4

Print Environment

Introduction

All of a printer’s current feature settings are collectively

 

referred to as a print environment. A PCL printer

 

maintains four print environments: Factory Default

 

Environment, User Default Environment, Modified Print,

 

and Overlay Environment.

 

This chapter identifies the Factory Default Environment

 

and User Default Environment. The Factory Default

 

Environment, which is programmed into a printer at the

 

factory, is listed in Table 4-1 for the PCL context and

 

Table 4-2 for the HP-GL/2 context. The User Default

 

Environment, which can be set from a printer’s control

 

panel, is listed in Table 4-3.

Note

 

If a feature setting is not supported on a printer (for exam-

 

ple, duplex on non-duplex printers, or status readback on

 

printers which do not support that feature), then the

 

printer’s print environment does not contain that feature

 

setting. In the following tables, not all values are used for

 

all printers. See Table 1-1 to identify supported values for a

 

certain HP printer.

 

The HP LaserJet 4PJ printer defaults to the ESC/P person-

 

ality. The defaults listed here are for PCL only.

Print Environment 4-1