Processing A Page - Printronix T5000R Series Programmer's Reference Manual

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Figure 1. State Transition

Processing a Page

Your printer can print page by page or it can behave as a line printer. This
section describes how the printer prints page by page. (The User's Manual
explains the two printing methods in more detail.)
Your IPDS-capable printer builds a page by gathering all the page descriptor
commands and data blocks that are specified in the data stream.
Page descriptor commands instruct the printer to create and position a logical
page, which rests within the perimeter of the physical page.
Page segment data is stored when the printer is in this
state. A page segment is a frequently accessed
resource; it can be a block of text, images, graphics, or
bar codes. Page segments can be a part of an overlay.
Some commands can be received in any state.
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