Specifications

Revision C 16/01/96
Chapter 2 "PCL" - 71
Set area fill identity
Esc*c#G (27)(42)(99)#(71) <1Bh><2Ah><63h>#<47h>
• 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
# = 1 # = 2 # = 3
# = 4 # = 5 # = 6
Fill patterns
User-defined pattern command
Esc*c#W [ data ] (27)(42)(99)#(87) <1Bh><2Ah><63h>#<57h>
• # 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 LSB
0 - 1 Format (0) Continuation (0)
2 - 3 Pixel Encoding (1) Reserved (0)
4 - 5 Height in Pixels
6 - 7 Width in Pixels
8 - Pattern Image