Common PCL 5e printer commands (continued)

Function

Command

Options (#)

 

 

 

Symbol Sets

?(#

8U = HP Roman-8 Symbol Set

 

 

10U = IBM Layout (PC-8) (code page 437) Default Symbol Set

 

 

12U = IBM Layout for Europe (PC-850) (code page 850)

 

 

8M = Math-8

 

 

19U = Windows 3.1 Latin 1

 

 

9E = Windows 3.1 Latin 2 (commonly used in Eastern Europe)

 

 

5T = Windows 3.1 Latin 5 (commonly used in Turkey)

 

 

579L = Wingdings Font

Font selection

Primary Spacing

Primary Pitch

Set Pitch Mode2

Primary Height

Primary Style

?(s#P

?(s#H

?&k#S

?(s#V

?(s#S

0 = fixed

1 = proportional

# = characters/inch

0 = 10

4 = 12 (elite)

2 = 16.5 - 16.7 (compressed)

# = points

0 = upright (solid)

1 = italic

4 = condensed

5 = condensed italic

Primary Stroke Wt.

?(s#B

0

= medium (book or text)

 

 

1

= semi bold

 

 

3

= bold

 

 

4

= extra bold

Typeface

?(s#T

Print a PCL 5e font list to view the command for each internal

 

 

font (page 190).

1For custom paper, replace “Custompapertype” with the name of the paper, and replace the “#” with the number of characters in the name, plus 1.

2The preferred method is to use the primary pitch command.

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