Brother HL-1660E User Manual

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2001/10/02 
CHAPTER 3 "PCL5C" - 17 
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PC [pen;]:  sets the pen to the default color. 
Number of pens in palette 
Pen number 
Color 
2 (“NP 2;”) 
White   
 
Black 
4 (“NP 4;”) 
White   
 
Black 
 
Red 
 
Green 
8 (“NP 8;”) 
White   
 
Black 
 
Red 
 
Green 
 
Yellow 
 
Blue 
 
Magenta   
 
Cyan 
** If the number of pens in the palette is over 8, the color is set to black. 
 
6.3. 
NP (Number of Pens) Command 
Command 
NP [n;] 
NP [;] 
Range = 2 ~ 32768 
Default value = 8 
• 
This command makes the palette the specified size after the Initialize Set Instruction command or Set PCL 
Color Setting command is executed. 
• 
The n value represents the palette number with the value of 2
n
.  When it cannot be indicated with the value 
of 2
n
, the next value, 2
n+1
 is selected. 
• 
When a value over 257 is specified, 256 is selected. 
• 
When a value less than 2 is specified, it is ignored. 
• 
The specified palette can be selected by the Select Pen command.  When the value specified by the Select 
Pen command is bigger than the palette number specified by this command, the value of the remainder is used. 
 
6.4. 
CR (Color Range) Command 
Command 
CR [....] 
Range = - 32768 ~ 32767 
Default value is listed below; 
 
Black reference 
White reference 
255 
255 
255 
 
Black reference: 
specifies the black value (the highest level of density) 
 
White reference: 
specifies the white value (the lowest level of density) 
• 
This command sets the range for specifying relative color data. 
• 
The value specified by this command is reset to the default value by the CR [;]or IN [;] command.