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PCL Settings

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Specify the default values for PCL printing.

This machine operates according to these settings unless the printer driver specifies the print settings.

Settings

Description

[Select Color]

Select colors for printing.

  • [Auto Color]: The color mode is automatically selected according to the original color.

  • [Gray Scale]: The original is printed in black and white regardless of whether the original is in color or in black and white.

  • [2 Color]: The original is printed in the two specified colors. The gray areas and color areas of a color original are printed using combinations of the colors specified in [2 Color].

[Auto Color] is specified by default.

[Font Settings]

Select Resident Font or Download Font to specify the font to be used.

  • [Resident Font]: Select a font from those installed on this machine.

  • [Download Font]: Select a font from those downloaded to this machine. This option is displayed when a download font exists.

In [Current Font], you can view the current setting.

[Courier] is specified by default.

[Symbol Set]

Select the font symbol set to be used.

The default values vary depending on the area you are in.

[Font Size]

Specify the default font size value.

  • [Scalable Font]: Enter the font size (in points) for scalable fonts (with different widths for each character).
    [12.00 Point] is specified by default.

  • [Bitmap Font]: Enter the font width (in pitches) for bitmap fonts (with the same width for each character).
    [10.00 Pitch] is specified by default.

[Line/Page]

Enter the number of lines of text data to be printed on one page.

The default values vary depending on the area you are in.

[Thin Line]

Select this option to prevent thin lines from disappearing in reduced-size printing.

This is effective for thin lines such as table borders created in Excel, but not for thin lines used in illustrations.

[ON] is specified by default.

[CR/LF Mapping]

Select whether to replace the line feed codes when printing text data. When you want to replace the line feed codes, select the replacement method.

[No] is specified by default.

[Bar Code Font Settings]

Configure settings for the bar code font.

  • [Line Width]: Specify the line width of the bar code font. [00] is specified by default.

  • [Space Width]: Specify the space width of the bar code font. [00] is specified by default.

To use this function, the optional Extension Memory and i-Option LK-106 are required.

[Auto Trapping]

Select whether to superimpose neighboring colors to print so as to prevent white space being generated around a picture.

Selecting [ON] prevents the generation of white lines at the boundaries of colors in graphs or figures.

[OFF] is specified by default.