Postscript Programming Guide - Ricoh USA

1 PostscriptProgrammingGuide 2007 Ricoh Corporation5 Dedrick PlaceWest Caldwell, NJ 07006 January 2007337943-005B 2007 Ricoh Corporation. All rights part of this document may be reproduced without the expressed permission of material in this document is for informational purposes and is subject to changewithout notice. Ricoh Corporation assumes no responsibility for errors or omissions in thisdocument. No liability is assumed for any damages resulting from the use of theinformation it and Postscript are registered trademarks of Adobe Systems Incorporated. PCL isthe trademark of Hewlett Packard. Ethernet is a trademark of Xerox XP is a trademark of Microsoft Corporation.

2 Digital Document Publisher andDDP and its associated logo mark are the trademarks of Ricoh Corporation. Ricoh andthe Ricoh trademark are registered trademarks of Ricoh , Ltd. All rights other terms and product names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of theirrespective owners and are hereby TO USERIn an effort to meet the demands of a rapidly changing technology, the manufacturer iscontinually developing new features and functions to meet changing printing or printerneeds. Please be sure to consult all manual updates or addenda when using thisproduct s document contains TrueType fonts from Monotype Imaging Inc. Reproduction ofthese fonts is software embedded in this product is based in part on the work of Independent software embedded in this product uses software by CMU.

3 Copyright 1988, 1989 byCarnegie Mellon University. All rights reserved. Permission to use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this software and its documentationfor any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that the avove copyrightnotice appears in all copies and that both the copyright notice and permission noticeappear in supporting documentation, and the name of CMU not be used in advertising orpublicity pertaining to distribution of the software without specific written prior software embedded in this product uses the software by Sam Leffler and (c) 1988-1997 Sam Leffler iRevisionsRevisionPage No. (Contents)DateAOriginal Release.

4 See ECO 2006 BGeneric Version; Add rev history page, copyright page updated. Page 1-6, in Tray Switch para, add "media weight, media color and leading edge"Page 1-7, Table for "Finisher Option", delete "Saddle Stitch" staple location and row for "Booklet Finisher and Publisher Finisher"Page 1-8, in Page Size table correct entries for the following: <WAS> 294> <IS> 297 3 places; in A4 tab row, <WAS> 215 <IS> 225 Page 1-9, in MediaColor table, delete entries for Color 2,3 Page 1-10, in MediaWeight table, change last row <WAS> "any paper weight" <IS> "20lb paper weight" January 2007iiiTable of ContentsChapter 1. Postscript Language Printer CommandsOverview ..1-1 Device Setup.

5 1-3 Page Device Parameters ..1-3 Printer ..1-3 Print Behavior With PJL Environment Variables ..1-6 TraySwitch ..1-7 InputAttributes ..1-7 InputTrayMask ..1-7 FoldType ..1-8 LeadingEdge ..1-8 MediaColor ..1-8 MediaPosition ..1-9 MediaType ..1-9 MediaWeight ..1-9 PageSize ..1-10 BestFit/Best Fit Mode ..1-11 OutputType ..1-12 OutputTrayMask ..1-12 Establishing Breaks Within a Job ..1-13 Interpreter Parameters ..1-14 User Parameters ..1-14 MaxFontItem ..1-14 System Parameters ..1-15 MaxDisplayList ..1-17 MaxFontCache ..1-17 MaxPermanentVM ..1-17 MaxRasterMemory ..1-17 MaxSourceList ..1-17 RamSize ..1-17 Product Strings ..1-18 Model Strings.

6 1-18 Device Parameters ..1-18 Device Parameters of Type /FileSystem ..1-19 Parameters for Disk ..1-19 Parameters for ROM ..1-21 Parameters for Fontset ..1-22 Parameters for Scsi ..1-23 Categories and Resource Instances ..1-23 Regular Resources ..1-24ivOutputDevice .. 1-25 Resources Whose Instances Are Implicit .. 1-26 Resources Used in Defining New Resource Categories .. 1-27 Compatibility .. 1-28 Level 1 Compatibility Operators .. 1-28 Compatibility Operator Descriptions .. 1-29 Paper Size Compatibility Operators .. 1-31 Paper Tray Compatibility Operators .. 1-31 Chapter 2. I/O SetupPostscript I/O Mode .. 2-1 TBCP .. 2-1 IndexPostScript Language Printer Commands1-1 Chapter 1 Postscript Language Printer CommandsOverviewPrinter commands for Adobe Postscript 3 provide a way for you to communicate with the printer to perform certain document provides Programming information about Adobe Postscript 3 and contains most of the Postscript commands.

7 It is written for people who are familiar with the command structure of the Postscript language. Most software applications do not require you to enter printer commands. However, if needed, you should refer to your software documentation for information about how to enter printer document also describes the particular Postscript interpreter parameters and resources implemented for the printer. The printer has features and capabilities that might not be present in other Postscript printers and that are not documented elsewhere. The following documents are generally relevant to the operation and Programming of Postscript printers. Postscript Language Reference Manual, Third Edition (Addison-Wesley), (hereafter referred to as the Reference Manual), describes the Programming language used to tell printers what and how to print.

8 It describes features of the language available in all Postscript interpreters. The Postscript Language Reference Manual Level 3 Version 3010 and 3011 Supplement (Adobe), (hereafter referred to as the Supplement), provides an up-to-date catalog of standard page device, user, system, and device parameters. It includes parameters that have changed since their original description in the Postscript Language Reference Manual, Third Edition. Postscript Language Tutorial and Cookbook (Addison-Wesley) contains explanatory and tutorial material to improve users understanding of the Postscript page description language. It introduces the Postscript language at a basic level. Postscript Language Program Design (Addison-Wesley) teaches Programming principles unique to the Postscript language with many usable samples.

9 It is for programmers interested in the effective and efficient design of Postscript language programs and printer drivers. Postscript Printer Description File Format Specification (Adobe) describes the Postscript Printer Description (or PPD) file format which provides information in a machine-readable form about printer-specific features and about the fonts built into the printer. Postscript Printer Description File for the Printer, available from the Adobe Developers Association, provides a device-independent way of invoking device-dependent features. It is needed by some drivers to offer complete device functionality to the Language Printer CommandsThe documentation assumes a knowledge of the following: How to reset the interpreter and page device parameters to their factory defaults.

10 How to physically connect a printer to a host computer or user system. How to use the communications protocols and emulators implemented in the printer. How to use the printer s control Language Printer Commands1-3 Device SetupThe page device parameters represent particular raster output device features or processing options; the values represent the current settings of those features or options. The setpagedevice operator is used to set the values of the page device parameters and the current pagedevice operator is used to get the current values of these parameters. For more information about how the setpagedevice operator is used to set up a raster output device, refer to the Reference Device ParametersPrinterThe following page device parameters are present in the printer.