Selecting an International Character Set

International character sets provide you with the characters and symbols used in other languages. You can select one of eight international character sets by changing the DIP switch settings.

Whenever the printer is turned on, reset, or initialized, the character set selected by the DIP switches becomes the default character set.

To select an international character set, set DIP switches 1-1,1-2, and 1-3 according to the table below.

Note: DIP switch 1-7 must be off. To select an international character set when DIP switch 1-7 is on, use the ESC R command.

This table also shows the characters that differ in each international character set.

Country

ASCII code hex

DIP SW

 

 

23 24 40 58 5C 5D 5E 60 7B 7C 7D 7E

1-1 1-2 1-3

 

0

U.S.A.

ON

ON

ON

1

France

ON

ON

OFF

2

Germany

ON OFF ON

3

U.K.

ON

OFF

OFF

4 Denmark

OFF ON

ON

5

Sweden

OFF ON

OFF

6

Italy

OFF OFF

ON

7 Spain

OFF OFF

OFF

Note: To change the setting of a DIP switch, first turn off the printer, change the DIP switch setting, and then turn the printer back on.

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