SEGMENT Command

Use the SEGMENT command only if you want page segments to be loaded to the printer before the page begins printing. If segments are used repeatedly and need to be available in the printer, this eliminates the need to load them each time. However, they do take up raster-pattern storage.

A separate SEGMENT command is required for each page segment with a maximum of 127 SEGMENT commands within a single page format.

• For Traditional:

  PAGEFORMAT
   TRCREF
   SEGMENT
    ⋮
   SEGMENT

• For Record Format and XML:

  PAGEFORMAT
   SEGMENT
    ⋮
   SEGMENT

A SEGMENT command is nested within the page format and follows the PAGEFORMAT command.

For traditional page formats: To include a page segment on a page without using an IPS structured field within the user data, see the PRINTLINE Command (Traditional).

SEGMENTname

Specifies the alphanumeric name of 1 to 6 characters (user-access name) of the page segment. Each name must be unique within a single page format.

Note: The prefix S1 is not part of the six-character user-access name.