the current side is the back side no blank page is entered Entering Ezyi2 within the current side of a page causes printing to continue on the next back side of a page Therefore if the current side is the back side a form feed blank page is entered for the front side printing continues on the back side of the next page If the current side is the front side no blank page is inserted More In 1 sided mode this command is ignored Comment Purpose Enables comments to be inserted into a coded document They do not appear in the printed output or on the Summary Sheet Syntax Ezyacomment textL zya Instruction to enter comments comment text The comment itself Use any alphanumeric or special characters as desired L Line end 2 28 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Where to place it Example Fonts on the 4213 Any place in the job The following shows part of a coded document as it appears on screen with comments inserted into the coding E XL Ezya Clear settings with the Reset command E Q L Ezya Start a new documentr E 1H elvetica8Bi2 PL E 2H elvetical4Bi2 P1L ElEzya Select fonts before setting marginsr A font is a collection of letters numbers and special characters all having the same typeface weight size and posture Fonts utilised on the 4213 in XES mode are digital fonts that is each character or symbol in t
144. ng commands specify exactly where the next character or graphic is to be placed on the page These commands define print position in 300ths of an inch spots 720ths of an inch decipoints and columns or rows 3 26 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Horizontal Cursor Position Columns Purpose The Horizontal Cursor Position Columns defines the absolute or relative position of the horizontal cursor in units of columns on the current line The width of a column is defined by the current Horizontal Motion Index HMI setting Syntax E amp asC where is the number of columns to move or the column to move to The is valid up to four places to the right of the decimal point Absolute move If the value has no sign the cursor is moved to column Relative move positive If the value is preceded by a plus sign the cursor is moved columns to the right of the current cursor position Relative move negative If the value is preceded by a minus sign the cursor is moved columns to the left of the current cursor position If the value specifies a column beyond the left or right edges of the printable area the cursor is moved to the appropriate edge of the printable area Example To move the current print position to column 30 from column 5 enter E amp a30C Hex 1B 26 61 33 30 43 Dec 27389751 48 67 or aS a relative move E amp a 25C H
145. nter Egw1 2 900 3000 600 4501 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 83 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE More about graphic windows Figure 2 20 A graphic window on a page Note A 4046 laser printer requires an XGRAPH cartridge to match the rotated image on the 4213 laser printer Page capacity for graphic windows The size of a graphic window depends on the amount of memory installed in the printer The largest graphic window can be up to one half the available memory Only one window ata time can be stored Large amounts of graphics and fonts together on the same page can slow the printer s performance For information on total page capacity see How the printer defines a page You can use memory more effectively by creating smaller windows then magnifying them to appear larger on the page with lower resolution 2 84 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE More about magnification Graphic images can be magnified in two ways e Proportionally e Anamorphically An image magnified proportionally looks the same as its original except that it is larger and has lower resolution The image has been magnified by the same amount in both the x and y directions An image magnified anamorphically is larger in one direction either x or y Magnification and resolution Magnifying an image decreases its resolution by an equal amoun
146. nter that any data following it is part of a new job For documents created with the printer commands you need the Print Job and Reset commands in order to e Separate print jobs Print Job commands tell the printer that a new job has begun If no Reset command E XL is used the printer processes your document as part of the job that preceded it with the same parameters throughout e Request an XES Summary sheet by having a comma follow the Print Job command e Notify the printer that a new job is being sent that has new parameters such as fonts and margins that are different from the defaults e Indicate whether or not changing to a different font orientation ends the page If you are processing more than one document and want to keep the same parameters for each use Print Job at the beginning of each document but do not use Reset at the end This keeps all the parameters set with the other commands To start a new document with new parameters enter Reset to clear all settings then start over with Print Job or Print Job Mixed Orientation as the following table illustrates XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 13 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Command E P L E Q L E P L E X L Where to place it W hat it does At beginning of job Separates your job from last job printed At beginning of job Separates your job from last job printed Mixed orientation At end
147. o 2 97 Box 2 92 2 98 within a window 2 99 f Fill 2 92 2 99 to 2 103 Line 2 92 to 2 95 Pie Chart 2 92 2 103 to 2 105 Window 2 81 to 2 107 on a page 2 84 f Repeat 2 90 to 2 92 rotation 2 87 to 2 88 graphic commands and current text position 2 88 graphic position 2 89 graphic data incomplete 3 51 Graphic Line 2 93 to 2 95 graphics commands LJ2D 3 51 to 3 59 graphics margin settings 3 53 t Graphics End 3 54 graphics on the 4213 2 77 to 2 79 graphic window copied at another location on the page 2 92 graphic windows for portrait and landscape printing 2 80 f increasing capacity 2 84 group character 3 10 H Half line Feed 3 32 handling printer errors 4 11 syntax errors 4 11 Height 3 4 3 39 Hewlett Packard LJ2D commands 1 sided 2 sided 3 15 2 sided Page Side Selection 3 16 Area Fill ID 3 55 Character Code 3 49 to 3 50 Character Descriptor and Data 3 50 Clear Horizontal Margins 3 23 Default Font 3 44 Disable Underline 3 46 End Graphics 3 54 End of Line Wrap 3 33 to 3 34 Fill Rectangular Area 3 58 Font Control 3 47 to 3 48 Font Descriptor 3 48 to 3 49 Font ID 3 46 Font Selection by ID 3 48 IN DEX 4 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE f FIGU RE t TABLE INDEX Hewlett Packard LJ2D commands continued Half line Feed 3 32 Height 3 39 Horizontal Cursor Position Columns 3 27 Horizontal Cursor Position Decipoints 3 27 to 3 28 Horizontal Cursor
148. ob control command sometimes includes e An optional comma inserted when you want a Summary Sheet e An optional comment that is printed on the Summary Sheet Occasionally it also includes a user entered variable The command for starting a document E P commentL P The plus symbol followed by the instruction for starting a print job uppercase P Optional request for a Summary Sheet to report errors upon execution of the next job command comment An optional text message of up to 130 alphanumeric characters that will appear on the Summary Sheet L The line end required to complete the command 2 4 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Simple commands Simple commands are made up of the escape character and one or two other lower case characters They do not require any line end command for completion Example The command for centreing a line of text Eq q The instruction for centreing lowercase q Commands with user entered variables Commands with user entered variables set parameters such as the line spacing or margin width They may include punctuation marks that serve as delimiters and alphanumeric characters such as comments or file names Some require a line end Example The command for setting margins EmH T B L RL m The instruction for margins H T B L R Variables In this case the values of the margin settings Height Top Bottom L
