Gemini Industries Printer user manual What the SELF-TEST Means

Gemini User’s Manual

WHAT THE SELF-TEST MEANS							-
The Gemini Self-Test allows you to test the printer’s performance
before putting		it	to	work. Beyond that, the Self-Test is a			-
demonstration of some of the characters Gemini has stored in							-
its permanent memory.
	On the following pages, groups of characters from the Self-
Test are identified			and discussed. Where a character has multiple				-
meanings or uses, this manual provides the most common and
generally used.
	In discussing		these characters, we face the old problem			of	-
defining a word without using that word in the definition. To make
it easier to identify			which character we’re discussing, we’ve coded				-
some of the characters to correspond with letters of the English
alphabet. If you look at Figure 3-3,you’ll see that the fifth character							-
shown in the sequence on the lower line is the “percent” sign. For
purposes of our discussion,					we’ve coded it so it corresponds	to	_
the letter “f” above it. In Chapter Five, you’ll learn about other
“codes” that have been created to facilitate discussion about
computer-generated				characters.
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abcdefghijklmnop					rstuvwx
				,T!			-
!“#B%&’ Ot+,-./012345678Y:~(->?B
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Figure 3-3.	The first	part		(of the first Self-Test lines) shows the
characters	often associated			with	the top row of keys on a typewriter.		-

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