Star Micronics 8 Series - Chapter 4: HP LaserJet II Commands; HP LaserJet II Commands

TheHewlett-PackardLaserJetseriesIIisanearlierkindoflaserprinterthan
yourStarLaserPrinter8.Youshouldhavenotroublerunningmostpopular
softwarepackagesinHPLaserJetIImode,asthoseprogramslikelycansend
LaserJet11commands.
BecausetheLaserJetII
is alaserprinter,though,itscommandscangiveyou
morecontroloveryourStarLaserPrinter8 thanis possiblewiththeother
built-incommandsets.Youwillprobablyusethisemulation’scommands
morethanthe others. Recognizingthat reality,we’veput moreexamples
intothischapter.
Wefollowthe samesequencein thischapteras wedid in Chapter2: first
some printer managementand page setup commands,then we’ll cover
commandsthatpoisethelaser“pen”overthepaper,nextwe’llpicka font,
andfinallywe’lllay downourwordsandpictures.
Attheendofthechapterwedescribehowtocreateanduseyourownfonts,
andalsohowto sav~timeby writingcommand
HP LASERJET II COMMANDS
What do LaserJet
II commands
macros.
look like?
The LaserJet11emulationmodeincludesa dozencommoncontrolcodes
(suchas<CR>forcarnagereturns)andsingle-characterEscapesequences
(such as cESD E for resettingthe printer).But all the other LaserJetII
emulationcommandsyoucan‘sendyourStarLaserPrinter8 looklikethis:
<ESC>cc n C
in whichthecc prefixis a symbolor two showingthegeneralcategoryof
commandsto whichthisonebelongs,n issomevariableyouwanttousein
thiscommand,andC is the specificcommandyouwantperformed.
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