HP PCL/PJL reference - Printer Job Language Technical Reference Manual

EN Job Separation Commands 5-5

JOB commands can be nested. For example, a spooling application

can send a PJL job that uses the JOB command to another spooler

that encapsulates the spooled job with another JOB/EOJ command

pair. When this is done, note that the job name from the outer JOB

command is cleared or overwritten by the inner command.

Example: Using the JOB Command to Print

Selected Pages

You can use the JOB command with the START and END options to

print selected pages of a job. The entire job must be sent to the

printer and formatted, but the printer does not begin printing until the

page indicated in the START option.

Note If there is a need to print more than one copy of each page, send the

job multiple times using the START and END options to print collated

copies. Using the SET command or a printer language “number of

copies” command to print multiple copies of selected pages causes

unexpected results, because the printer counts physical pages, not

multi-copy collated pages.

In this example, the JOB command:

• Informs the printer of the beginning of a print job.

• Names the print job “Jim's Job.”

• Instructs the printer to begin printing on page three of the job.

(Since the END option is missing, the job prints from page

three through the end of the job.)

Note that the name option for the JOB and EOJ commands need not

be the same. You may use different names for each.

@PJL JOB NAME = "Jim's Job" START = 3 <CR><LF>

@PJL ENTER LANGUAGE = PCL <CR><LF>

<ESC>E . . . . PCL Job . . . . <ESC>E

~<ESC>%-12345X@PJL <CR><LF>

@PJL EOJ NAME = "End of Jim's Job" <CR><LF>

<ESC>%-12345X