The 4213 Laser Printer In The Postscript Language Mode A4; Postscript, A Page Description Language A4; Letting Your Application Do The Work - Xerox 4213 User Manual

The 4213 laser printer in PostScript language mode
PostScript, a page description language

Letting your application do the work

XEROX 4213 LASER PRINTER USER GUIDE
The following is a list of what the 4213 laser printer can do in the
PostScript language mode:
Create and position various shapes such as straight lines,
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dashed lines, arcs, and curves.
Combine text and graphics.
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images.
Print images that have been scanned from photographs or
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created synthetically.
Produce documents that contain multiple typeface changes
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and different symbol sets.
PostScript is known as a page description language (PDL), which
is a programming language designed specifically to communicate
the description of practically any printable document from a
computer to a printer that can interpret the programming code
and print the document.
In most cases, there is no need to write PostScript programmes
for describing page structure, fonts and graphics.
language code is generated automatically by the application
software you are using.
publishing, spreadsheet and computer graphics programmes are
designed to work with printers, like the 4213 laser printer, that
"speak" page description languages like PostScript.
application programme to lay out a page, set margins, choose a
typeface, print text and generate line art, half-tones and grey-
scaling on the 4213 laser printer. You can take advantage of the
wealth of features available in PostScript language mode without
having to learn the page description language.
POSTSCRIPT EMULATION
Rotate and clip words and
The PostScript
Most word processing, desktop
Use your
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