Printer not holding it's PCL settting "Raw character printing"

I have some older HP printers where I can send PCL commands to the printers (font, size,orientation, etc.) using a program in Unix,. I can send multiple jobs to that printer and it holds the setting sent to the printer until I send the default PCL setting command back to the printer.
On the newer HP printers, I send the same commands, but the printer is not holding the setting when I send the additional print jobs.  Is there some setting on the printers where I can change the printer behavior similar to the older printers?  Or, is there is a PCL command that would give me the same behavior?

Most modern LaserJet (and clone) printers reset to user environment (power-on) defaults at the end of each 'print job'.
... and if a print job is not terminated with explicit PCL5 reset or Universal Exit Language reset sequences, the printer will force a reset at the end of a timeout period (usually defaulting to 300 seconds).
So you'll probably have to concatenate your 'initialisation sequences' with each actual print job.
[When I worked on early System 5 *n*x systems many years ago, you could set up initialisation strings within the 'lpsched' spooling system, using the IS2 variable.]

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