May 1992 720P40020
Xerox 4213 Laser Printer Programmer Reference
Page
 European EME regulations
Laser safety
 Operational safety
 Title
Related publications
Page
 Table of contents
 XES command language mode
 Vii
 Viii
 Table of Contents
 Table of Contents
 LJ series 2D emulation
 Xii
 Xiii
 Xiv
 PostScript emulation
 Index
Appendices
 Introduction
 Interfaces
Purpose of this manual
What this manual contains
 Conventions used in this manual
Variances
 Comment or explanation set off from from
 Parallel interface cable
Parallel interface
 Select metered data
Return to print mode
Centronics interface
Select the Centronics parallel interface
 Centronics interface connector
Centronics connector
 Pin Direction Signal Description
Centronics signals and pin assignments
Centronics signals and pin assignments
 Error L
Centronics Signals Pin
 Centronics interface timing
Centronics interface timing
 Select the Dataproducts parallel interface
Dataproducts
Centronics Interface Voltage
Requirements
 Dataproducts interface connector
Dataproducts connector
 Dataproducts signals and pin assignments Pin Signal Source
Dataproducts signals and pin assignments
 Dataproducts interface timing
Dataproducts interface timing
 Select the serial interface
Serial interface
Dataproducts voltage and current requirements
 Set parity
Set baud rate
 Return to printer operation
RS232 serial connector
Set flow control
 Serial signals and pin assignments
Serial interface features supported
 Telephone Co
Asynchronous serial signals and pin assignments
Pin Signal Designation
Null modem
 Null modem wiring
 Automatic mode switching
Configuring the 4213 for the XES command language mode
 PostScript Emulation
Mode change command
Reset command
Reset
 Three types of escape sequences
Definition of a printer command
Command syntax as expressed in this chapter
 +P,commentL
Job control commands
 User-Defined Key, or substitute escape character
Simple commands
Commands with user-entered variables
 ForEnter
Showing commands in printed output
Converting the User-Defined Key to a printable character
 Printing the sequence =UDK= as text
Cancelling a User-Defined Key
 Tips on selecting a UDK
Line end
 Font orientation
How the printer defines a
Orientation
 Font and page orientation
Coordinates, units of measure, and paper feed direction
 Determining the paper feed edge
Specifications for short-edge feed paper
 Capacity
Capacity specifications Type of data
 Setting job boundaries
 Examples
Command Where to place it What it does
 Syntax
Print Job
 +Q,comment L
Print Job Mixed Orientation
 Example
Reset
Purpose
 Formatting the printed output
 +Cn,comment L
Multiple Copies
 Instruction to print multiple copies
Multiple Copies Non-Collated
 Paper Tray
Purpose Syntax Where to place it
 Ezybn
Bypass Slot Paper Size
 ±23
 Offset
 Sided book
Syntax Where to place it More EzydnL
 Syntax Ezyf n L
Sided Inverted pad
 Syntax Ezyi n
Syntax Where to place it More EzyeL
Sided Stop
Sided Side Select
 Zya
Comment
Purpose Syntax
 Fonts on
Where to place it Any place in the job
 How fonts are stored
 How to download fonts from the host computer
 Instruction to load font data
Font Load
 Instruction to delete stored font file
Font Add
Font Delete
 Font Unload
Using fonts in a document
 +nfontnameL
Font ID Assignment
 Example To create an index of five fonts, enter
 Font Select
Setting units of measure
 Ezf
UnitsÐ1/60
UnitsÐ1/300
Syntax Ezg
 More about page boundaries
About margins
More about page and font orientations
 Syntax EmH,T,B,L,RL
Text placement restrictions on the 4213 printer
Margins
 Measuring a portrait
 Measuring a landscape
Setting independent margins
 Margin Bottom
Margin Top
 About tabs
Margin Left
Margin Right
