Xerox 701P21091 manual PDL principles and procedures

1.PDL principles and procedures

The Xerox LCDS Print Description Language (PDL) is a set of commands that you give to the printing system to define properties such as the appearance, output destination, and paper feed source for your LCDS print job.

You can use LCDS PDL to do all of the following in your print jobs:

•Change and mix font types on a page to page, line to line, or character to character basis. This allows you to customize printed output for specific needs; for example, emphasizing important headings by changing font styles and sizes.

•Change text orientation and positioning on a page to page basis. This allows you to print characters along the width or length of the page with equal ease. The printing system can switch instantly, at a page boundary, between portrait (tall and narrow) and landscape (wide) page formats, combining the two styles within a single report.

•Print a number of previously separate logical pages on the same physical page of a document.

•Modify documents on a page to page basis by using copy modification entries (CMEs) to replace selected portions of text with other data, change fonts, or label copies as “confidential.”

•Merge variable print data with forms stored on the system disk. This feature eliminates the need for forms overlays and most preprinted forms, as well as assuring perfect registration.

•Print two different forms back to back (duplex) on one sheet of paper, thereby reducing paper costs. Additionally, this option offers potential savings in inventory, filing, storage, and mailing costs for computer generated material.

•Feed paper either short edge first or long edge first to accommodate a variety of paper sizes.

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