HP L5 manual HP LaserJet 4PJ Printer, PCL Feature Additions for HP LaserJet 4PJ

HP LaserJet 4PJ Printer

The HP LaserJet 4PJ printer is a modified version of the HP LaserJet 4P printer designed specifically for the Japanese market. The enhanced PCL 5 printer language in this printer includes all of the PCL 5 features of the HP LaserJet 4P, plus special features which specifically support the Asian printing market. These features include large font support, support for vertical printing, and the ESC/P printer language. Table 2-8 lists the PCL feature additions for this printer.

Table 2-8. PCL Feature Additions for HP LaserJet 4PJ

Feature	Status	Comments
Text Parsing Method Command	New	Provides a method for specifying character
		codes to select characters in large fonts (> 256
		characters).
Character Text Path Direction Command	New	Allows vertical printing for Asian markets,
		which use both horizontal and vertical printing.
Font Header Format	Modified	Adds Font Format 16, a font header which
		supports large TrueType fonts. Five new font
		header segments are supported.
Fonts	New Additions	The resident typefaces are different than those
	and Deletions	in the HP LaserJet 4P printer. Two large fonts
		(fonts containing a large number of characters)
		are included to support the Japanese market:
		MS Mincho and MS Gothic. The printer also
		contains some Western TrueType typefaces
		(Arial and Times Roman families). The printer
		does not have any Intellifont typefaces except
		the Courier family.
Page Size Command	New Additions	Adds support for JIS B5 paper (?&l45A) and
		two Japanese postcard sizes: Hagaki (?&l71A)
		and Oufuku-Hagaki (?&l72A).
Character Enhancements	New	Allows pseudo-bold and pseudo-italic
		enhancements to be applied to MS Mincho, MS
		Gothic, and certain downloaded TrueType fonts.

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