User`s guide

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PCL 5 - With this setting, the printer recognizes only the
PCL 5 command set for defining a page, selecting fonts, etc.
Binary Communications Protocol (BCP) PostScript - This
setting allows any of the 256 possible 8-bit values to be
transmitted as data and allows certain characters to also
specify control functions, such as:
• End of job
• Status (e.g., printer idle)
• Abort (e.g., cancel)
• Xon
• Xoff
• Ctrl A (indicates control functions are to be interpreted
as data)
• Two control functions are reserved
This allows faster processing of data and is available only if
your application or host software supports binary PostScript.
When in BCP PostScript mode, the host and all applications
must be using binary communications protocol.
Hex Dump Mode - This setting is a data analysis tool that
diagnoses application software related problems and
communications problems.
Tagged Binary Communications Protocol PostScript (TBCP
PS) - Allows individual applications to enable or disable
binary communications on a per job basis with begin and end
protocol functions. All 256 characters can be interpreted as
data and some can also be interpreted as control functions.
TBCP PostScript has the same control functions as BCP
PostScript plus the begin and end protocol functions.
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