Automatic Interface Selection; Five emulation modes; Automatic Emulation Selection- Page 24

ABOUT THIS PRINTER   

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Automatic Interface Selection

This printer can automatically select the bi-directional parallel, USB or Ethernet 10/100BASE-TX 
interface, depending on the interface port through which it receives data. With this feature, you can 
connect the printer to more than one computer. See 

Automatic Interface Selection

 on page 2-20.

Five emulation modes

This printer can emulate PCL 5C and PCL 6 language printers, Brother BR-Script3 printers, HP-GL 
plotter as well as EPSON FX-850 and IBM Proprinter XL printers (for monochrome printing only). You 
can print with all application programs that support one of these printers. See 

About emulation modes

on page 3-21. 

Automatic Emulation Selection

This printer can automatically select the printer emulation mode, depending on the print commands it 
receives from the computer software. With this feature, many users can share the printer on a network. 
See 

Automatic Emulation Selection

 on page 2-19. 

Data compression technology

This printer can internally compress the received graphics and font data in its memory so it can print 
larger graphics and more fonts without the need for additional memory. 

Fonts

This printer has 66 scalable and 12 bitmapped fonts. The fonts that can be used vary according to the 
selected emulation mode.

In PCL mode, you can also print the 13 kinds of bar codes listed below. In BR-Script mode, the printer 
has 35 scalable fonts. 

Bar code printing

This printer can print the following 13 types of bar codes: 

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Code 39

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Interleaved 2 of 5

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EAN-8

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EAN-13

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EAN- 128 

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Code 128

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UPC-A

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UPC-E

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Codabar

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FIM (US-PostNet)

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Post Net (US-PostNet)

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ISBN (EAN)

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ISBN (UPC-E)