149. of job Separates your job from next job printed without resetting job parameters At end of job Separates your job from next job printed and resets job parameters to the printer default settings Examples e Fora typical document you might enter E4QL Fonts assigned M argin settings All other job contents E XL Then send itto the printer 2 14 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE e For a series of three documents all of which are to have the same settings you might enter E PL Fonts assigned M argin settings All other contents of job 1 E4PL All other contents of job 2 E4PL All other contents of job 3 E4XL Then send them to the printer Print Job Purpose Sets the starting boundary of a document that will have either a portrait or a landscape orientation Syntax E P commentL P Instruction to start a document with one orientation per page Optional request for a Summary Sheet to report errors upon execution of the next job command comment Optional comment on a Summary Sheet L Line end W here to place it Atthe start of the document data Example To start a document having a single font orientation with a Summary Sheet having the comment This page is of single font orientation enter E P This page is of single font orientationr XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 15 XES COM
150. ommand before any printable data of the page for which it is to take effect If the command is placed within printable data it takes effect on the next page Example To set margins for an 216 by 279 mm portrait page page height 279 mm top margin 1 inch bottom margin 1 inch left margin 1 5 inches right margin 7 5 inches from the left edge With units of measure in five pixels 1 60 inches enter Em660 60 60 90 4501L With units of measure in 1 300 inch or pixels enter E m3300 300 300 450 2250 L Refer to figures 2 5 and 2 6 Figure 2 5 Measuring a portrait page XEROX 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 41 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Figure 2 6 Measuring a landscape page Setting independent margins The Margin Top Margin Bottom Margin Left and Margin Right commands allow you to set or change one or more margins on a page without affecting other margins selected using the default margins or the regular margin commands If margins have been defined with the Margins command and then an independent Margins command is entered the printer continues to use the measurements in the Margins command for all other settings If no other margins have been set the printer uses the defaults for the other settings The same rules that apply to the Margins command also apply to the commands for independent margins 2 42 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE
151. op bit mark Data bits represent a character Least significant data bit leads Number of bits and polarity of parity are selectable via the U ser Interface Parity error is enabled only when even or odd parity is selected Table 1 6 describes the signals and pin assignments used with the asynchronous serial interface 1 14 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE INTERFACES Protective Ground 101 Transmitted Data 103 Received Data 104 Request to Send 105 Table 1 6 Asynchronous serial signals and pin assignments Telephone Co CCITT designation designation Clear to Send 106 Data Set Ready 107 S return Carrier D etect 109 P Null modem ignal Ground common 102 rinter Ready None 108 A null modem is a device which eliminates both a modem and a telephone line Figure 1 6 illustrates typical null modem wiring When the 4213 is used with an asynchronous serial interface connected to a DTE host such as a PC compatible a modem modem eliminator or a null modem is required Figure 1 6 shows null modem wiring XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 1 15 INTERFACES Figure 1 6 Null modem wiring 1 16 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 XES command language mode This chapter is for anyone using the Xerox Escape Sequence XES emulation on the Xerox 4213 laser printer Configuring the 4213 for the XES command language mode
152. or relative position of the vertical cursor in units of rows The height of a row is defined by the current Vertical Motion Index VMI setting where represents the number of rows to move or the row to move to The is valid up to four places to the right of the decimal point XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 29 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Vertical Cursor Position D ecipoints Example Absolute move If the value has no sign the cursor is moved down rows from the top margin Relative move positive If the value is preceded by a plus sign the cursor is moved rows down from the current cursor position Relative move negative If the value is preceded by a minus sign the cursor is moved rows up from the current cursor position If an absolute value i e with no sign or negative value exceeds the top or bottom edges of the printable area the cursor is moved to the appropriate edge of the printable area If a positive value specifies a position beyond the bottom of the printable area the cursor is moved off the page The Vertical Cursor Position commands ignore the perforation region To move the cursor from line 25 to line 2 enter E amp a2R Hex 1B26613252 Dec 2738975082 or as a relative move E amp a 23R Hex 1B 26 61 2D 323352 Dec 273897 45 50 51 82 Purpose Syntax The Vertical Cursor Position Decipoints defines the absolute or relative position
153. ore efficient to send a blank page for the second side of the 1 sided page The printer commands override defaults set through the printer control panel Thus a 2 sided Stop command can be used to override a default set for 2 sided printing 2 sided Side Select Purpose On a 2 sided page selects the side of the page on which the next image will be placed In effect it causes a form feed thus enabling you to skip a page at any given point within a 2 sided document zyi Instruction to insert a form feed for a blank page n Indicates on which side of the page the printer is to continue printing 0 Select next side Printing continues on the next side of the page front or back 1 Select next front side Printing continues on the next front side of the page 2 Select next back side Printing continues on the next back side of the page XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 21 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Where to place it Any place within the contents of the preceding page Example Entering Ezyi0 within the current side of a page causes printing to continue on the next page or next side of the page No blank page is inserted Entering Ezyil within the current side of a page causes printing to continue on the next front side of a page Therefore if the current side is the front side a form feed blank page is entered for the back side and printing continues on the front side of the
154. p to 32 characters long and should consist of printable characters Avoid using the characters or channel baud options setsccinteractive channel baud options sccinteractive Because communications options can be selected through the User Interface the operator setsccinteractive is ignored by the PDL interpreter in the printer The operator sccinteractive reports the current communications options to the host channel baud options setsccbatch channel sccbatch baud options The printer ignores the setsccbatch operator because the user can select the communications options through the User Interface The sccbatch operator always returns the active communications options on the printer 4 4 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE POSTSCRIPT EMULATION setdojamrecovery boolean setdojamrecovery Sets the state of jam recovery on true or off false dojamrecovery dojamrecovery boolean Tells if jam recovery is on true or off false product product string This operator returns the string Xerox 4213 revision revision integer Returns the revision number of the device specific portion of the PostScript interpreter Timeout operators setdefaulttimeout job manualfeed wait setdefaulttimeouts defaulttimeout setjobtimeout jobtimeout manualfeedtimeout This operator sets the default values in seconds used at the start of each job to initialise the job manual f
155. pe Corporation ITC Avant Garde Gothic ITC Zapf Chancery ITC Zapf Dingbats and ITC Bookman are registered trademarks of International Typeface Corporation WordPerfect is a _ registered trademark of WordPerfect Corporation Changes are periodically made to this document Changes technical inaccuracies and typographic errors will be corrected in subsequent editions European EME regulations Laser safety The Xerox 4213 laser printer meets the requirements of EN55022 Class B WARNING Use of controls adjustments or performance of procedures other than those specified herein may result in a hazardous radiation exposure This product will produce ozone during normal operation The ozone produced is dependent on copy volume and is heavier than air Providing the proper environmental parameters as specified in Xerox installation procedures will ensure that concentration levels meet safe limits The 4213 has an ozone filter built into the print cartridge The following note is to meet the local requirements of Finland and Sweden LUOKAN 1 LASERLAITE KLASS 1 LASER APPARAT VAROITUS NEL LAITTEEN KAYTTAMINEN MUULLA KUIN TASSA KYTTO O HJEESSA MAINITULLA TAVALLA SAATTAA ALTISTAA KAYTTAJAN TURVALLISU USLUOKAN 1 YLITTAVALLE LASERSATEILYLLE VARNING HEN OM APPARATEN ANVANDS PA ANNAT SATT AN DENNA BRUKSANSVISNING SPECFICERADE KAN ANV NDAREN UTSATTAS FOR O SYNLIG LASERSTRALNING SOM OVERSKRIDER G
