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Using Test Prints (continued)
PRINTER PEN SETTINGS Test Print
Eight user defined pen palettes, and one factory default (read only) pen
palette, are stored within the printer's Controller in support of CGM, CalComp
906/907, VCGL (color feature only), VDS, HP-GL/HP-GL/2 data formats.
Stored pen palettes may be selected to support any of the above-listed
emulations. For the XES Synergix 8825/8830/8850 printers, you select an
emulation-supporting palette through the Printer Control Panel’s “Setup
Printer” / “Emulations” menus. For the XES Synergix 8855 printer and the
X2-TECH printer, you select an emulation-supporting palette using the
EMULATIONS group of the Printer Defaults Side menu of the Web PMT.
Within each of the 8 user-defined pen palettes there are 256 pens whose line
drawing attributes can be modified.
Shown in a horizontal line at the top of the Printer Pen Settings Test Print are
50 available pen patterns that are resident within the printer and cannot be
changed by the user. The range of patterns runs from 0 (which draws a solid
black line) to 49 (which draws a line comprised of a pattern to the immediate
right of the “smiley face” (#48) pattern). Any of these patterns can be applied
to any of the 256 pens of each pen palette.
The next horizontal line of blank boxes (50 to 64) represents 15 available
spots for patterns defined by the user, enabling custom-created patterns to
be applied to any of the 256 pens of each pen palette.
For each numbered pen (0 to 255) of each palette, there are four attributes
that can be set by the user. These attributes are
Width
(of line) in mm,
Pattern
(of line),
Color
(of line), and
Overrides
. Width specifies the width of
the drawn line. Pattern applies a pattern to the drawn line (specified from the
range of printer-resident or user-defined patterns). Color varies the grayscale
appearance of the drawn line since the proportional mixing of Red (R), Green
(G), and Blue (B) on a black and white printer results in various shades of
gray. Overrides, for Width (W), Pattern (P), and Color (C) attributes for each
pen, are factory set to the default value of zero (0), indicating that if the
palette is applied to the print job, the attributes for each pen–with override set
to zero–will be utilized.
Depending upon whether the palette source parameter is set to JOB or to
PRINTER at the Printer Control Panel (through “Setup Printer” /
“Emulations”), or by using the Web Printer Manager Tool at the remote
desktop, the pen palette associated with a desktop-submitted print job or the
pen palette stored within the printer will be used.
The following figure shows the Printer Pen Settings Test Print for Pen Palette
1.
