Manual Organization
This manual contains seven chapters and four appendices. Chapters 2 through 4 describe command usage for the HP Color LaserJet 4500 and 8500 printers. Appendices A through D describe how these functions are achieved on the HP Color LaserJet, Color LaserJet 5, 5M, and the DeskJet 1200C and 1600C printers. Chapters 5 through 7 pertain to all the color printers described in this manual. A brief description of each chapter is provided below.
Chapter 1. Color Printing Overview
This chapter explains background information about printing color documents using PCL 5. Topics include palettes, color selection, pixel encoding, color modes, and color matching.
Chapter 2. Using Color Modes
Chapter 2 defines the color modes and describes how to use them, including descriptions of sending color raster data using different pixel encoding modes and color spaces.
Chapter 3. Using Palettes
This chapter describes the palettes associated with the color modes and explains how palettes are created, saved, and modified.
Chapter 4. Modifying Output Color
This chapter explains the options for modifying the output color: the Render Algorithm command, the Monochrome Print Mode command, Driver Configuration command, and Finish Mode command.
Chapter 5. The PCL Print Model
Chapter 5 describes the print model and how it determines the printed outcome when various patterns, colors, and images are applied together on a page. This chapter discusses the role that logical operations and transparency modes have on this process.
Chapter 6. Raster Graphics
This chapter describes the raster graphics commands and also compressing raster graphics images using various compression methods.
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