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PCL

Menu item
Description
Scale to Fit

    Off*

    On

Scale the page content to fit the selected paper size.
Font Source

    Resident*

    Disk

    Download

    Flash

    Font Card

    All

Select the source which contains the default font selection.
  • Disk and Flash appear only when a hard disk or an intelligent storage drive (ISD) that contains fonts is installed.
  • Download appears only if downloaded fonts exist in the printer memory.
  • Font Card appears only when an ISD is installed.
Font Name
[List of available fonts] (Courier*)
Select a font from the specified font source.
Symbol Set
[List of available symbol set] (10U PC‑8*)
Specify the symbol set for each font name.
A symbol set is a set of alphabetic and numeric characters, punctuation, and special symbols. Symbol sets support the different languages or specific programs such as math symbols for scientific text.
Pitch
0.08–100.00 (10.00*)
Specify the pitch for fixed or monospaced fonts.
Pitch refers to the number of fixed‑space characters in a horizontal inch of type.
Orientation

    Portrait*

    Landscape

    Reverse Portrait

    Reverse Landscape

Specify the orientation of text and graphics on the page.
Lines per Page
1–255
Specify the number of lines of text for each page printed through the PCL® data stream.
  • This menu item activates vertical escapement that causes the selected number of requested lines to print between the default margins of the page.
  • 60 is the U.S. factory default setting. 64 is the international factory default setting.
PCL5 Minimum Line Width
1–30 (2*)
Set the initial minimum stroke width.
PCLXL Minimum Line Width
1–30 (2*)
A4 Width

    198 mm*

    203 mm

Set the width of the logical page on A4‑size paper.
Logical page is the space on the physical page where data is printed.
Auto CR after LF

    On

    Off*

Set the printer to perform a carriage return after a line feed control command.
Carriage return is a mechanism that commands the printer to move the position of the cursor to the first position on the same line.
Auto LF after CR

    On

    Off*

Set the printer to perform a line feed after a carriage return control command.
Tray Renumber

    Assign MP Feeder

    Assign Tray [x]

    Assign Manual Paper

    Assign Manual Envelope

Configure the printer to work with a different print driver or custom application that uses a different set of source assignments to request a given paper source.
Choose from the following options:

    Off*—The printer uses the factory default paper source assignments.

    None—The paper source ignores the Select Paper Feed command.

    0–199—Select a numeric value to assign a custom value to a paper source.

Tray Renumber
View Factory Defaults
Show the factory default value assigned for each paper source.
Tray Renumber
Restore Defaults
Restore the tray renumber values to their factory defaults.
Print Timeout

    Disabled

    Enabled* (90 seconds)

Set the printer to end a print job after it has been idle for the specified amount of time.
Print Timeout Time appears only when Print Timeout is enabled.
Print Timeout Time

    1-255 (90*)

An asterisk (*) next to a value indicates the factory default setting.

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