1. COMMAND LIST. Brother HL-1050, HL-1250, HL-1070, HL-1270N, HL-2060, HL-2400C Series, HL-P2500, HL-1660e Series

Control Codes

Escape sequences

Esc&k#G

Esc&s#C

EscY

EscZ

Line termination

End-of-line wrap

Display function mode

Display function mode

Environments

The Page

Esc&u#D

Esc&a#L

Esc&a#M

Esc9

Esc&l#E

Esc&l#C

Esc&k#H

Esc&l#D

Esc&l#F

Esc&l#P

Esc&l#L

Esc&a#R

Esc*p#Y

Esc&a#V

Esc&a#C

Esc*p#X

Esc&a#H

Esc&f#S

Esc=

Esc&l#O

Esc&a#P

Job Control

Esc&l#A

Esc&l#G

Esc&l#H

Esc&l#U

Esc&l#Z

Esc&l#S

Esc&a#G

Esc&l1T

EscE

EscCR FD

EscCR!#R

Escz

Esc%-12345X

EscCR##

Page size

Output tray

Paper source

Left long-edge offset registration

Top offset registration

Simplex/duplex printing (For HL-1660e/2060)

Paper side selection

Job separation command

Reset

Reset to factory default settings

Reset to user settings

Printer self test

Exit current emulation mode

Change emulation mode

Unit of measure

Setting the left and right margins

Setting the left and right margins

Resetting the horizontal margins

Setting the top margin

Setting the vertical motion index (VMI)

Setting the horizontal motion index (HMI)

Setting line spacing

Text length

Page length

Perforation skip

Vertical cursor positioning -rows

Vertical cursor positioning - units

Vertical cursor positioning - decipoints

Horizontal cursor positioning - columns

Horizontal cursor positioning - units

Horizontal cursor positioning - decipoints

Using the cursor position stack

Half line feed

Logical page orientation

Text direction

Using fonts

Esc(3@, Esc)3@ Selecting the default fonts

SI, SO Switching between the primary and secondary font

Esc*c#R

Esc(f#W

Symbol set ID code command

Define symbol set

Esc*c#S Symbol set control command

Esc(symbol set ID Select the symbol set

Esc(s#C, Esc)s#C Select the symbol set

Esc(s#P, Esc)s#P Selecting the type of character spacing

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Macros

Esc&f#Y

Esc&f0X

Esc&f1X

Esc&f2X

Esc&f3X

Esc&f4X

Esc&f5X

Esc&f6X

Esc&f7X

Esc&f8X

Esc&f9X

Esc&f10X

Esc&f1030X

Esc&f1036X

Esc&f1038X

Esc(s#H, Esc)s#H Selecting the pitch

Esc(s#V, Esc)s#V Selecting the height

EscCR!#H, EscCR!#V Scaling the scalable fonts vertically or horizontally

Esc(s#S, Esc)s#S Selecting the style

Esc(s#B, Esc)s#B Selecting the stroke weight

Esc(s#T, Esc)s#T Selecting the typeface

Esc&p#X Transparent print data

Esc&d#D, Esc&d@ Underlining text

Esc&*c#D

Esc*c#F

Esc(#X, Esc)#X

Esc)s#W

Esc*c#E

Esc(s#W

Font ID

Operations on downloaded fonts

Selecting a downloaded font

Sending the font descriptor

Sending a character code

Sending a character descriptor and data

Using graphics

Esc*b#M

Esc*r#A

Esc*b#W

Esc*b#C

Esc*rB

Esc*rC

Esc*b##W

Esc%#B

Esc*c0T

Esc*c#Y

Esc*c#X

Esc*c#L

Esc*c#K

Esc*v#N

Esc*v#O

Esc*c#G

Esc*c#W

Set source transparency

Set pattern transparency

Set area fill identity

User-defined pattern command

Esc*p#R

Esc*c#Q

Set pattern reference point

User-defined pattern control

Esc*v#T Set pattern type

Esc*c#A, Esc*c#H Set rectangle width

Esc*c#B, Esc*c#V Set rectangle height

Esc*c#P Draw filled rectangle

Esc*t#R

EscCR ##

Set raster resolution

Set high resolution control

Esc*r#F

Esc*r#T

Esc*r#S

Esc*b#Y

Set raster image orientation

Set raster area height

Set raster area width set raster y-offset

Set compression mode

Start raster transfer

Send raster data

Compress transfer graphics

End raster transfer

End raster transfer

Horizontal 1200-dpi image format mode (Raster Graphic Mode 1027)

Enter HP-GL/2 mode

Set picture frame anchor point

Set picture frame vertical size

Set picture frame horizontal size

Specify vertical plot size

Specify horizontal plot size

Macro ID

Start macro definition

End macro definition

Execute macro

Call macro

Enable macro for overlay

Disable macro for overlay

Delete all macros

Delete all temporary macros

Delete macro

Make macro temporary

Make macro permanent

Delete all macros from PCMCIA memory card

Delete macro from PCMCIA memory card

Save macro into PCMCIA memory card

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EscCR!#E

Esc&b#W

EscCR!1234#M

Execute data

AppleTalk configuration

MIO video I/O port control

Status Readback

Esc*s#T

Esc*s#U

Esc*s#I

Esc*s1M

Esc&r#F

Esc*s#X

Set status readback location type

Set status readback location unit

Inquire status readback entity

Free space command

Flush all pages command

Echo command

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