156. peface 3 5 Font selection 3 5 Font selection by characteristics 3 5 Font selection by ID 3 6 Resident fonts 3 6 Cartridge fonts 3 9 PCL4 command structure 3 9 Control codes 3 9 Escape sequences 3 10 Escape sequences with parameters 3 10 Escape sequences without parameters 3 10 Variable sequence character 3 10 Group character 3 10 Numeric variable 3 11 Parameter character 3 11 Final parameter character 3 11 Binary data 3 12 Combining escape sequences 3 12 PCL4 command reference 3 13 Job control commands 3 14 Printer reset 3 14 Number of copies 3 14 1 sided 2 sided 3 15 Left O ffset Registration 3 15 Top Offset Registration 3 16 2 sided Page Selection 3 16 xii XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE TABLE OF CONTENTS Page control commands 3 17 Paper Source 3 17 Page Size 3 18 Page Length 3 19 Orientation 3 21 Left Margin 3 21 Right Margin 3 22 Clear Horizontal Margins 3 23 Top Margin 3 23 Text Length 3 23 Perforation Region 3 24 Horizontal Motion Index 3 25 Vertical Motion Index 3 25 Line Spacing 3 26 Cursor positioning commands 3 26 Horizontal Cursor Position Columns 3 27 Horizontal Cursor Position D ecipoints 3 27 Horizontal Cursor Position Spots 3 28 Vertical Cursor Position Rows 3 29 Vertical Cursor Position Decipoints 3 30 Vertical Cursor Position Spots 3 31 Half line Feed 3 32 Line Terminatio
157. pose Syntax The Perforation Region command determines the action of the printer when text is positioned below the bottom line of text defined by the Text Length command When the Perforation Region is enabled text which would fall below the bottom line specified by the Text Length command is moved automatically to the top of the text area on the next page When Perforation Region is not enabled text may extend beyond the bottom of the text area and may not be printed if it continues out of the printable area The default setting is Perforation Region enabled The size of the perforation region depends on the dimensions specified by the Page Size and Page Length commands E amp l L where 0 disables Perforation Region 1 enables Perforation Region 3 24 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Example To enable Perforation Region enter E amp llL Hex 1B 26 6C 314C Dec 2738108 49 76 Horizontal Motion Index Purpose The Horizontal Motion Index HMI command determines the distance between columns When proportional spaced fonts are selected the HMI command affects only the space character When fixed space fonts are selected the HMI command affects all the printable characters Syntax E amp k H where is a number between 0 and 840 representing the width of a column in units of 1 120th of an inch The is valid up to four places to the right of the decimal point The
158. pports two parallel interfaces Centronics and Dataproducts Each is described on the following pages The parallel interface cable You must supply the interface cable to connect the 4213 to your host The cable must meet the following specification in order to comply with FCC and VDE regulations Table 1 1 interface cable specifications Type Twisted pairs overall foil or braid shield No of conductors 15 pairs Wire size 22 AWG stranded Cable length Maximum length Centronics or D ataproducts 10 feet 3 05metres Shield connection To the connector conductive case at the 4213 to the frame ground at the data source Note When connecting or disconnecting the parallel interface cable make sure the printer is off line XEROX 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 1 1 INTERFACES Centronics interface Select the Centronics parallel interface Centronics parallel interface is selected through the User Interface Press the Online button Press the Menu A button Press the Last Page c button until HOST INTERFACE appears Press theTest B button Press the Last Page c button until PARALLEL CENT appears Press the Select D button to select Centronics parallel QY Ah cine Select metered data With PARALLEL CEN TR appearing on the User Interface 1 Press the Test B button METERED DATA appears on the User Interface 2 Pressthe Test B button 3 Press the Last Page c button to
159. printer has the ability to operate in three different emulation modes XES Mode HP LaserJet Mode PostScript Language M ode optional Once this is done all commands sent to the printer are for that specific type of printer It is important to know how your software application package is configured so that you know what control language you should use to programme It is recommended that you contact your software vendor before attempting to to use any of the control languages They will usually be glad to assist you and can save you a great deal of time and frustration In some cases they will modify the printer driver for you or provide you with a new printer driver that already contains the modifications you desire If they are unable to assist you then you should be able to use this Manual to control the printer However to perform most of the tasks covered here some knowledge of programming is desirable XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE xix USING THISMANUAL Purpose of this manual W hat this manual contains This reference manual provides information on such tasks for which you might use these printer commands including e Changing default settings Loading or changing character tables e Accessing a feature on the printer that is not supported by an application software package e Loading new fonts or accessing fonts not supported by an application software package e Writing or modifyin
160. put 4 12 t letter paper throughput 4 12 t Line Draw commands fifteen degrees of shading 2 67 f Line Draw X 2 62 to 2 64 command 2 64 f Line Draw Y 2 64 to 2 66 command 2 66 f line end 2 8 line ending options 3 33 t Line Feed LF 3 35 D 1 Line Graphic 2 93 to 2 95 Line Spacing 2 55 to 2 56 3 26 Line Spacing Absolute 2 56 to 2 57 Line Termination 3 32 to 3 33 LJ2D symbol sets with ID numbers 3 37 t commands see H ewlett Packard LJ2D commands load address 2 111 Load Merge Page 2 74 Load Translation Table 2 113 logic levels 1 7 t 1 11t M macro commands 3 60 to 3 62 control functions 3 61 t example 3 61 to 3 62 graphics 2 79 Macro ID 3 60 Macro Control 3 60 magnification and resolution 2 85 f and window placement 2 86 Margin Bottom 2 43 margin default 2 23 t Margin Left 2 44 3 21 Margin Right 2 44 3 22 Margin Top 2 43 3 23 margins 2 40 to 2 42 F 1tto F 4t Margins Double E 2 t maximum values for vertical tabs 2 49 t MCK see Mode Change Command measuring landscape and portrait pages 2 41 to 2 42 f Merge Page Load 2 74 Merge Page Unload 2 75 to 2 76 Merge Start 2 76 to 2 77 Merge Stop 2 77 merging constant pages 2 76 metered data select 1 2 millimetres conversion table B 5 tto B 8t mode change command 2 2 switching automatic 2 1 Multiple Copies 2 19 to 2 20 N new character assignments over original table normal printing and reversed prin
161. quence when sequences are combined 3 12 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION PCL4 command reference All alphabetic characters in the combined sequence must be lowercase except for the last final parameter character which is uppercase The characters which would be final parameter characters in uncombined escape characters are converted to lowercase and referred to as parameter characters The commands are interpreted from left to right so the leftmost command starting with escape is executed first and the rightmost command ending with the final parameter character and optionally binary data is executed last Figure 3 4 Combined Escape Sequence E slp12 5V Escape Final Parameter Variable Sequence Numeric Variable Group Character Parameter Char Numeric Variable This section describes the commands escape sequences that control the 4213 Laser Printer when it emulates the Hewlett Packard Laserjet IID printers The commands which make up the Printer Control Language 4 PCL4 are divided into the following categories Job control commands Page control commands Cursor positioning commands Font control commands Graphics commands Macros XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 13 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Job control commands Printer Reset The job control commands affect an entire print job Purpose Syntax
