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Automatic Interface Selection
This printer can automatically select the bi-directional parallel, USB or Ethernet 10/100BASE-TX
interface, depending on the interface port through which it receives data. With this feature, you can
connect the printer to more than one computer. See Automatic Interface Selection on page 2-20.
Five emulation modes
This printer can emulate PCL 5C and PCL 6 language printers, Brother BR-Script3 printers, HP-GL
plotter as well as EPSON FX-850 and IBM Proprinter XL printers (for monochrome printing only). You
can print with all application programs that support one of these printers. See About emulation modes
on page 3-21.
Automatic Emulation Selection
This printer can automatically select the printer emulation mode, depending on the print commands it
receives from the computer software. With this feature, many users can share the printer on a network.
See Automatic Emulation Selection on page 2-19.
Data compression technology
This printer can internally compress the received graphics and font data in its memory so it can print
larger graphics and more fonts without the need for additional memory.
Fonts
This printer has 66 scalable and 12 bitmapped fonts. The fonts that can be used vary according to the
selected emulation mode.
In PCL mode, you can also print the 13 kinds of bar codes listed below. In BR-Script mode, the printer
has 35 scalable fonts.
Bar code printing
This printer can print the following 13 types of bar codes:
■ Code 39
■ Interleaved 2 of 5
■ EAN-8
■ EAN-13
■ EAN- 128
■ Code 128
■ UPC-A
■ UPC-E
■ Codabar
■ FIM (US-PostNet)
■ Post Net (US-PostNet)
■ ISBN (EAN)
■ ISBN (UPC-E)