User guide

General Information About the LA600 MultiPrinter
15.1 Description of the LA600 MultiPrinter
• Can be connected at the same time to serial and parallel ports, and
switches automatically between them when data is received.
• Has a slot for optional cartridges for additional fonts or character sets.
15.2 DEC PPL2 Extensions and Exceptions
Note
References are made in this manual to Chapter 7 (Command
Dictionary) of the associated manual Digital ANSI-Compliant Printing
Protocol Level 2 Programming Reference Manual. For brevity in this
document, that chapter is called ‘‘Command Dictionary.’’
The implementation of DEC PPL2 on the LA600 MultiPrinter involves a
number of extensions and exceptions, which are summarized in Table 15–1 and
Table 15–2. For further information, refer to the Command Dictionary.
Table 15–1 DEC PPL2 Extensions
Extensions
Sixel graphics
Cyrillic character sets
Hebrew character sets
Katakana character set
Greek character sets
Turkish character sets
Metric line spacing
Color
Sheet feeder
Table 15–2 DEC PPL2 Exceptions
Exceptions
LA210, LA120, LA50 alias Device Attributes Report (DA) parameters
Control Representation Mode (CRM)
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