Xerox Escape Sequence
{{Short description|Printer page description language}}
Xerox Escape Sequence or XES is a page description language (PDL) developed by Xerox corporation and introduced with their 2700 laser printers in 1982. XES offers similar capabilities to Hewlett-Packard's Printer Command Language (PCL), which first appeared in 1984. XES is supported by most Xerox laser printers including the 2700. 3700, 4011, 4030, 4045, 4197, 4213, 4235, and 4700.{{cite web|title=Xerox XES/UDK Printers|url=http://www.ihs-systems.com/xerox_xes-udk_printers.html|work=IHS Systems Corp.|access-date=Nov 6, 2013}}
XES is sometimes known as UDK, from User Defined Key, the character which introduces the printer command. Commands are normally introduced by the escape character (ESC - ASCII '1B'x, EBCDIC '27'x ). This character may be changed in the data stream by the command =UDK=c, where c is the value to be used going forward. c may be any character except U, D, K, space, or 0 through 9.{{cite book |title=((4045 Laser CP Reference Manual)) |date=August 1985 |publisher=Xerox Corporation |page=A-6 |url=http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/xerox/4045/600P87279_4045_Laser_CP_Reference_Manual_198508.pdf |access-date=May 18, 2025}}
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| Fonts | Load or unload a font change font for subsequent text. Only raster fonts are supported. |
| Text placement | Place text in absolute position on page or relative to current position justify or center text print subscript, superscript, bold, underscore, or overstrike specify line spacing, horizontal tab vertical tab |
| Line drawing | draw a line between two positions on the page |
| Page formatting | Specify page margins set and clear horizontal tabs |
| Page merge | Store or unload a page of data available to merge with subsequent pages |
| Graphics | A graphic window is a rectangular area on a page in which a raster graphic image may be printed. The image is transmitted, in sixel encoding, following with the command, and may be magnified 1, 2, or 4 times. A graphic window may be created and stored, and called out for printing as required, for example to print a logo on each page. |
| Miscellaneous | Print current page specify language or use customized character mapping table reset printer data monitor mode (print datastream in hexadecimal) set or clear positions for simulated carriage control tape |
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External links
- [http://www.support.xerox.com/support/4213-micr-mrp/file-redirect/engb.html?fileLanguage=en_GB&contentId=43660 Xerox 4213 Laser Printer Programmer Reference]
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