HP 5961-0509 manual PCL Print Model

13 The PCL Print Model

Introduction

The Print Model feature allows images and characters to be filled with any of the printer’s predefined shading or cross-hatch patterns, or with a user-defined pattern. Images include any raster graphic, such as one created with PCL raster graphics commands (as described in Chapter 15, Raster Graphics); a rectangular fill area (as described in Chapter 14, PCL Rectangular Area Fill Graphics); or a character or characters selected from any font.

Print model operation defines a pattern, source image, and destination image. These images are applied to each other using the print model’s transparent and opaque modes to produce a resulting image that is a combination of the others. The print model features, listed below, are illustrated in Figure 13-1 and Figure 13-2, and described on the following pages.

zPattern

zSource Image

zDestination Image

zSource Transparency Mode

zPattern Transparency Mode

Figure 13-1 Print Model Imaging

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