 More about page boundaries
Tabs Horizontal
More about job boundaries
 Tn1,n2,...,n160 L
 1/60 inch units
Tabs Clear Horizontal
 Tabs Vertical
 Portrait Landscape
Maximum values For vertical tabs Letter Legal Units Portrait
 Vertical tabs in 1/60 inch units
 10.Vertical tabs in 1/300 inch units
 About centreing
Tabs Clear Vertical
Justifying and centreing between margins
About justification
 Justification Start/Stop
Syntax Where to place it Example
 Between the left Right margins
Centre
 Line Spacing
About the page formatting features
 Syntax Eip n L
Line Spacing Absolute
 Example Enter
Text Placement Absolute
 Ea X, Y L
 Ea1500,3000L He who laughs Origin
 Text Placement Relative
 Current textErl75eNew text
 Line Draw
13.Relative placement 1500 pixels down
 XES Command Language Mode
 Line Draw Y
14.Line Draw X command
 XES Command Language Mode
 15.Line Draw Y command To produce
 16.Fifteen degrees of shading for Line Draw commands
 Italics
About character formatting
Bold Start/Bold Stop
 Bold font simply
Underline Start/Underline Stop
 Instruction to stop overstriking
Purpose Syntax Where to place it Example
Overstrike Start/Overstrike Stop
Subscript Start/Subscript Stop
 C2H5OH
 Superscript Start/Superscript Stop
Purpose Syntax Where to place it Example More
 17. Constant
What is a constant page?
 Data capacity for each
Creating constant pages
Merge Page Load
 Merge Page Unload
 Merge Start
Merging constant pages
 Syntax Ezd
Syntax Where to place it More Eze
Merge Stop
Graphics on
 18. Raster data
Raster graphics
 Macro graphics
What is a graphic window?
Vector graphics
 Origin and page orientation
Placement on
 Scan direction for raster graphics
Other characteristics
Graphic Window
 EgwMor Mx/My,I,RX,Y,Sx,SyL
 Origin of the graphic window. X is the distance
 Capacity for graphic windows
More about graphic windows
 More about magnification
Magnification and resolution
 22.Changing placement for a magnified window
Magnification and window placement
 Rotating images
Reversing images
 24.Graphic window rotation
Graphic commands and the current text position
 Copying graphic windows
Graphic commands and the current graphic position
 Graphic Window Repeat
 Egr0,3900,1500L
 26.A graphic window copied at another location on
Creating graphic images
 Graphic Line
 Egl5150,1050,300,600,600,975,900,525,1200,1050L
 27.A graphic line drawn inside a graphic window
Graphic Arc
 Additional pairs of starting and ending angle
 29.Four arcs drawn with one command
 Graphic Box
 Instruction for a fill pattern
Graphic Fill
 31.Predefined fill patterns
 32.Fill pattern bounded by a graphic figure
 XES Command Language Mode
 Instruction for a pie chart
Graphic Pie Chart
 Percent of the pie to be taken up by the first
 34.Creating a pie chart
More about Graphic Pie Chart
 Purpose of the data monitor
Syntax Where to place it More
Data Monitor
 36.Close up of data monitor printout
Character codes on the Xerox
 Bit coding schemes
Supported coding schemes
Control codes
 User defined translation tables
Translation table structure
Special Table
 More about the table data record
Start-of-record indicator
Record-type indicator
 Table entries
Byte count
Load address
 Record terminator
Character Reassignment
 Syntax Ezt
Load Translation Table
 Ezlc
Language
 Sample job
 U.S. English code mapping
 Building the file
 37.Completed table download record
Invoking the base table
 38.New character assignments over original table
 Customised mapping table U.S. English code
 More about creating tables
 122
 Primary and secondary fonts
Font compatibility
 Font characteristics
 Portrait orientation page layout y,x
 Pitch
Symbol set
Font source
Spacing
 Typeface
Stroke weight
Font selection by characteristics
Font selection
