HP (Hewlett-Packard) PCL 5 Printer User Manual


 
existing pen values. For example, if the palette size is
initially 8 and is decreased to 4, pen colors and widths for
the new palette are retained from the colors and widths of
the first 4 pens of the old palette. If the palette size is
increased from 8 to 16, the colors and widths for the first 8
pens remain the same, and the colors and widths of the
remaining pens are defaulted. The pens are defaulted in
accordance to how the palette was created (either CID or
Simple Color palettes).
If the currently selected pen is outside the range of the new
palette size, the SP command modulo function is applied to
obtain a pen number which will index into the new palette;
this clears the current residue (the unused portion of a
pattern) and terminates any sequence of continuous
vectors. For more information, see the descriptions of the
Line Attribute (LA) and Line Type (LT) commands in the
PCL 5 Printer Language Technical Reference Manual.
The number of pens is defaulted by an IN command.
This command is ignored if the current palette was created
by the Simple Color command (?*r#U) or ?E.
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