Homelite 2060, HL-P2500, HL-1660E Using customized characters, EscRn 2782n, Esctn 27116n 1Bh74hn

10/10/03

Select international character set

EscRn (27)(82)n <1Bh><52h>n

•This command selects one of the available international character sets, refer to the printer User Guide for supported character sets.

•Each character set varies slightly from the others and contains a small number of special characters necessary for printing in that particular language.

•The selection you make with this command does not affect any italic or graphics character table selection that you may have made with the Esc t command.

•The character sets listed below, plus several others, can also be selected from the printer’s control panel.

•The character sets available and the corresponding values of n are as follows:

US ASCII	0	Japanese	8
French I	1	Norwegian	9
German	2	Danish II	10
UK ASCII I	3	UK ASCII II	13
Danish I	4	French II	14
Swedish	5	Dutch	15
Italy	6	South African	16
Spanish	7

•If you have selected the graphics character table with the Esc t 1 command the following additional character sets are available.

Norwegian set I	17	IBM set I	19
Norwegian set II	18	IBM set II	20

LPRINT CHR$(27); CHR$(82); CHR$(3); 'Select British char set

Select italic / graphics character table

Esctn (27)(116)n <1Bh><74h>n

•This command allows you to choose between two character tables - the italic character table and the graphics character table.

•The two tables are shown in the Epson FX-850 section of the appendix at the end of this manual.

•Set n to 0 to select the italic character table. Character codes in the range 160 to 255 are now italic characters.

•Set n to 1 to select the extended character table. Character codes in the range 128 to 255 are now foreign language and graphics characters.

•You can still print italic characters using the Select Italic Mode, Esc 4, command even when you have selected the graphics character table.

6.6.Using customized characters

Define characters

Esc&NULn1n2(n3<character definition data>) (27)(38)(00)n1n2(n3....)

<1Bh><26h><00h>n1n2(n3...)

•This command enables you to define and download characters for printing.

•Monospaced characters are designed on a grid eleven dots wide by nine dots high. Characters either occupy the top 8 rows of the grid (ascending characters) or rows 2 to 9 of the grid (descending characters).

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Replication area

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Rows 2 - 9

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