HP 5961-0509 Entity Status Responses, Font Response, Font status, Symbol set are described below

Entity Status Responses

The status response for an Inquire Status Readback Entity command varies depending on the type of entity requested. The status responses for font, font extended, macro, user-defined pattern,

and symbol set are described below.

Font Response

The status response information returned for font (inquire entity value field 0) varies. Depending on whether the printer’s font is a bitmap, unbound scalable, or bound scalable, different keywords are returned. The response is also somewhat different if the location type is set to 1 (currently selected, as explained in more detail later). The list of possible keywords for a font request is shown below.

SELECT=

SYMBOLSETS=

LOCTYPE=

LOCUNIT=

An example of an inquire entity font (entity type 0) status response is shown below. Notice the variation in the keyword lines for the three fonts, listed in order below:

Internal, bitmap, Line Printer

Internal, unbound scalable, CG Times italic

Downloaded, bound scalable, (CG Palacio)

Font status:

PCL

INFO FONTS

SELECT=“<Esc>(8U<Esc>(s0p16.67h8.5v0s0b0T”

SELECT=“<Esc>(s1p__v1s0b4101T”

SYMBOLSETS=“0D,0I,0N,0S,0U,1E,1F,1G,...”

SELECT=“<Esc>(1U<Esc>(s1p__v0s0b4111T<Esc>(21X”

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In a font status response, individual fonts are identified by the “SELECT=” keyword line, as shown in the example above. This line identifies the font by specifying the font selection characteristics (symbol set, spacing, pitch, height, style, stroke weight, and typeface). The characteristics are listed as they would be sent to the printer to select the font (in priority order, highest priority to lowest). “SELECT=” is returned for all font types.

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