Homelite HL-1470N, HL-P2500, HL-1660E, 2060 NP Number of Pens Command, CR Color Range Command, NP n

10/10/03

•PC [pen;]: sets the pen to the default color.

Number of pens in palette	Pen number	Color
2 (“NP 2;”)	0	White
	1	Black
4 (“NP 4;”)	0	White
	1	Black
	2	Red
	3	Green
8 (“NP 8;”)	0	White
	1	Black
	2	Red
	3	Green
	4	Yellow
	5	Blue
	6	Magenta
	7	Cyan

**If the number of pens in the palette is over 8, the color is set to black.

6.3.NP (Number of Pens) Command

Command

NP [n;]

NP [;]

Range = 2 ~ 32768

Default value = 8

•This command makes the palette the specified size after the Initialize Set Instruction command or Set PCL Color Setting command is executed.

•The n value represents the palette number with the value of 2n. When it cannot be indicated with the value of 2n, the next value, 2n+1 is selected.

•When a value over 257 is specified, 256 is selected.

•When a value less than 2 is specified, it is ignored.

•The specified palette can be selected by the Select Pen command. When the value specified by the Select Pen command is bigger than the palette number specified by this command, the value of the remainder is used.

6.4.CR (Color Range) Command

Command
CR [....]
Range = - 32768 ~ 32767
Default value is listed below;
	R	G	B
Black reference	0	0	0
White reference	255	255	255
Black reference:	specifies	the black	value (the highest level of density)
White reference:	specifies the white value (the lowest level of density)

•This command sets the range for specifying relative color data.

•The value specified by this command is reset to the default value by the CR [;]or IN [;] command.

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