162. r graphics e Vector graphics e Macro graphics XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 77 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Raster graphics These three types of graphics must be created within the boundaries of a graphic window Graphic images that have been digitised into font characters such as logos or signatures do not require a graphic window Note There may be a minor difference in appearance of complex graphics on the 4045 laser printer and the 4213 laser printer Raster graphics are images made up of binary bit maps 0s and 1s loaded from the host into the graphic window When the printer receives the bitmap into the window it prints a pixel on the page for each binary 1 and leaves the pixel blank for each binary 0 see figure 2 18 For the printer to receive the bitmap data and interpret it correctly the data must be sixel encoded Refer to the procedure for sixel encoding in appendix C Raster graphic data is the default Unless you select vector or macro graphics with the graphics commands the printer automatically initialises the window for raster data If you create a graphics file for raster data you can add commands for vector graphics at the end of the file Figure 2 18 Raster data 2 78 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Complex raster graphic Vector graphics Setting the page buffer to FULL full page imaging in the XES
163. racter specified by the first two bytes Only the value from column C should be included The printer automatically selects an accent from column 8 or C depending on the height of the character with which it is associated If no floating accent is needed two Os should be included here For another example suppose there is no math font in the printer and the symbol is to be printed A table could be created that prints the less than sign lt 3CH along with the floating underscore character _ CCH Suppose you are willing to sacrifice the ampersand amp 26H The four byte entry for location 26 would be 3CCCH Now if you invoke the downloaded table and send 26H the printer will print lt 6 Record terminator The last two characters of every record are the characters FF These two bytes must be included in the byte count at the beginning of the record Purpose Syntax Transmits new character assignments from the host to storage on the printer This table can then be accessed with the Language command E T commentudata record L T Instruction to start loading character table data O ptional request for a job Summary Sheet comment O ptional comment on a job Summary Sheet L Line end data record A sample record is provided in the example below The data record is discussed in detail in the preceding section More about the table data record Ti Line end 2 112 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTE
164. re the first character to be subscripted the stop command immediately after the last character to be subscripted Example To produce C2H50H Enter CEI2EsH EI5EsOH More The subscript commands cannot be used to Subscript a subscript e Index down a page e End a superscript The distance of a subscript character from a regular character depends on the current font size Thus if you want to use a smaller or larger font for the subscript give the Font Change command immediately after Subscript Start and return to the original font before Subscript Stop In the example below the regular letters are entered using font number 5 and the subscripts are entered using the smaller font number 6 To produce C H OH Enter E5CEIE62E5EsH EIE65E5 ESO H To underline a subscript at its own level give the Underline Start command after the Subscript Start command XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 71 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Superscript Start Superscript Stop Purpose Syntax Syntax Where to place it Example More Superscripts characters 5 S h Instruction to start superscripting s Instruction to stop superscripting Anywhere superscripting is desired with the Superscript Start command immediately before the first character to be affected and the Stop command immediately after the last character to be affected To produce
165. responds to each type of paper with the width referring to the imageable area extending in the direction of the x coordinate and the height referring to the y coordinate papername Only the imageable area and not the paper type can be selected with papername Valid strings for papername are shown in table 4 1 on the next page XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE POSTSCRIPT EMULATION Table 4 1 Paper and envelope sizes Paper envelope Paper envelope name size Imageable area LETTER 216 x 279 mm 206 x 273 mm 8 5 x 11 8 1 x 10 75 A4 210 x 297 mm 199 x 290 5 mm 8 27 x 11 69 EXECUTIVE 184 x 267 mm 176 x 260 mm 7 25 x 10 5 6 93 x 10 25 B5 182 x 257 mm 171x251 mm 7 15 x 10 1 6 75 x 9 9 COM 10EN VELO PE 105 x 241 mm 95 x 235 mm 4 125 x 9 5 3 73 x 9 25 DLEN VELO PE 110 x 220 mm 101 5 x 213 2 mm 4 33 x 8 66 MONARCENVELOPE 98x 191 mm 88 x 184 mm 3 875 x 7 5 3 45 x 7 25 7x9 178 x 229 mm 168 x 222mm 7 x 9 6 61 x 8 73 HALFLETTER 140 x 216 mm 130 x 208 mm 5 5 x 8 5 5 1 x 8 2 TW OTHIRD SA4 198 x 210 mm 187 5 x 203 2 mm 7 8 x 8 27 C5ENVELO PE 162 x 229 mm 152x222mm 6 38 x 9 01 5 98 x 8 75 A5 148 5 x 210 mm 138 1 x 203 2 mm 5 85 x 8 27 LEGAL 216 x 356 mm 206 x 349 mm 8 5 x 14 8 1 x 13 75 EU ROLEGAL 210 x 330 mm 210 x 330 mm 8 28 x 13 257 x 363 mm 246 x 358 mm 10 1 x 14 3 9 7 x 14 1 10 x 14 254
166. rify Printer D ataproducts interface timing Figure 1 4 describes the Dataproducts interface timing when measured at the printer connector Figure 1 4 Dataproducts interface timing 1 10 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE INTERFACES Table 1 5 Voltage levels Logic levels Current requirements Data rates Serial interface Dataproducts voltage and current requirements 0 zero and 5 VDC nominal TTI SN 74LS00 series Positive logic is assumed A logic one or high signal is defined as a voltage in the range of 2 4V to 5V not to exceed a peak of 5 5V A logic zero or low signal is defined as a voltage in the range of 0 0V to 0 4V not to exceed a peak negative voltage of 0 5V However for received signals a voltage of up to 0 8V is recognised as a logic zero The printer interface sources up to 15 ma at 2 4V for a high output signal and sinks up to 14 ma for alow output 74LS374 ICs are used for data receivers with a 220 ohm pull up resistors and a 330 ohm pull down resistor 74LS244 ICs are used as drivers and for Ready O n line and Demand The 4213 supports burst data rates of up to 50 Kbytes per second for at least 560 bytes or until a line end or form feed is detected The serial interface as well as the serial interface features supported by the 4213 are selected through the User Interface The serial interface connector is compatible with
167. rinter to continue using all parameters entered during previous jobs The commands discussed in this section determine the formatting of the job s printed output how many copies will be printed which paper tray you will print from whether the document is 1 sided or 2 sided and so on These commands are Print Multiple Copies Print Multiple Copies Non Collated Paper Tray Bypass Slot Paper Size Offset 2 sided Start 2 sided Invert Start 2 sided Stop 2 sided Side Select You do not need the commands unless you want settings that are different from the defaults Also covered in this section is Comment which allows you to make notes in your job without their appearing in the printed output or otherwise affecting the job 2 18 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Multiple Copies Purpose Determines the number of uncollated copies when more than one copy is desired C Instruction to print multiple copies n Indicates the number of copies to be printed up to 999 copies O ptional request for a Summary Sheet comment O ptional comment on a Summary Sheet Line end W here to place it Anywhere on the first page of the document Example To print 50 copies of a document request a Summary Sheet and print the comment Distribute this to all committees enter E C50 Distribute this to all committeesL More
