Oki 4410 manual Custom Font Commands Epson & IBM, Epson FX Custom Font Command

Custom Font Commands: Epson & IBM

Note: Custom characters are not saved when the printer is turned off.

Epson FX Custom Font Command

ASCII	Hexadecimal	Decimal
ESC & m n1 n2 a d1 ... d11	1B 26 m n1 n2 a d1 ... d11	27 38 m n1 n2 a d1 ... d11

This command is used to define up to 256 character patterns and store the patterns in RAM. The matrix size used to define the characters is 11 horizontal dot columns x 8 vertical dot columns. Used with Utility mode only.

The first portion of this command—ESC & NUL n 1 n2—is used once to set up the printer for the characters to be stored.

The second portion of this command—a d 1 ... d11—is used repeatedly, once for each character to be defined and stored.

Parameter m

Use NUL (00H, 0D) for parameter m. This parameter sets the area of RAM used to store the data.

Parameters n1, n2

Parameter n1 is used to set the location of the first character to be redefined and parameter n2 is used to set the location of the last character to be redefined.

If less than 256 characters are to be defined, all character locations (addresses) must be consecutive from the starting character.

• n 1, n2 = 0 to 255 decimal

Parameter a

Parameter a sets the character type, according to the values assigned to its 8-bit definition.

• a = 0 to 255 decimal

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