1. Device Control Command Set
About Device Control Command Set
Device Control commands control basic device operations, error reporting and recovery, and the
construction of logical pages on the physical medium.
Before the host program sends the Begin Page command to begin defining a page to be printed, it
should establish the printing environment in which the page is to be printed.
The following Device Control commands are described in this section:
• page 10 "Acknowledgement Reply"
• page 13 "Activate Resource"
• page 22 "Begin Page"
• page 23 "Deactivate Font"
• page 26 "End"
• page 27 "End Page"
• page 28 "Load Copy Control"
• page 35 "Load Font Equivalence"
• page 39 "Logical Page Descriptor"
• page 44 "Logical Page Position"
• page 46 "Presentation Fidelity Control"
• page 48 "Sense Type and Model"
• page 62 "Execute Order Any State (XOA)"
• page 62 "XOA Mark Form"
• page 62 "XOA Exception Handling Control"
• page 69 "Execute Order Home State (XOH)"
• page 69 "XOH Obtain Printer Characteristics"
• page 98 "XOH Select Input Media Source"
• page 100 "XOH Set Media Origin"
• page 101 "XOH Set Media Size"
• page 102 "XOH Page Counter Control"
• page 102 "XOH Define Group Boundary"
• page 105 "XOH Specify Group Operation"
• "XOA-RRL Replies for Font Character Sets", IPDS Technical Reference 1
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