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Table of Contents

LIPS - Canon Laser-beam Image Processing System
- Versions
  - LIPS I
  - LIPS II
  - LIPS III
  - LIPS IVc
  - LIPS IV
Reference

LIPS - Canon Laser-beam Image Processing System

LIPS supports Diablo 630 (the factory setting for the command mode), ISO mode (for printing text data and raster graphics) and VDM mode (for vector graphics and character printing). Another name for this emulation is CaPSL.

LIPS is based on

ISO/IEC 646 - 7-bit coded character set for information interchange
ISO/IEC 6429 - ECMA-48 Control Functions for Coded Character Sets
ISO/IEC 2022 - Character code structure and extension techniques
X3H33 - ANSI X3H33 (VDM)

Versions

LIPS I

1984 - (Models: LBP-8 AJ1, LBP-8 AJ2)

LIPS II

1987 - (Models: LBP-B406, LBP-A408)

LIPS III

1989 - (Models: LBP-B406 Series, LBP-A404 Series, LBP-405Jr, LBP-A304 Series, LBP-A309G II)

LIPS IVc

1993 - (Models: BJC-880J, BJC-680J)

LIPS IV

1995 - (Models: LBP-730)

Reference

CaPSL III escape codes:
lbp_escapes.txt

There are some japanese reference manuals available from the japanese Canon FTP site:
ftp://download.canon.jp/pub/mie_lips4/

^ESC	0x1b
^CSI	0xE9
^DCS	0xDC
^ST	0xEA

Command	Syntax	Version
Reset	^ESC;^ESCc^ESC;
Soft Reset	^ESC<	LIPS 3
Fullpaint Mode	^ESC[2&z
Select Page Type	^ESC[#p # = numerical, ascii even = portrait uneven = landscape 12/13 = A3 14/15 = A4 16/17 = A5 18/19 = Postcard 20/21 = A4 24/25 = B4 26/27 = B5 28/29 = B6 30/31 = Letter 32/33 = Legal 40/41 = Executive
Set Mode	^ESC[#h # = numerical, ascii
Select Unit Size (300dpi)	^ESC[7 I
Move # dots up	^ESC[#k # = numerical, ascii