54 Chapter 4: Programming CommandsRevision D 12/09
Select or cancel user-defined character set
ASCII | ESC % n | |
Hexadecimal | 1B 25 n | |
Decimal | 27 37 n | |
Value of n: | 0 | = Code Page 437 |
| 1 | = User Defined (RAM) |
| 2 | = Code Page 850 |
Range of n: | ||
Default: | 0 | (Code Page 437) |
Selects the character set. When an undefined RAM character is selected, the current active ROM code page character is used. Look in Chapter 3: Programming the Printer, “Character appearance” for the character sets.
Exception:
The character sets cannot be used together on the same line.
Related information
In LEGACY emulation, the low order bit of n is used to select the
Define user-defined character set
ASCII | ESC & s c1 c2 [character 1 data] ... [character k data] |
Hexadecimal | 1B 26 s c1 c2 [character 1 data] ... [character k data] |
Decimal | 27 38 s c1 c2 [character 1 data] ... [character k data] |
Values and ranges:
s = 3, the number of bytes (vertically) in the character cell
c = the ASCII codes of the first (c1) and last (c2) characters respectively
c1 = Hex
To define only one character, use the same code for both c1 and c2
k = c2 – c1 + 1 = the number of characters to be defined in this command string [character i data] = [ni d1 ... d(3 x ni)] for 1 ≤ i ≤ k
ni = the number of dot columns for the ith character, 1 ≤ ni ≤ 16 d = the dot data for the characters
The number of bytes for the ith character cell is 3 x ni.
The bytes are printed down and across each cell.
Defines and enters downloaded characters into RAM. The command may be used to overwrite single characters. User- defined characters are available until power is turned off or the initialize printer command (1B 40) is received.
Any invalid byte (s, c1, c2, n1) aborts the command.
Related information
See 1D 22 n (select memory type) to save
