Table 2-14. PCL Feature Additions for HP Color LaserJet Printer (continued)
Feature | Status | Comments |
PC (Pen | New | Changes the pen color in a palette created by the IN or CID |
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| command (?*v#W). |
Push/Pop Palette | New | Pushes or pops the palette from the palette stack. |
Raster Scaling | New/Modified | Several commands are added for raster scaling: Destination |
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| Raster Width (?*t#H), Destination Raster Height (?*t#V); |
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| also, two parameters are added to the Start Raster Graphics |
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| command to initiate scaling (?*r2A and ?*r3A). (See the PCL |
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| 5 Color Technical Reference Manual for more information.) |
Render Algorithm | New | Selects the algorithm to be used for rendering page marking |
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| entities on a given page. |
Select Palette by ID | New | Activates a palette with the specified ID number. |
Set Viewing Illuminant | New | Specifies the relative white point used in the determination of |
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| a viewing illuminant condition. |
Simple Color | New | Specifies an unmodifiable |
Transfer Raster Graphics (by | New | Provides a means to send raster data by color plane. This |
plane) |
| command sends a plane of raster data to the printer and |
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| advances to the next plane. |
AppleTalk
Configuration
Command
As discussed in the HP LaserJet 4 section of this chapter, the AppleTalk Configuration command allows a user to send PCL jobs to the printer over AppleTalk. In addition to the key values previously discussed (RENAME, TYPE, and JOB), the HP Color LaserJet printer also supports the ZONE key value as follows.
ZONE
ZONE changes the zone field of the printer’s AppleTalk Network Identifier (Name Binding Protocol type field).
?&b#WZONE<sp>zonename
Valid characters for the zone name include