 Resident fonts
Font selection by ID
 ECMA-94
 Courier Medium Italic PC-850 Legal Bold Upright Roman
 Cartridge fonts
PCL4 command structure
 Variable sequence character
Escape sequences
Escape sequences with parameters
Escape sequences without parameters
 Final parameter character
Numeric variable
Parameter character
 Binary data
Using parameter and final parameter
Combining escape sequences
Upper Lower Case Sequence
 Combined Escape Sequence
PCL4 command reference
 Purpose Syntax Example
Job control commands
Printer Reset
Number of Copies
 Left Offset Registration
Sided/2-sided
 Sided Page Side Selection
Top Offset Registration
 Paper Source
Control commands
Paper Source
Paper source values
 Size
 Paper Size
Length
Paper size values
 Letter Legal 112 Executive
 Left Margin
 Syntax Example
Right Margin
 Text Length
Clear Horizontal Margins
Top Margin
 Perforation Region
 Vertical Motion Index
Horizontal Motion Index
 Line Spacing
Cursor positioning commands
 Horizontal Cursor Position Decipoints
Horizontal Cursor Position Columns
 Horizontal Cursor Position Spots
 Vertical Cursor Position Rows
 Vertical Cursor Position Decipoints
 Vertical Cursor Position Spots
 #Gz
Half-line Feed
Line Termination
 Host Printer
End-of-Line Wrap
Line ending options
Line endings
 Carriage Return CR
Push/Pop Cursor Position
Control codes for cursor positioning
# S
 Line Feed LF
Font commands
Backspace BS
Horizontal Tab HT
 Symbol Set
 ISO 14 JIS Ascii
LJ2D symbol sets with ID numbers Symbol Set
 Spacing
 Es10H
 Style
 Stroke Weight
 Gradations of Stroke weight Stroke Weight
 10.Typefaces and code numbers # Typeface
 Default Font
 Fixed underlining
Transparent Data
Underline
#Xtransparent data
 Font ID
Disable Underline
Primary and secondary fonts
 Function
Font Control
11.Font Control functions
 Font Descriptor
 Syntax #Wfont descriptor + data
Character Code
 #Wcharacter descriptor + data
Character Descriptor and Data
 Raster Graphics Resolution
Graphics commands
 Start Graphics
Raster Graphics Presentation Mode
12.Values for graphics resolution Graphics Resolution
 Syntax #W# bytes of raster data
13.Graphics margin settings Left graphics margin
Transfer Raster Data
 Horizontal Rectangle Size Spots
End Graphics
Horizontal Rectangle Size Decipoints
 Area Fill ID
Vertical Rectangle Size Decipoints
Vertical Rectangle Size Spots
 Area Fill patterns
 Area Fill shading density
 14.Fill types for rectangular areas Rectangle Fill Type
Fill Rectangular Area
Examples of filled rectangles
 LJ Series 2D Emulation
 Macro Control
Macro commands
Macro ID
 15.Macro control functions Function
Example of a macro
 LJ Series 2D Emulation
 Papername ÐpapernameÐ
Userdict operators for page type
 Letter
 Statusdict operators
Serverdict begin password exitserver
System parameters
 Sccinteractive
System set up operators Pagecount Ðpagecount integer
Setprintername String setprinternameÐ Printername
Setsccinteractive
 Defaulttimeout
Timeout operators
 Output positioning operators
 Sided operators
 Tray selection operators
 Trayswitch Trayswitch boolean
Setdefaulttrayswitch Boolean setdefaulttrayswitch
Defaulttrayswitch Defaulttrayswitch boolean
Settrayswitch Boolean settrayswitch
 Com10envelopetray
Legaltray
Executivetray
A4tray
 Echo D LPT1 or COM1, etc
Handling syntax errors
Handling printer errors
Dlenvelopetray
 A4 paper throughput images/minute
Jam recovery on Jam recovery off Simplex Duplex
Letter Paper Throughput Images/minute
Legal Paper Throughput images/minute
 Memory VM Bytes Font cache Bytes
VM and font cache allocation
 Postscript Emulation
 4213
3270
 Index
 Danish/Norwegian
 German
 Job
 Macro
 Index
 Safety
 VMI, see Vertical Motion Index
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