HP 5961-0509 manual Logical Page Orientation Command, ? & l # O

Logical Page Orientation Command

Orientation defines the position of the logical page and the default direction of print with respect to the physical page as shown in Figure 5-1.

?& l # O

#= 0 - Portrait

1 - Landscape

2 - Reverse Portrait

3 - Reverse Landscape

Default = 0

Range = 0-3 (Other values ignored)

Notes

Note

This command can be used only once per page. To print multiple directions per page use the Print Direction command.

This command affects the HP-GL/2 environment (refer to Table 5-1 and the ***“HP-GL/2 and PCL Orientation Interaction” section in Chapter 15 for additional information).

The Orientation command causes the page length, top margin, text length, left and right margins, horizontal motion index (HMI), and vertical motion index (VMI) to return to their user default values, and disables the automatic macro overlay. All data received prior to this command is printed, and a Form Feed and Carriage Return executed. The cursor is moved to the left edge of the logical page at the top margin cursor position (see Figure 5-5).

The factory default orientation is portrait. Landscape orientation may be selected as the user default orientation using the control panel.

The HP LaserJet 2000, LaserJet IID, LaserJet IIP and all PCL 5 printers automatically rotate all fonts to the current orientation.

Table 5-1 shows how changing certain PCL features (such as a reset, orientation, page size or page length) or changing the HP-GL/2 picture presentation directives (picture frame width or height, horizontal or vertical plot size, or picture frame anchor point) affect the HP-GL/2 state variables.

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