Oki 4410 manual IBM Proprinter III Custom Fonts Command, Dot Columns

IBM Proprinter III Custom Fonts Command

ASCII	Hexadecimal	Decimal
ESC = c1 c2 m n a1 a2 d1...d11	1B 3D c1 c2 m n a1 a2 d1...d11	27 61 c1 c2 m n a1 a2 d1...d11

This command is used to define up to 256 character patterns and store the patterns in RAM.

	Dot Columns
Print Quality	Horizontal	Vertical
Utility	11	8
NLQ (Near Letter Quality)	23	8

The first portion of this command—ESC = c 1 c2 m n—is used once to set up the printer for the characters to be stored.

The second portion of this command—a 1 a2 d1...d11—is used repeatedly, once for each character to be defined and stored.

Parameter c1

Parameter c1 is used to define the low byte of the total data count.

• c 1 = 0 to 255 decimal

Paramter c2

Parameter c2 is used to define the high byte of the total data count.

• c 2 = 0 to 255 decimal

Parameter m

Parameter m is used to set the print quality.

•m = 20: UTL

•m = 21: NLQ II/Alternate NLQ II

Parameter n

Parameter n sets the starting character in RAM to be defined as custom characters.

• n = 0 to 255 decimal

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