The IW command lets you control the size of the HP-GL/2 printing area so that you can draw a particular portion of a drawing. You can leave the rest as white space, or use the remaining area for labels, or another drawing. Refer to “The Vector Graphic Limits” in Chapter 17, and the IW command description later in this chapter.

CO, Comment

This command allows comments to be inserted within an HP-GL/2 command sequence. The comment string of the CO command must be delimited by double quotes.

CO text ... text

HP-GL/2 comments are ignored by the printer.

DF, Default Values

This command returns the printer’s HP-GL/2 settings to the factory default settings. Use the Default Values (DF) command to return the printer to a known state while maintaining the current locations of P1 and P2 (unlike the IN command). When you use DF at the beginning of a command sequence, graphics parameters such as character size, slant, or scaling are defaulted.

DF [;]

The DF command resets the printer to the conditions listed in Table 19-7.

Table 19-7 Default Conditions

Function

Command

Default Condition

 

 

 

Anchor Corner

AC

Anchor corner (not the

 

 

same as the picture frame

 

 

anchor point) set to

 

 

lower-left corner of PCL

 

 

Picture Frame, relative to

 

 

the current coordinate

 

 

system.

 

 

 

Alternate Font

AD

Stick Font (11.5-pt., 9-cpi,

Definition

 

upright, medium)

 

 

 

Character Fill Mode

CF

Solid fill, no edging.

 

 

 

EN

CO, Comment 19-19

Page 433
Image 433
HP 5961-0509 manual CO, Comment, DF, Default Values, HP-GL/2 comments are ignored by the printer, Default Conditions