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Brother Laser Printer HL1660e User Manual

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2001/10/02

CHAPTER 5 PJL - 46

The printer may send back the answer for the above INFO command :

@PJL INFO CONFIG

IN TRAYS [1 ENUMERATED]

INTRAY1 PC

INTRAY2 LC

OUT TRAYS [2 ENUMERATED]

NORMAL FACEDOWN

PAPER [9 ENUMERATED]

LETTER

LEGAL

A4

EXECUTIVE

MONARCH

COM10

DL

C5

B5

LANGUAGES [5 EMULATED]

PCL

POSTSCRIPT

IBM

EPSON

HPGL

USTATUS [4 ENUMERATED]

DEVICE

JOB

PAGE

TIMED

FONT CARTRIDGE SLOTS [2 ENUMERATED]

CARTRIDGE

CARTRIDGE1

MEMORY=2097152

DISPLAY LINES=1

DISPLAY CHARACTER SIZE=16

In this example, IN TRAYS [2 ENUMERATED] indicates that there are two options in IN TRAYS (paper
sources) and MEMORY=2097152 indicates the RAM size in the printer is 2097152 bytes.

7.5.3. MEMORY category

The application can use the @PJL INFO MEMORY command to check the size of total free memory and the
largest free memory block in the printer.

The free memory size may vary according to the personality (printer language). In order to know the free
memory size in PCL, use the *s1M (Free Space command) in the PCL status readback commands.

Example

The application sends the following command to the printer :

%-12345X@PJL

@PJL COMMENT the INFO MEMORY command follows

@PJL ECHO This is a sample 2-28-1993 19:03:00

@PJL INFO MEMORY

%-12345X

The printer sends back the answer for the above command :

@PJL ECHO This is a sample 2-28-1993 19:03:00

@PJL INFO MEMORY

TOTAL=159984

LARGEST=53322