Brother HL-1260E Quick Reference of Commands, PCL Command Sets, Control Code, ESC Format, Esc

USER’S GUIDE

QUICK REFERENCE OF COMMANDS

The following tables show commands sorted by function. For further information about commands, refer to the “Technical Reference Manual,” which is optionally available.

✒Note

l represents the lowercase l letter. Script notation is used because lowercase l and the number 1 can be easily confused with each other.

HP LaserJet 4+ Mode

PCL Command Sets

Function	Command	Decimal	Hexadecimal
CONTROL CODE
Backspace	BS	08	08
Horizontal Tab	HT	09	09
Line Feed	LF	10	0A
Form Feed	FF	12	0C
Carriage Return	CR	13	0D
Secondary Font Select	SO	14	0E
Primary font Select	SI	15	0F
Escape	ESC	27	1B
PAGE FORMAT
Page Length	ESC & l # P	27 38 108 ## 80	1B	26	6C	## 50
	(# lines)
Top Margin	ESC & l # E	27 38 108 ## 69	1B	26	6C	## 45
	(# lines)
Text Length	ESC & l # F	27 38 108 ## 70	1B	26	6C	## 46
	(# lines)
Left Margin	ESC & a # L	27 38 97 ## 76	1B 26		61 ## 4C
	(# column)
Right Margin	ESC & a # M	27 38 97 ## 77	1B	26	61 ## 4D
	(# column)
Clear Side Margin	ESC 9	27 57	1B	39
Line Pitch	ESC & l # C	27 38 108 ## 67	1B	26	6C	## 43
	(# /48 inch)
Line Spacing	ESC & l # D	27 38 108 ## 68	1B	26	6C	## 44
1 line/inch	ESC & l 1 D	27 38 108 49 68	1B	26	6C	31 44
2 lines/inch	ESC & l 2 D	27 38 108 50 68	1B	26	6C	32 44
3 lines/inch	ESC & l 3 D	27 38 108 51 68	1B	26	6C	33 44
4 lines/inch	ESC & l 4 D	27 38 108 52 68	1B	26	6C	34 44
6 lines/inch	ESC & l 6 D	27 38 108 54 68	1B	26	6C	36 44
8 lines/inch	ESC & l 8 D	27 38 108 56 68	1B	26	6C	38 44
12 lines/inch	ESC & l 12 D	27 38 108 49 50 68	1B	26	6C	31 32 44
16 lines/inch	ESC & l 16 D	27 38 108 49 54 68	1B	26	6C	31 36 44
24 lines/inch	ESC & l 24 D	27 38 108 50 52 68	1B	26	6C	32 34 44
48 lines/inch	ESC & l 48 D	27 38 108 52 56 68	1B	26	6C	34 38 44
Character Pitch	ESC & k # H	27 38 107 ## 72	1B	26	6B	## 48
	(# /120 inch)
ex. 10 pitch	ESC & k 12 H	27 38 107 49 50 72	1B	26	6B	31 32 48

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