Page device parameters, Postscript – Lexmark C762 User Manual

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Page Device Parameters

In addition to the page device parameters described in Section 4.11 of the

PostScript

Language Reference Manual (Third Edition)

by Adobe Systems, Inc., the following

page device parameters are used by

setpagedevice

and

currentpagedevice.

Certain parameters, such as

Policies

,

Priority

, and

ManualFeed

are listed here since

more information about the parameters is given in Table 4-8 than in the

PostScript

Language Reference Manual (Third Edition)

by Adobe Systems, Inc.

To determine which parameters and default values your printer supports, see
Table C-2 on page C-4.

Table 4-8: Page Device Parameters

Key

Type

Definition

BeginPage

procedure

Executes at the beginning of each page and returns an integer which indicates
how many times showpage has been invoked.

Collate

boolean

Indicates if the printer is set to collate multi-copy print jobs.

If a print job consists of three pages and two copies are requested, then the
collated output is 1, 2, 3, 1, 2, 3. The non-collated output is 1, 1, 2, 2, 3, 3.

DeferredMediaSelection

boolean

Determines if the printer uses the printer’s own internal algorithms or Adobe
PostScript algorithms to select print media. The following values are supported:

True

Uses the printer’s algorithms

False

Uses Adobe PostScript algorithms (default)

DeviceRenderingInfo

dictionary

Specifies the following unique printer rendering parameters:

Screening

,

TonerSaver

,

PictureGrade

,

ImageEnhancement

,

PrintDarkness

,

AutoMediaType

,

EdgeToEdge

,

DefaultPoliciesPageSize

,

SubstituteSize

,

Type

,

ColorCorrection

,

ImageBrightness

,

ImageContrast

, and

PrintQuality

.

Screening

controls which halftone dictionary is installed at the beginning of each

print job. The value is set at the start of a job according to the print quality settings
selected from the printer operator panel.

The following names are valid:

ColorGrade™

600 dpi printing

PictureGrade

300 dpi, 600 dpi, or 1200 dpi printing with PictureGrade On

IET

1200 Image Quality printing or 2400 Print Quality

IETImagesOnly

1200 Image Quality printing for images; 600 dpi printing for
text and graphics or maps to IET and sets Print Quality to
either 1200 Image Quality or 2400 Print Quality

IETPictureGrade 1200 Image Quality printing with PictureGrade On
None

300 dpi or 600 dpi printing with PictureGrade Off

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