Chapter 6

Graphics and User-defined Characters

The dot graphics modes allow your LQ-2500 to produce pictures, graphs, charts, or almost any other pictorial material you can devise. The userdefined character feature allows you (or an application program) to put special characters in the LQ’s memory so that they can be printed just as if they were ordinary letters or numbers.

Because many application programs use graphics, you may be able to print pictures and graphs like the ones on this page and the next by simply giving your program a few instructions.

The quickest and easiest way to print graphics on your LQ is to use a commercial graphics program. With such programs you usually create an image on your monitor and then give a command to send the image to the printer.

Graphics and Userdefined Characters

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