Homelite HL-1250 Printer User Manual


 
10/10/03
CHAPTER 2 "PCL" - 3
4.2.9.
Units..................................................................................................................................................25
4.2.10. Unit of measure ................................................................................................................................25
4.2.11. Setting the left and right margins......................................................................................................25
4.2.12.
Resetting the horizontal margins......................................................................................................26
4.2.13. Setting the top margin.......................................................................................................................26
4.2.14. Setting the vertical motion index (VMI).............................................................................................27
4.2.15.
Setting the horizontal motion index (HMI) ........................................................................................27
4.2.16. Setting line spacing...........................................................................................................................28
4.2.17. Text length ........................................................................................................................................28
4.2.18. Page length.......................................................................................................................................29
4.2.19. Perforation skip.................................................................................................................................29
4.2.20.
Positioning the cursor .......................................................................................................................30
4.2.21. Vertical positioning............................................................................................................................30
4.2.22. Horizontal position ............................................................................................................................31
4.2.23.
Positioning the cursor using control codes.......................................................................................32
4.2.24. Using the cursor position stack.........................................................................................................32
4.2.25. Half line feed.....................................................................................................................................33
4.2.26. Logical page orientation ...................................................................................................................33
4.2.27. Text direction ....................................................................................................................................33
5.
USING FONTS ...................................................................................................................35
5.1.
Introduction ...............................................................................................................................35
5.1.1.
Font types .........................................................................................................................................35
5.1.2. Bitmap fonts......................................................................................................................................35
5.1.3. Scalable fonts ...................................................................................................................................35
5.1.4.
Bound fonts.......................................................................................................................................36
5.1.5. Unbound fonts ..................................................................................................................................36
5.1.6. Font sources .....................................................................................................................................36
5.1.7. Internal fonts .....................................................................................................................................36
5.1.8. Card/cartridge fonts ..........................................................................................................................37
5.1.9.
Downloadable fonts ..........................................................................................................................37
5.1.10. Primary and secondary fonts............................................................................................................37
5.1.11. Specifying the primary font ...............................................................................................................37
5.1.12.
Specifying the secondary font ..........................................................................................................37
5.1.13. Selecting the default fonts ................................................................................................................37
5.1.14. Switching between the primary and secondary fonts.......................................................................37
5.1.15. Criteria for font selection...................................................................................................................38
5.1.16. Symbol set ........................................................................................................................................38
5.1.17. Symbol collections............................................................................................................................38
5.1.18. Type of character spacing ................................................................................................................38
5.1.19. Pitch..................................................................................................................................................38
5.1.20.
Height................................................................................................................................................38
5.1.21. Style..................................................................................................................................................38
5.1.22. Stroke weight ....................................................................................................................................39
5.1.23.
Typeface ...........................................................................................................................................39
5.2.
Font Selection Commands........................................................................................................40
5.2.1. User-defined symbol sets .................................................................................................................40
5.2.2. Symbol set ID code command..........................................................................................................40
5.2.3. Define symbol set .............................................................................................................................40
5.2.4.
Symbol set control command ...........................................................................................................42
5.2.5. Selecting the symbol set...................................................................................................................42
5.2.6. Selecting the type of character spacing ...........................................................................................44
5.2.7.
Selecting the pitch ............................................................................................................................44
5.2.8. Selecting the height ..........................................................................................................................45