Printing CAD Drawings
HP-GL/2 Printing
This printer supports the original Canon GARO printer control language as well as HP-GL/2 and HP
RTL(*1) emulation.(*2) When printing from applications that support HP-GL/2 output, specify HP-GL/2 in
the application's plotter output settings.
Note
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For instructions on conguring these settings, refer to the software documentation.
The printer automatically switches to the corresponding processing depending on whether a GARO,
HP-GL/2, or HP RTL job is received. Congure the optional settings for HP-GL/2 emulation on the printer
control panel. (→P.49)
This printer can emulate the following printers using HP-GL/2 emulation.
Emulated Printers
Canon
Hewlett-Packard
*1: HP-GL/2: Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language 2; HP RTL: Hewlett-Packard Raster Transfer Language
*2: It may not be possible to print jobs with excessively large amounts of data correctly.
172 Working With Various Print Jobs
iPF500, iPF600, iPF700, iPF510, iPF610, iPF710, iPF605, iPF720, iPF810
and iPF820
Designjet 500, Designjet 800 and Designjet 1000