168. rizontal Rectangle Size Spots 3 54 Horizontal Tab HT 3 35 D 1 F 1tto F 4t l ID Assignment Font 2 35 to 2 36 imageable areas 4 2 t images 2 87 to 2 88 inches conversion table B 2 tto B 4 t independent margins setting 2 34 indicator 2 110 initial tab positions and intervals 2 49 t Ink Change E 2 t integer pagecount 4 4 integers 4 4 to 4 6 interface cable parallel 1 1 specifications 1 1 t Centronics 1 1 connector Centronics 1 2 parallel 1 1 select serial 1 11 to 1 13 introduction xix to xxii invoking the base table 2 118 to 2 120 ISO code assignments D 4 t ISO to EBCD IC translation for sixel encoded graphic data D 6 t Italian 3270 EBCDIC code mappings A 17 t ASCII code mappings A 6 t italics 2 68 J job boundaries setting 2 13 to 2 15 control commands 2 4 to 2 5 3 14 to 3 17 Job Prioritise E 1 t Justification Start Stop 2 53 justifying and centreing between margins 2 52 Justify U nlimited E 1 t XEROX 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE BETA VERSION IN D EX 5 INDEX f FIGU RE t TABLE L Margins Clear Horizontal 3 23 landscape justifying and centreing 2 52 font on short edge feed landscape page absolute placement 2 60 f default format parameters F 1 t orientation page layout 3 3 f paper length values 3 20t Language 2 114 language G special table code mappings A 21 t Left Margin 3 21 Left O ffset Registration 3 15 legal paper through
169. ro Control 3 60 Example of a macro 3 61 4 PostScript emulation 4 1 U serdict operators for page type 4 1 System parameters 4 3 Statusdict operators 4 3 System set up operators 4 4 Timeout operators 4 5 O utput positioning operators 4 6 2 sided operators 4 7 Tray selection operators 4 8 Handling syntax errors 4 11 Handling printer errors 4 11 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE XV TABLE OF CONTENTS Appendices A Character code tables A 1 Conversion tables for units of measure B 1 Sixel encoding C 1 The purpose of sixel encoding C 1 How sixel encoding works C 1 Sample programme in C for sixel encoding C 4 Run length packing C 7 Sample programme in BASIC for run length packing C 9 D Reference tables D 1 E XES compatibility E 1 F D efault format parameters F 1 G XES summary sheet G 1 Summary Sheet G 1 Error messages G 1 Index INDEX 1 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE Introduction This manual is for anyone who wants to access and control the printer with commands instead of or in conjunction with application software When you load and configure your software application package you are asked to identify the type of printer that you will be using This is generally known as selecting a printer driver A printer driver translates the programming language into the specific language that the printer understands The 4213
170. rs are slight but become more noticeable on a full page of text This issue of character spacing does not apply to HP Soft Fonts or to 4213 cartridge fonts For information on how to format a character descriptor and data block refer to the Hewlett Packard Laser Printer Technical Reference M anual 3 50 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Graphics commands Graphics commands are used to download raster data to form bit map images Expressed in dots corresponding to bits images can be created in rectangular shapes with a variety of fill and shading patterns When the printer receives graphic data that is incomplete e g the data has fewer bytes than the window size the next Form Feed commands may be ignored causing unpredictable results Raster Graphics Resolution Purpose The Graphics Resolution command controls the resolution number of spots per inch used when printing downloaded raster information as bitmap graphics This command must precede the Start Graphics command Note When the page buffer is set to FULL full page imaging in the LJ2D emulation submenu the memory the 4213 dedicates to this imaging is no longer available for user downloaded fonts or graphics or any other temporary use This means that a full page graphic that prints completely in PARTIAL imaging may not print if the page buffer is setto 1 FULL or 2FULL Example lt A 2 5 MB system with 2
171. ry it remains until you power off the printer switch emulations or perform a reset Note If the printer receives graphic data that is incomplete e g the data has fewer bytes than the window size the next Form Feed command may be ignored causing unpredictable results Placement on the page The graphic window s origin is always the corner of the window closest to the upper left hand corner of the page It is independent of page origin feed direction or paper size See figure 2 19 Since window boundaries cannot be seen on your host computer Screen you may want to sketch an outline of the window on paper then enter the commands based on the measurements in your sketch Figure 2 19 Graphic windows for portrait and landscape printing You can define a window so that part of it is located either above the top of the page or below the bottom of the page If you place an entire window off the page nothing is printed and an error message appears on the XES Summary Sheet You can place windows and copied windows on top of each other on the page However this type of page complexity may slow the processing speed of the printer 2 80 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Other characteristics Scan direction for raster graphics With the Graphic Window command you determine e Whether or not the window will be magnified to appear larger on the printed output t
172. s not advisable to change the password from the default value of zero Many application programmes look for the password set to zero and will not function if the password is changed An incorrect password returns the error message PasswordlIncorrect The correct password causes the server to respond with the following message 9696 exitserver permanent state may be changed 9696 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 4 3 POSTSCRIPT EMULATION System set up operators After the server has acknowledged the exit request you are permitted to run a programme using statusdict operators that change persistent parameters Operators that set persistent parameters are marked with an asterisk To change these parameters you must first exit the normal server mode You can inquire about the current state of persistent parameters without using the exitserver mode and accessing statusdict only Parameters that remain in effect for the current job only can also be changed via statusdict only pagecount setprintername printername setsccinteractive sccinteractive setsccbatch sccbatch pagecount integer This operator returns the number of pages the controller has generated It reflects the pages generated in all emulations not just the Postscript emulation string setprintername string printername substring Sting represents the printers name and is printed on the configuration sheet The name can be u
173. s true and off is false When the current job ends automatic tray selection is determined by the value of defaulttrayswitch trayswitch boolean This operator returns a boolean indicating whether automatic tray switching is on true or off false manualfeed boolean This variable determines whether paper will be fed from the manual feeder If set to true then the printer will request that the next sheet be loaded in the manual feed slot The image will be formatted to the last paper size selected either by default requesting a specific tray or using the papername operator to request specific imageable area lettertray This causes the 4213 to look for a tray with letter size paper If such a tray is found the page type is set to letter and papertray is set to that tray If a tray with letter size paper is not found a rangecheck error occurs and the page type and papertray values are not changed XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 4 9 POSTSCRIPT EMULATION legaltray executivetray Adtray com10envelopetray c5envelopetray legaltray This causes the 4213 to look for a tray with legal size paper If such a tray is found the page type is set to legal and papertray is set to that tray If a tray with legal size paper is not found a rangecheck error occurs and the page type and papertray values are not changed executivetray This causes the 4213 to look for a tray with
