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

11-16 Programming Tips for Using PJL EN

Jobs That Notify the User to Load Specific Forms or

Paper

This example displays a message to “LOAD FORM 1040” and takes

the printer off-line. When the form is loaded and the On Line or

Continue key is pressed, the form is printed.

@PJL JOB NAME = "Job #65432" <CR><LF>

@PJL OPMSG DISPLAY = "LOAD FORM 1040" <CR><LF>

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

<ESC>E ... PCL print data ... <ESC>E

~<ESC>%-12345X

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

@PJL EOJ NAME = "Job #65432" <CR><LF>

<ESC>%-12345X

Jobs That Control Printer Resources and Print

Selected Pages

The following job prints 1 copy of pages 5 through 8 of the print job.

The START command tells the printer to process pages in

non-printing mode until the specified page (in this case, page 5). The

END command specifies the last page to print. If the END command

is not included, the job prints from page 5 through the end of the

document.

If you need to print more than one copy of each page, send the job

multiple times using the START and END options to get collated

copies. Using the “@PJL SET COPIES = number of copies”

command to print multiple copies of a selected page causes

unexpected results because the printer counts physical pages, not

multi-copy collated pages.

@PJL COMMENT Printing selected pages <CR><LF>

@PJL JOB START = 5 END = 8 <CR><LF>

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

<ESC>E . . . PCL print job . . .<ESC>E

~<ESC>%-12345X

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

@PJL EOJ <CR><LF>

<ESC>%-12345X