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PCL Mode

SuperScript PCL Control Panel

Saving Downloaded Fonts and Macros

Page Ejects (Form Feeds)


 Saving Downloaded Fonts and Macros

When the PCL interpreter turns itself off, any downloaded fonts or macros will be lost, just as if you had turned off a regular PCL printer.

You can preserve this information through the NEC SuperScript PCL Control Panel icon to keep the PCL interpreter active.

1.	From the Windows Program Manager, double-click on the NEC SSFW Console icon in the NEC SSFW Tools group.

2.	Select PCL Control Panel option from Settings menu or colick PCL Control Panel button in the Control Panel tab.

3.	Select Ok to close the SuperScript PCL Control Panel. The SuperScript PCL Loaded icon appears and remains on the desktop while the interpreter is active.

4.	Download macros or soft fonts in advance, if desired.

5.	Start or return to your application and print your document.

This will preserve your downloaded fonts and macros.  Also, if your next print job also uses PCL, it will take less time to print because the NEC SuperScript PCL Interpreter has already been loaded.  However, if you switch from PCL to GDI mode, this information will be lost, just as if you were changing printer languages in a conventional printer.


 Page Ejects (Form Feeds)

Some PCL files do not include a form feed (a command to eject a page) at the end of the file, so if you are printing to a conventional PCL printer, you have to press a form feed key to see your output. For example, if you use the DIR > LPT1: command in the MS-DOS box in Windows, the job sent to the PCL interpreter will not have a form feed at the end, so that the last page (or a single page) won't print.

If you turn the conventional printer off, the last page is lost. Unlike a conventional PCL printer, when the NEC SuperScript PCL Interpreter closes, it will print the last page automatically.

However, if you load the NEC SuperScript PCL Interpreter by double clicking on the PCL Control Panel icon before printing, then you will have control over whether the page will be printed. The PCL Control Panel provides a form feed button you can use to print the page.  Clicking Form Feed on the Control Panel tool bar ejects the retained page (just like the form feed key on a conventional PCL printer).

Selecting the Reset button deletes any print data currently retained in memory and resets the printer to the current default settings.

Related Topics:

Form Feed

Auto Form Feed


 SuperScript PCL Control Panel

Use the NEC SuperScript PCL Control Panel to control printer default settings in PCL Mode. These settings are the defaults for the PCL interpreter. In most cases your application changes the settings to those of the document you are printing. However, in some situations, such as printing e-mail or database documents, you may need to change the default settings. If you modify the settings, click the Reset button to enable your changes.

The following figure shows the dialog box.

Related Topics:

Form Feed

Reset

Help

Paper Source

Paper Size

Orientation/Copies

Default Font

Margins

Auto Form Feed

Buttons

See Also:

Selecting Print Modes

Printer Status Display

Technical Support


 Form Feed

Select Form Feed to print any data in the PCL Interpreter memory. If no data exists, a blank page feeds through the printer if the SuperScript PCL Interpreter is loaded. Pressing Alt f also performs a form feed.

Related Topics:

Page Ejects (Form Feeds)

Auto Form Feed


 Reset

Press Reset to clear the current print job from the SuperScript PCL Interpreter. Pressing Alt r also resets the printer.

The reset function will cause any changes made in the PCL Control Panel to take effect with the next print job. It also clears any data waiting to be printed.


 Help

Press Help to access PCL Mode help. Help provides explanations of each PCL mode dialog box option.


 Paper Source

Use the drop down menu in Paper Source to select the SuperScript 610 plus paper source. The selection listed in the menu box is the currently installed source.

If you change the paper source, click the drop down to select the source you have on the printer.

Confirm the selection by pressing the OK button.


 Paper Size

Use the Paper Size radio buttons to toggle between paper sheets and envelopes depending on your current PCL mode print job.

For paper sheets, load the paper you want to use into the printer.

Click on the paper sheet radio button and press the drop down arrow. You will see the following choices:

Select the corresponding sheet size from the list of paper sizes and click on it.

For envelopes, load the envelopes you want to use into the printer.

Click on the envelope radio button, then select the corresponding envelope size from the list of envelope sizes shown in the drop down box


 Orientation/Copies

Orentation

Use the portrait or landscape orientation radio buttons to switch orientation print modes. The following figures show the paper sheet graphic indicates how your print material appears after printing in each orientation.

Copies

Select the number of copies by using the arrow buttons or highlight the current value and key in a new value.


 Default Font

The Default Font selections box lets you change to any of the resident fonts and typestyles. Click the arrow buttons to select font, symbol set, and point size. For style, click in the check box for either bold or italic type.


 Margins

Margins are based on the printable area of the page. Thus, if the top and left margins are set to zero, the first character prints in the upper left-most position on the page without being clipped off.

Use the Margins box to set values for the top, bottom, left and right margins. Set values by using the arrow buttons or highlighting the current value and typing a new value. Values can be displayed in inches or millimeters as shown in the following figures.


 Auto Form Feed

Auto Form Feed will provide a form feed at the end of print files if the form feed is not present.

Related Topics:

Page Ejects (Form Feeds)

Form Feed


 Buttons

The NEC SuperScript PCL dialog box provides the following control buttons:

·	OK Button ¾ Saves all current settings shown in the dialog box.

·	Cancel Button ¾ Closes the dialog box without saving any changes you may have made to dialog box parameters.

·	Defaults ¾ Restores the default PCL settings.

·	About Button ¾ Opens the NEC SuperScript PCL About Box. The About Box provides information on software version level and copyright information.