Brother HL-1260E - Manual (Page 243)

APPENDICES
Appendix–49
CCITT G3/G4 and TIFF (original command)
One of the unique features of the PCL mode of this printer is it supports
CCITT G3/G4 type data compression and TIFF format.
■ CCITT G3/G4 (Raster Graphic Mode 1152)
The printer’s PCL mode supports CCITT G3/G4 type graphic data
compression.
This format is popular in optical document storage area as this compression
is effective to store black and white type pictures.
Compression mode for CCITT G3/G4 is 1152 and the command becomes
ESC * b 1152 M.
As G3/G4 format does not have picture size/resolution information, the
printer requires a header at the beginning of the picture data. The header
size is 94 byte. Both the header and the picture data are transferred by one
transfer graphics data command (ESC * b ### W). Normal PCL transfer
graphics data command has a limitation of the data size and ### should not
exceed 32767. Unlike other mode, mode 1152 is special and this mode does
not have 32767 byte size limitation.
Print model is not applied to this type of raster graphics.
The mode 1152 graphic data consists of the following data structure. The
picture data follows the header.
Header 94 bytes
File length
Picture = ####
CCITT G3/G4 data of ESC*b####W
Picture Data length
Header format is described on the next page.
You have to specify mode 1152 by sending ESC *b1152M command for
each graphic data transfer.
About CCITT G3/G4 data format, please refer to CCITT (THE
INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH AND TELEPHONE
CONSULTATIVE COMMITTEE) BLUE BOOK Volume VII.