Fill Patterns; Set Area Fill Identity; User-Defined Pattern Command - Brother HL-Series Technical Reference Manual

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Set area fill identity

Esc*c#G
• This command sets the pattern ID of a shading tone, a fill pattern, or a user-defined pattern for subsequent
selection with the Set Pattern Type command.
• # 1 ~ 100 specify the percentage of a gray scale.
• # 1 ~ 6 select a fill pattern.
• # 1 ~ 32767 select a user-defined pattern.
• You can specify a gray scale tone from 1 to 100. To use the specified tone for shading you must then select one
of the two gray scale pattern options with the Set Pattern Type command.
For example

User-defined pattern command

Esc*c#W [ data ]
• # should be in the range 0 ~ 32767.
• # stands for the number of pattern data bytes.
• User defined patterns can be defined by binary data or an 8 byte pattern descriptor.
• Here are the formats for the pattern descriptor.
< For 300 dpi >
MSB
0 - 1
2 - 3
4 - 5
6 - 7
8 -
(27)(42)(99)#(71)

Fill patterns

# = 1 # = 2
# = 4 # = 5
(27)(42)(99)#(87)
Format (0)
Pixel Encoding (1)
Height in Pixels
Width in Pixels
Pattern Image
Chapter 2 "PCL" - 71
<1Bh><2Ah><63h>#<47h>
# = 3
# = 6
<1Bh><2Ah><63h>#<57h>
Continuation (0)
Reserved (0)
LSB