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PCL Menu

You can set conditions when using PCL for printing.

Orientation

You can select the page orientation.

Default: [Portrait]

  • Portrait

  • Landscape

Form Lines

You can specify the number of lines per page from 5 to 128. The default paper size is used when the paper size is not specified in the print data.

Default:

Region A icon(mainly Europe and Asia)
[64]

Region B icon(mainly North America)
[60]

Font Source

You can specify the location of the default font.

When you select [RAM], you can select only fonts downloaded to the machine’s RAM.

When you select [HDD], you can select only fonts downloaded to the optional hard disk.

When you select [SD] or [SD Font Download], you can select only fonts downloaded to the SD card.

Default: [Resident]

  • Resident

  • RAM

  • HDD

  • SD

  • SD Font Download

Font Number

You can specify the ID of the default font you want to use.

Default: [0]

  • When [Resident] is selected in [Font Source]: 0 to 103

  • When any font source other than [Resident] is specified: 1 to X (Download; "X" is the number of downloaded fonts)

Point Size

You can specify the point size you want to use for the default font between 4.00 and 999.75 in 0.25 increments. This setting is effective only for a variable-space font.

Default: [12.00]

Font Pitch

You can specify the number of characters per inch you want to use for the default font between 0.44 and 99.99 in 0.01 increments. This setting is effective only for fixed-space fonts.

Default: [10.00]

Symbol Set

You can specify the character set for the default font.

Default: [PC-8]

Available sets are as follows:

Roman-8, Roman-9, ISO L1, ISO L2, ISO L5, ISO L6, ISO L9, PC-775, PC-8, PC-8 D/N, PC-850, PC-852, PC-858, PC8-TK, PC-1004, Win L1, Win L2, Win L5, Win Baltic, Desktop, PS Text, MS Publ, Math-8, PS Math, Pifont, Legal, ISO 4, ISO 6, ISO 11, ISO 15, ISO 17, ISO 21, ISO 60, ISO 69, Win 3.0, MC Text, UCS-2, PC-864, Arabic-8, Win Arabic, PC-866, PC-866U, ISO Cyrillic, Win Cyrillic, PC-851, Greek-8, ISO Greek, PC-8 Greek, Win Greek, PC-862, Hebrew-7, Hebrew-8, ISO Hebrew

Nimbus Mono Font

You can select the type of Nimbus Mono font.

Default: [Regular]

  • Regular

  • Dark

Ext. A4 Width

You can specify whether or not to extend the width of the printable area of A4 sheets by reducing side margins.

Default: [Off]

  • On

  • Off

Append CR to LF

You can specify whether or not to append a CR code to each LF code to print text data clearly.

Default: [Off]

  • On

  • Off

Resolution

You can specify the print resolution in dots per inch.

Default: [600dpi]

  • 300dpi

  • 600dpi