174. secondary font and switch between them XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 1 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Most font commands have two versions one for the primary font and another for the secondary font Once selected it is possible to switch between them using the single byte control codes Shift In SI hexadecimal OF decimal 15 and Shift Out SO hexadecimal OE decimal 14 The primary font is the default font Font characteristics A font is a set of printable characters that have common features Orientation Symbol set Font source Spacing Pitch Height Style Stroke weight Typeface Orientation The orientation of a font defines whether the font characters are printed parallel to the short edge of the paper portrait orientation or the long edge landscape orientation Note The Printer Status Sheet identifies the fonts by their orientation Choosing a portrait font automatically causes the printer to print in portrait orientation landscape fonts function likewise Text orientations cannot be mixed in the LJ series 2D emulation Therefore once the orientation is selected only fonts of that orientation may be printed on a single page The top left and right margins apply to different edges of the paper depending on whether portrait or landscape orientation is selected Selecting the orientation of a font also affects the coordinate system used to describe a particular point on the page as shown
175. sign the cursor is moved 3t spots down from the top margin Relative move positive If the value is preceded by a plus sign the cursor is moved spots down from the current cursor position Relative move negative If the value is preceded by a minus sign the cursor is moved spots above the current cursor position If the value specifies a position beyond the top or bottom edges of the printable area the cursor is moved to the appropriate edge of the printable area XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 3 31 LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Half line Feed Purpose The Half line Feed command moves the cursor half a row down the page without changing columns The distance moved is half the current Vertical Motion Index VMI setting which may have been defined by a VMI or Line Spacing command Syntax E Hex 1B3D Dec 2761 Line Termination Purpose The Line Termination command controls the way the printer responds to the conventional line ending characters carriage return CR line feed LF and form feed FF Syntax E amp k Gz Hex 1B26 6B 47 Dec 2738107 71 where selects one of the line ending options shown in table 3 7 3 32 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION End of Line Wrap Table 3 7 Line ending options Line endings Host Printer CR CR The default setting is zero no translation Purpose The
176. structure 3 9 to 3 13 Perforation Region 3 24 to 3 25 physical and logical paper tray selection 2 21 t physical paper size 2 23 t Pie Chart Graphic 2 103 to 2 105 pin assignments and signals 1 4 tto 1 5 t 1 9 t 1 15t Pitch 3 4 3 38 to 3 39 Plane Prioritise E 2 t portrait font placement 2 59 f orientation page layout 3 3 f paper length values 3 20 t PostScript emulation 2 2 4 1 to 4 13 predefined fill patterns 2 100 f Presentation M ode Raster Graphics 3 52 primary fonts 3 1 3 46 printable area 3 3 f printed output formatting 2 18 to 2 28 printer command definition 2 3 errors handling 4 11 to 4 13 operation return 1 13 Printer Reset 3 14 printing the sequence UDK as text 2 7 Print Job 2 15 to 2 17 print mode return 1 2 process sixel encoding C 4 to C 7 product string 4 5 publications related vi purpose of this manual xx Push Pop Cursor Position 3 34 R radio frequency emissions iii to iv rasterisation C 3 f raster graphics 2 78 to 2 79 Raster Graphics Presentation M ode 3 52 Raster Graphics Resolution 3 51 values for graphics resolution 3 52 t Ready and O n line and Demand 1 11 Reassignment Character 2 112 to 2 113 record terminator 2 112 record type indicator 2 110 reference tables D 1tto D 17t regulations Canadian EME iii European EME iv related publications vi relative placement 2 60 to 2 62 Relative Text Placement 2 60 to 2 62 requirements Centronics int
177. supported 2 108 combining escape sequences 3 12 to 3 13 f command job control 2 4 mode change 2 2 simple 2 5 printed output 2 6 structure PCL4 3 9 to 3 13 syntax 2 3 user entered variables 2 5 commands in printed output 2 6 Comment 2 28 to 2 29 compatibility font 3 1 completed table download record 2 118 f Complex Print E 1t conductors number of 1 1 t configuring 4213 for XES commands 2 1 to 2 5 connector Amphenol 36 pin 1 3 Cannon 1 13 Centronics interface 1 3 f Cinch DB 25P 1 13 DataProducts 1 8 RS232C serial 1 13 f constant page creating 2 74 merging 2 76 control codes 2 108 3 9 for cursor positioning 3 34 to 3 35 serial interfaces D 1 tto D 2t conventions used in this manual xxi to xxii conversion tables character pitch B 9 tto B 12t inches B 2tto B 4t millimetres B 5 tto B 8t units of measure B 1 to B 12t converting User D efined Key to printable character 2 6 to 2 7 INDEX 2 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE f FIGU RE t TABLE IN D EX coordinates 2 10 copying graphic windows 2 89 to 2 90 creating constant pages 2 74 graphic images 2 92 pie chart 2 105 f tables 2 121 current requirements 1 7 t 1 11t text position 2 88 to 2 89 cursor positioning commands 3 26 to 3 35 customised mapping table U S English code 2 116t Cycle forms E 1 t D Danish N orwegian 3270 EBCDIC code mappings A 18 t ASCII code mappings A 7t DATA BIT 1 4t
178. t the 4213 automatically uses the default portrait tabs If no tabs have been set for a job using a landscape font the 4213 automatically uses the default landscape tabs Tabs Horizontal You may set a line of tabs in any numerical order on the page the printer sorts them in ascending order Ensure that your tab settings do not exceed the page boundaries A tab setting beyond page boundaries may cause a page feed If you set a horizontal tab beyond the right margin the printer will process it as a space no text will print beyond the margin If you set a vertical tab beyond a bottom margin the printer will process it as a page feed no text will print beyond the margin Purpose Defines tabs across the page measuring from the left edge of the page Whenever you press the tab key on the host computer once the tabs are set the printer skips from the current text position to the next horizontal tab position XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 45 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Syntax Where to place it Example More Etn1 n2 n1601T t Instruction to set horizontal tabs n1 n2 n160 Tab settings across the page starting from the left edge Up to 160 tabs can be set in one command Commas separate values See table 2 4 for default horizontal tab values for portrait and landscape pages L Line end Atthe start of the job or anywhere a horizontal tab is desired Figures 2 7 and 2 8 show
179. t In other words an image that has been doubled will have half the normal resolution Images in an unmagnified window contain 300 pixels per inch When the window contents are doubled the images have 150 pixels per inch and the dots are doubled in size Figure 2 21 illustrates the difference in resolution Figure 2 21 Magnification and resolution XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 85 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Magnification and window placement When a graphic window is magnified it is expanded downward and to the right from the graphic window origin To keep the magnified window from expanding off the page place the window origin so that it is near the upper left hand corner of the page You can also determine placement of the magnified window by multiplying the magnification number 2 or 4 by the window s size in the x and y directions then measuring from the origin downward for the y dimension and to the left for the x dimension For example in the landscape page in figure 2 22 your origin is 1300 1200 for a window that is 450 pixels in the x direction and 1100 pixels in the y direction If this window is magnified by 2 the final size of the printed graphic is 900 pixels by 2200 pixels At its current position the graphic will print off the bottom edge of the page The solution is to move the window origin up Moving the window 950 pixels up places the bottom edge of the window along th
180. t Graphics command the printer sets the graphics resolution and left graphics margin until it receives an End Graphics command XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Hex 1B 2A 72 41 Dec 2742114 65 where one of the two values in table 3 13 Table 3 13 Graphics margin settings Left graphics margin o Left edge of printable area Current cursor position Transfer Raster D ata Purpose The Transfer Raster Data command precedes a single row of raster graphics data The resolution of the data has been selected through the Graphics Resolution command and the left graphics margin defined by the Start Graphics command The raster data is printed at the current Y position Raster data is always printed parallel to the feed edge of the paper regardless of the paper or page orientation Because the coordinate system is different for portrait and landscape pages the positional change required to establish the start point of the next row of data is different for each orientation On a portrait page the Y position is automatically incremented after each row of raster data On a landscape page the X position is automatically decremented after each row Each byte of raster data received comprises eight bits corresponding to eight individual dots The most significant bit is the leftmost dot If a bit is set high a dot is printed if a bit is set low no dot is printed Each dot is
