Epson 4100 manual DEC Character Options

Operator's Guide 83

DEC Character Options

Pressing YES prints out the first of the DEC character options listed below:

• DEC Character Set •

•Character Map G0

•Character Map G1

•Character Map G2

•Character Map G3

A DEC LA210 printer contains two variations of DEC character sets: one called the 7-Bit DEC and the other the 8-Bit DEC. Although only one character set can be the DEC default character set, you can assign national-use character map(s) to each of them.

You specify national-use character maps in G0 through G3. (DEC refers to G0 through G3 as graphics maps.) When the printer is turned on, G0 is automatically assigned to either:

•The 7-Bit DEC Character Set

•The lower half of the 8-Bit DEC Character Set (G2 is automatically assigned to the upper half of the 8-Bit DEC Character Set*)

You can specify one of 12 default national-use character maps or a multilingual character map for each graphics map.

*Although these power-on defaults cannot be changed, G0, G1, G2, G3 can be re-assigned, after turning on the printer, by using DEC control commands. (G0 can only be assigned to data bytes 0-127.)