Adaptive Compression Operation Hints

 

 

Note

Some HP LaserJet printers perform internal compression techniques

 

to support full-page graphics. Refer to Chapter 1 of the PCL 5

 

Comparison Guide for specifics.

 

 

The compression methods cannot be mixed within one raster row. A raster row must be compressed using only one method.

The cursor position is updated with each row of the raster block. The cursor position is also incremented when a block count of less than 3 is sent.

A Raster Y-Offset command moves the entire block of raster data and initializes the seed row to zeros. The seed row is set to zero even if the y-offset is zero.

Block size takes precedence over row length. If the row length of any line exceeds the block size, the row length is truncated to the block size.

For duplicate and empty rows, a row length value of zero does not update the cursor, however the seed row is initialized to zero.

If an unsupported command byte for a raster row is encountered, the remaining bytes for the block are skipped, the seed row is cleared, and the cursor is not incremented.

For method 1, run length encoded, if the row length is odd, the cursor is incremented, the row data is skipped (thrown away), and the seed row is left unchanged.

For method 1, a row length value of zero increments the cursor and zero fills the seed row.

For method 2, TIFF, if row length terminates the data before the control byte value is satisfied (literal byte count greater than row length), the data following the control byte, if any, is printed as text. The cursor is incremented.

For Method 2—if row length is equal to one, the one byte is consumed from the I/O and the cursor is incremented. The data is ignored and the seed row is zeroed.

For Method 3—delta row compression, within an adaptive compression block, the seed row is updated by every raster compression method or type of row. For example, a row compressed with Method 2, TIFF, updates the seed row, while the effect of an empty row initializes the seed row to zeros. Maintaining the seed row allows Method 3 to be mixed with other methods to achieve optimal compression performance.

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