Star Micronics 8 Series manual What do LaserJet II commands look like?

TheHewlett-PackardLaserJetseriesIIis anearlierkindoflaserprinterthan yourStarLaserPrinter8. Youshouldhaveno troublerunningmostpopular softwarepackagesinHPLaserJetIImode,asthoseprogramslikelycansend LaserJet11commands.

BecausetheLaserJetII is alaserprinter,though,its commandscan giveyou more controlover your Star LaserPrinter8 than is possiblewith the other built-incommandsets. You will probablyuse this emulation’scommands more than the others. Recognizingthat reality,we’veput more examples into this chapter.

We followthe same sequencein this chapteras we did in Chapter2: first some printer managementand page setup commands,then we’ll cover commandsthatpoisethelaser“pen”overthe paper,next we’llpick a font, and finallywe’lllay down our wordsand pictures.

At the end of the chapterwedescribehowto createanduse yourown fonts, and also how to sav~time by writingcommandmacros.

HP LASERJET II COMMANDS

What do LaserJet II commands look like?

The LaserJet11emulationmode includesa dozen commoncontrolcodes (suchas <CR>for carnagereturns)and single-characterEscapesequences (such as cESD E for resettingthe printer). But all the other LaserJet II emulationcommandsyou can‘sendyourStar LaserPrinter8 look like this:

<ESC>cc n C

in whichthe cc prefix is a symbolor two showingthe generalcategoryof commandsto whichthisonebelongs,n is somevariableyou wantto usein this command,and C is the specificcommandyou want performed.

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