181. text position in which the text is to be placed u Up d Down Left r Right n The distance in pixels or 1 300th inch from the current text position to the new text position C Any non numeric character can be used to complete this command Note This is one of a few commands using a printable character rather than a line end for completion Do not use a line end Immediately after the current text that is the text being used as a point of reference and immediately before the text to be affected For both landscape and portrait pages it is possible to print text off the left edge of the page For example entering Erl3000b will not cause an error However any text after the command and before a line end will print off the page To place text 75 pixels to the left of the current position enter Current text Erl75e N ew text As shown in figure 2 13 the final word of a sentence is placed 1500 pixels down from the current text position XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 61 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Figure 2 13 Relative placement 1500 pixels down To produce Enter He who laughsErd1500elast Line Draw X Purpose Drawsa line along the x axis of the page On short edge feed paper this line runs horizontally across a portrait page vertically down a landscape page Syntax x Y LT SL x The instruction for a line to be drawn along the x axis X The x coordinate of
182. the Xerox 4213 For the printer to print the characters in a font each character is assigned a hexadecimal code The code assigned to a character may vary according to the data encoding system ASCII EBCDIC or ISO the language selection and the characters available in the font selected When the host sends the printer a hexadecimal code for a character the printer knows which character to print because of the assigned table linking the code to each character XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 107 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Supported coding schemes This section discusses the data encoding systems or coding schemes supported on the 4213 printer how to load a table of characters using the Character Reassignment command and how to switch from one table to another using the Language command The actual language code mappings are found in Appendix A Other tables needed for character assignments are in appendix D Reference tables Control codes Tables D 2 D 3 and D 4 in appendix D list the coding schemes supported by the 4213 printer ASCII ISO and EBCDIC The ISO coding scheme has been derived by the International Organisation for Standardisation and is intended for use in international markets Note that the ASCII code set is essentially a subset of the ISO set 7 bit coding schemes Table D 1 lists control codes with hex value less than 20 in ASCII or ISO less than 40 in
183. the actual number of characters in the record and must be expressed as a hexadecimal value 26 2 13 Table D 7 provides a decimal to hex equivalence table that shows that decimal 13 equals decimal OD Now the record contains the following characters 0D 00B8A3005D 00A5005F00A800FF XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 117 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Invoking the base table The last determination to be made is the record type Since ISO characters are to be used in this table either 3 or 4 is appropriate The entire file then becomes E TL S40D 00B8A3005D 00A5005F00A 800F FL The components of this table record are shown in figure 2 37 Figure 2 37 Completed table download record Before sending the table data file to the printer ensure to invoke the mapping table that is to serve as the base table When the printer receives the Character Reassignment command it creates a new table by laying the new data over the mapping table that is currently in effect Locations not specified in the table data remain the same in the new table as in the original table over which it was laid See figure 2 38 In this example the new data in the example discussed above is laid over the U S English table The new table is illustrated in table 2 8 2 118 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Figure 2 38 New character assignments over original tabl
184. the starting point of the line the distance in pixels from the page origin along the x axis to the starting point 2 62 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Where to place it Example More Y The y coordinate of the starting point of the line the distance in pixels from the page origin along the y axis to the starting point L The length of the line the distance in pixels from the starting point to the end point T The thickness of the line in pixels S The degree of ink shading on a scale of 0 to 15 If no shading is desired the s value can be omitted See figure 2 16 for the 15 degrees of shading Commas separate the variables L Line end At any pointin the job where the line is desired See the sample that follows The Line Draw commands create nongraphic lines that is lines that do not need graphic windows Nongraphic lines can only be drawn on either the x or y axis horizontally or vertically they cannot be drawn diagonally Refer to What is a graphic window for information on graphics windows The following figure shows a horizontal line drawn on the x axis of a short edge feed portrait page the starting point of which begins at four inches across the page and 6 inches up It is two inches long and 80 pixels thick It is printed in black no shade of grey is selected XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 63 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE
185. ting 2 87 f Norwegian 3270 EBCDIC code mappings A 18 t ASCII code mappings A 7 t notice v Null D 1 null modem 1 15 wiring 1 16 f number of conductors 1 1 t Number of Copies 3 14 numeric variable 3 11 0 Offset 2 24 Online and Ready and Demand 1 11t O perator M essage E 1t operators 2 sided 4 7 to 4 8 output positioning 4 6 statusdict 4 3 to 4 4 system set up 4 4 to 4 5 timeout 4 5 to 4 6 tray selection 4 8 to 4 10 orientation font 2 9 to 2 10 3 2 to 3 3 origin 2 80 page 2 9 2 80 page layout landscape 3 3f portrait 3 3 f IN DEX 6 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE f FIGU RE t TABLE INDEX Orientation command 3 21 origin and page orientation 2 80 output positioning 4 6 Output Tray E 1 t O verstrike Start O verstrike Stop 2 70 P packing run length C 9 to C 11 page capacity 2 12 control commands 3 17 to 3 26 definition 2 9 to 2 10 formatting features 2 55 to 2 56 graphic windows 2 81 to 2 84 orientation 2 9 type userdict operators 4 1 pagecount integer 4 4 Page Length 3 19 to 3 20 Page Size 3 18 values 3 19 t paper feed 2 10 to 2 11 sizes and imageable areas 4 2 t throughput 4 12t papername 4 1 Paper Source values 3 17t Paper Tray 2 21 to 2 22 Parallel interface 1 1 cable 1 1 parameter character 3 11 parameters system 4 3 parity set 1 12 PasswordIncorrect error message 4 3 PCL4 command reference 3 13 to 3 62
186. to dlenvelope and papertray is set to that tray If a proper tray is not found a rangecheck error occurs and page type and papertray values are not changed Handling syntax errors Errors detected by the 4213 interpreter are reported to the host only when the serial interface is used The message is sent to the host in the following form 9696 error type and cause 9696 Syntax errors are caused usually by poorly written PostScript masters or insufficient memory space in the printer You can define what action the printer should take when an error occurs The action taken by the printer is a default error message reported in the following form 9696 Error error O ffendingCommand command 9696 If the error occurred in the batch mode the error message is followed by the line 9696 Flushing rest of job to end of file will be ignored 9696 After receiving an error message you should send an EOT code 4H to the printer to reset the PDL interpreter or all further data sent to the printer will be ignored In the DOS environment you can reset the printer by typing the following at the C gt prompt C echo D gt LPT1 or CO M1 etc D signifies Control D and is obtained by holding down the control key and pressing the letter D Handling printer errors Printer errors are returned to the host computer in interactive mode only when the serial interface is used Errors appear in the following form 9696 PrinterError
