Automatic Emulation Sensing; General Information On Emulation; Line Printer Emulation (Mode 0) - Kyocera TASKalfa 3051ci Technical Reference Manual

Automatic emulation sensing

General Information on Emulation

Line Printer Emulation (Mode 0)

In printing systems that permit the selection of KPDL emulation, the automatic emula-
tion sensing (AES) can be activated so that print jobs using other emulations will auto-
matically print in the correct emulation. Refer to the AES related FRPO command
parameters, P4 and P5, in Interface-independent Parameters on page 5 in Chapter 6.
The printing system's capability for supporting seven printer emulations is remarkably
complete; although a few differences are noteworthy:
• The printing system cannot print on paper larger than the size of its cassette. In par-
ticular, it cannot print on continuous forms.
• The 600 dpi and 1200 dpi resolutions are supported only with HP LaserJet and KPDL
emulations. Even for the models with 600 dpi and 1200 dpi support, printing occurs
only with the 300 dpi resolution in Line Printer, IBM Proprinter, Diablo, and Epson
emulation modes.
• The printing system's fonts do not duplicate the appearance of the fonts of the emu-
lated printers exactly. For a fixed font, the printing system provides the same charac-
ter spacing as the printer under emulation. This is not always true for proportional
spacing. When proportional spacing is used, your word processing software, using an
HP LaserJet driver, may be unable to properly right justify proportional text.
• The printing system supports scalable (outline) fonts. With the assistance of PRE-
SCRIBE commands, the scalable fonts are available for printing in any one of the
emulation modes. (See Chapter 4 for details.)
• The graphics commands which create a path are also supported in all emulation
modes. Instructions on how to create a path are described in Chapter 2.
• In all emulations, the printing system's margins differ slightly between emulations.
The margins can be adjusted with PRESCRIBE margin commands. However, they
cannot be moved outside the paper edge limits.
• PRESCRIBE commands can also be used for supplementary font control. Examples
are given in each section (FONT, SFNT, etc.).
To set the power-up emulation for Line Printer, send the printing system the following
PRESCRIBE command sequence:
!R! FRPO P1, 0 ; FRPO P3, 1; FRPO U6, 1; EXIT;
The Line Printer character set options are the same as for the IBM emulation. FRPO U6,
1 selects the full IBM US ASCII character set, which includes many international char-
acters, graphic symbols, and mathematical symbols in addition to standard ASCII. If you
leave the U6 parameter at its 0 factory setting, you will get a subset excluding some
international characters and symbols. The other options are US Legal (FRPO U6, 9;) and
the Danish character set (FRPO U6, 4;). See Section for details.
The line printer emulation is virtually featureless. It uses only the control codes listed
below.
Line Printer Emulation (Mode 0)
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