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Other Special Settings

Type button
Others button

The settings in this section are the less common settings that you would make when using this printer. However, if you wish to make the changes described below, you have to make them through the Remote Control Panel utility as the printer driver does not give you access to them.

Note:

Settings made in the Remote Control Panel utility are not effective until you click the Send button to download the information to the printer. If you share this printer, the settings shown on your Remote Control Panel utility may not reflect the actual settings in the printer as they may have been changed by other users. Even if the Remote Control Panel Utility already shows your desired setting, always click Send to ensure that you can print with that setting.

Type button

Clicking the Type button on the Remote Control Panel screen opens the following dialog box:

Note:

The Type button and dialog box are available in LaserJet4 mode only.

Typeface

Allows you to specify the typeface by font.

Pitch

Allows you to specify the pitch for fixed pitch fonts. The range of pitch is 0.44 to 99.99.

Symbol Set

Allows you to choose which symbol set to use. If the typeface you selected is not available for the symbol set you select, the typeface is replaced with the currently selected symbol set. The following symbol sets are available:

Note:

The following symbol sets cannot be selected with the Swiss 721 SWM and Dutch 801 SWM fonts: PsMath, MsPublishing, VeMath, Math-8, and PiFont.

The characters 9Bh to 9Fh in the VeInternational and VeUS symbol sets cannot be printed when either the Swiss 721 SWM or Dutch 801 SWM font is selected.

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Others button

Clicking the Others button brings up the Others dialog box. The actual dialog box that appears depends on the emulation mode.

Note:

This button is not available in LaserJet4 mode.

GL2 mode

The following dialog box appears when the emulation mode is GL2:

Note:

Use the Next and Prev buttons to access all available setting options.

GL-Mode

Allows you to select the mode, LJ4GL2 or GLlike. The default setting is LJ4GL2.

Scale

Allows you to switch between original-size or reduced-size printing. This setting also determines the reduction scale for reduced printing. You can print data originally created for the paper size selected in the Scale setting onto paper of the size selected in the Page Size setting. For example, you can scale an A3 size page to an A4 size page.

Origin

Allows you to set the origin for the plotter-unit coordinate system to the lower left corner (Corner) or to the center of the hard-clip limit (Center).

Pen

Allows you to select the color of the printed characters. Pen0 is white, which means the background is printed instead of the character, like the caution and warning symbols in this manual. All others are black, like the characters in this sentence. (Pens 2-6 are different colors for color printers, and available only in GLlike mode.)

End

Allows you to choose the type of line ending. The default setting is Butt. See the illustrations below.

Join

Allows you to define how the ends of lines should be joined. The default setting is Mitered. See the illustrations below.

Pen0, Pen1, Pen2, Pen3, Pen4, Pen5, Pen6

Allows you to select the line width. You can select a value from 0.05 mm to 5.00 mm, in increments of 0.05 mm. Pen 3-6 are available only in GLlike mode.

ESCP2, FX, and I239X modes

The following dialog box appears when the emulation mode is ESCP2, FX, or I239X:

Note:

Use the Next and Prev buttons to access all available setting options.

Condensed (ESCP2, FX only)

Allows you to change character spacing. Condensed printing is useful for spreadsheets and other applications that need to fit a large amount of information on each line. However, 15-cpi (characters per inch) characters cannot be condensed.

T.Margin (ESCP2, FX only)

Allows you to specify the distance from the top of the sheet to the baseline of the first printable line. This is measured in 0.05 inch increments.

Text (ESCP2, FX only)

Allows you to set the page length in lines. The unit of measure for this option is a 1/6 inch line.

Note:

If you change the Orientation, Page Size, or T.Margin settings, the page length setting automatically returns to the default setting for each paper size.

Auto CR

Allows you to use the automatic carriage return option to perform a carriage-return line-feed (CR-LF) operation whenever the print position exceeds the right margin. If Auto CR is off, the printer does not print characters beyond the right margin, and it does not perform a linewrap until it receives a CR. Most application programs take care of this function.

Auto LF

Allows you to specify the line feed setting. If you set AutoLF to Off, the printer does not send an automatic line feed (LF) command with each carriage return (CR). When you set AutoLF to On, the printer adds a line feed to each carriage return it receives. If your text lines overprint each other, set AutoLF to On.

Bit Image

With Bit Image set to Dark or Light, your printer can correctly emulate the graphics densities set with the printer commands. If you select Dark, the bit image density is high. If you select Light, the bit image density is low.

With Bit Image set to BarCode, your printer converts bit images to barcodes by automatically filling in any vertical gaps between dots. This produces unbroken vertical lines that can be read by a barcode reader. BarCode is not available in I239X mode.

This mode reduces the size of the image being printed and may cause some distortion when printing bit-image graphics.

ZeroChar

This option allows you to specify whether the printer prints a slashed zero (Ø) or an unslashed zero (0). This feature is useful for clearly distinguishing between an uppercase letter O and zero when printing documents such as program lists.

Font

Allows you to select a font by typeface. The factory default font is Courier. After selecting the desired font, you can also adjust the character spacing and size of the font with the Pitch and Condensed options.

Pitch

You can select a character pitch of 10, 12, or 15 cpi (characters per inch), or choose proportional spacing.

Alt.Graphics (I239X only)

Turns the Alternate Graphics option on or off. The default setting is Off.

Character Set (I239X only)

Allows you to select the character table 1 or 2. When set to 1, the character codes 80h to 9Fh are specified as control codes 00h to 1Fh. When set to 2, the character codes 80h to 9Fh are specified as normal characters.

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