187. types for rectangular areas 3 58 t final parameter character 3 11 Finnish Swedish 3270 EBCDIC code mappings A 19 t ASCII code mappings A 8 t fixed underlining 3 45 floating underlining 3 45 flow control set 1 13 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE BETA VERSIO N INDEX 3 INDEX f FIGU RE t TABLE Font Add 2 33 font and page orientation 2 9 assignment numbers 3 6 cache allocation 4 13 t cartridges 3 9 character as a digitised bitmap 2 29 f characteristics 3 1 to 3 5 commands 3 35 to 3 50 compatibility 3 1 orientation 2 9 selection by characteristics 3 5 to 3 6 by ID 3 6 3 48 source 3 4 storage 2 30 symbol sets with ID LJ2D 3 37 t Font Control functions 3 47 t Font Delete 2 33 to 2 34 Font Descriptor 3 48 to 3 49 Font ID 3 46 to 3 47 Font ID Assignment 2 35 to 2 36 Font Load 2 32 fonts resident 3 6 to 3 8 Font Select 2 37 fonts in a document using 2 34 to 2 35 on the 4213 2 29 primary and secondary 3 1 3 46 Font Unload 2 34 Form Load E 1t Form Start E 1 t Format Select E 1 t formatting printed output 2 18 Form Delete E 2 t Form Feed FF 3 27 D 1 Form ID Assign E 2 t Form Stop E 2 t French 3270 EBCDIC code mappings A 14 t ASCII code mappings A 3 t French Canadian 3270 EBCDIC code mappings A 11t G German 3270 EBCDIC code mappings A 20 t ASCII code mappings A 9 t Gradations of Stroke Weight 3 42 t Graphics XES Arc 2 92 2 95 t
188. uding lower case letters Fonts on diskette or tape can be downloaded to the printer with the Font Load and Font Add commands Fonts can be deleted selectively with the Font Delete command You can also delete all fonts from the memory except for the system fonts with the Font Unload command Note Font assignment numbers on downloaded fonts may or may not be consecutive The numbers are only meant to be identifiers and a gap does not imply anything is missing 2 30 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE H ow to download fonts from the host computer The example below demonstrates how to download fonts from a host computer running on MS DOS in parallel You create and transmit three files File 1 defines the UDK if the escape character cannot be used and initiates the command Font Load or Font Add to the printer File 2 copies the UDK and Font Load or Font Add command to the printer and copies the fonts to the printer File 3 defines the UDK again and resets the printer with the Reset command l Assume that you are running MS DOS and have loaded the font diskette into drive A of your host computer You are now ready to create File 1 You are using the Commercial At symbol 8 as a UDK At the C gt prompt on your computer screen enter copy con start doc Press Return U DK F Font Load Press Return lt CTRL gt z Press Return The file h
189. x 356 mm 244 x 349 mm 10 x 14 9 6 x 13 75 4 2 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE POSTSCRIPT EMULATION System parameters The PDL in the 4213 uses a variety of programming parameters which fall into two categories Non volatile or persistent parameters stored in Non Volatile memory N VRAM e Volatile parameters which remain in memory only until the end of the current job or the printer is powered off These parameters are stored in a special dictionary called statusdict These parameters can be changed through a PostScript programme using operators that access statusdict Most persistent parameters can also be changed from the User Interface Statusdict operators Following is a list of operators found in statusdict These operators can be invoked once statusdict has been pushed onto the dictionary stack You can gain access to statusdict by issuing statusdict begin at the start of a programme and use the operators by calling them by name In order to change persistent parameters however you must first exit from the normal save and restore context used by the server to prevent changes in the virtual memory from extending pastthe job boundaries Use the following statement serverdict begin password exitserver password is the system administrator password with a default value of zero It can be changed to any other integer with the operator setpassword In general it i
190. xed Font O rientation Note If mixed font orientations are used on the same printed page the first font used determines the page orientation for the entire page XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 9 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Figure 2 1 Font and page orientation Coordinates units of measure and paper feed direction The page on the 4213 is like a grid with an origin an x axis and a y axis Data can be placed virtually anywhere on the grid of the page The basic unit of printable data is the pixel or dot which is also the basic unit of measure used in all commands that set measurements The 4213 has a resolution of 300 dot per inch Refer to appendix B Conversion tables for units of measure for conversions to inches and millimetres Figure 2 2 shows the origins x axis y axis and dimensions for pages created on shortedge feed letter legal A4 paper 2 10 XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE Figure 2 2 Specifications for short edge feed paper Determining the paper feed edge The paper feed edge is the edge that is fed first into the printer The paper trailing edge is the edge fed last into the printer Figure 2 3 shows the trailing edge and the feed edge Figure 2 3 Paper feed edge and trailing edge Feed edge Trailing edge XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE 2 11 XES COMMAND LANGUAGE MODE
191. xed pitch characters on the other hand occupy all the same amount of space Height Pitch specifies the number of characters per inch cpi printed by a fixed pitch font The pitch characteristic has no bearing on proportionally spaced fonts Style The height of a font is measured in points 1 72nd of an inch from the lowest descender to the top of the highest character excluding accents Style refers to whether characters are upright or italic 3 4 XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PROGRAM MER REFEREN CE LJ SERIES 2D EMULATION Stroke weight Typeface The stroke weight determines the degree of darkness of the font This can vary from ultra thin to ultra black with seven grades of shading medium being the normal stroke weight Most applications use two stroke weights medium and bold Font selection A typeface can be defined as the specific design of a set of font characters Characters of a given typeface share a similar style Font selection by characteristics You may select fonts either by their characteristics or by using a font ID number All font selection commands have two forms one for the primary font and one for the secondary font Font select commands are listed later under PCLA command reference The user selects fonts according to their characteristics The printer follows a best fit system to search for the font which most closely matches the one requested The chara
192. y break differently on the two printers To match rotation on the 4213 the 4045 must have an XGRAPH cartridge installed Set the page buffer to FULL to correctly print complex pages In XES mode the underline character prints at the baseline on the 4045 on the 4213 this prints under the character descender The following conventions are observed in this manual E The escape character ASCII 27 1BH is represented with this symbol L The line end carriage return and line feed is represented with this symbol XERO X 4213 LASER PRINTER PRO GRAM MER REFEREN CE USING THISMANUAL Warning Caution Note MB KB K Warnings are associated with the safety of people Cautions are associated with equipment safety A comment or explanation set off from from the text as a separate paragraph This is the representation for megabyte This is the representation for kilobyte The character K in conjunction with a numerical value such as 256K always represents a thousand In the index the use of the lowercase i denotes an illustration the lowercase f means a figure and the lowercase t refers to a table xxii XERO X 4213 LASER PRIN TER PRO GRAM M ER REFEREN CE l Interfaces This chapter describes the interfaces supported by the 4213 Laser Printer the Centronics and Dataproducts parallel and the serial asynchronous Parallel interface The 4213 Laser Printer su

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