Np (Number Of Pens) Command; Cr (Color Range) Command - Brother HL Series Technical Reference Manual

• PC [pen;]: sets the pen to the default color.
Number of pens in palette
2 ("NP 2;")
4 ("NP 4;")
8 ("NP 8;")
** If the number of pens in the palette is over 8, the color is set to black.
6.3.

NP (Number of Pens) Command

Command
NP [n;]
NP [;]
Range = 2 ~ 32768
Default value = 8
• This command makes the palette the specified size after the Initialize Set Instruction command or Set PCL
Color Setting command is executed.
• The n value represents the palette number with the value of 2
n
of 2 , the next value, 2
• When a value over 257 is specified, 256 is selected.
• When a value less than 2 is specified, it is ignored.
• The specified palette can be selected by the Select Pen command. When the value specified by the Select
Pen command is bigger than the palette number specified by this command, the value of the remainder is
used.
6.4.

CR (Color Range) Command

Command
CR [....]
Range = - 32768 ~ 32767
Default value is listed below;
Black reference
White reference
Black reference:
White reference:
• This command sets the range for specifying relative color data.
• The value specified by this command is reset to the default value by the CR [;]or IN [;] command.
Pen number
0
1
0
1
2
3
0
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
n+1
is selected.
R G B
0 0 0
255 255 255
specifies the black value (the highest level of density)
specifies the white value (the lowest level of density)
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Color
White
Black
White
Black
Red
Green
White
Black
Red
Green
Yellow
Blue
Magenta
Cyan
n
. When it cannot be indicated with the value
2009/06/29