Common PCL 5e printer commands

Common PCL 5e printer commands

Job control commands

Function

Command

Options (#)

Reset

?E

n/a

Number of copies

?&l#X

1 to 999

2-sided/1-sided printing

?&l#S

0 = Simplex (1-sided) printing

 

 

1

= Duplex (2-sided) with long edge binding

 

 

2

= Duplex (2-sided) with short edge binding

Paper source

?&l#H

0 = prints or ejects current page

 

 

1

= Tray 2

 

 

2

= manual feed, paper

 

 

3

= manual feed, envelope

 

 

4

= Tray 1

 

 

5

= Tray 3

 

 

6

= Envelope Feeder

 

 

7

= auto select

 

 

8

= Tray 4

 

 

20-69 = external trays

Page control commands

Paper size

Paper type

?&l#A

?&n#

1 = Executive

2 = Letter

3 = Legal

25 = A5

26 = A4

45 = B5-JIS

80 = Monarch envelope

81 = Commercial 10 envelope

90 = DL ISO envelope

91 = C5 ISO envelope

100 = B5 ISO envelope

101 = Custom

5WdBond = Bond

6WdPlain = Plain

6WdColor = Color 7WdLabels = Labels 9WdRecycled = Recycled 11WdLetterhead = Letterhead 10WdCardstock = Cardstock 11WdPrepunched = Prepunched 11WdPreprinted = Preprinted 13WdTransparency = Transparency #WdCustompapertype = Custom1

Orientation

?&l#O

0

= Portrait

 

 

1

= Landscape

 

 

2

= Reverse Portrait

 

 

3

= Reverse Landscape

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