SFCC

Special Function Control Character. The first

 

character in a printer command sequence. In

 

Proprinter III XL emulation mode, you can select one

 

of five characters as the SFCC. In Epson emulation

 

mode, the SFCC must always be the ASCII escape

 

character (ESC). See also command sequence and

 

escape sequence.

shadow printing

A typeface with a heavy line thickness produced by

 

doublestriking. The printer forms a character, then

 

prints it again, but fractionally offset from the first

 

position. See also bold, character weight.

shuttle

The subassembly in a line matrix printer that includes

 

the hammer bank assembly and some or all of the

 

drive mechanism.

sixel

A vertical column consisting of six pixels and treated

 

as a unit in graphics applications.

size, type

See point.

SLD

Set Line Density

slewing

Rapid vertical paper movement.

SNA

Systems Network Architecture. A hardware and

 

software protocol used on IBM mainframe networks.

soft reset

See warm start.

SOH

Start Of Header

spacing

See font, proportional and font, monospaced.

SSCC

SuperSet Control Code. It is of the form SFCC } ;

 

and is used to execute superset commands.

start bit

The signal that indicates the start of a character or

 

element in a serial data stream.

stop bit

The signal that indicates the end of a character or

 

element in a serial data stream.

string

Two or more bytes of data or code treated as a unit.

style, type

See type style.

superset commands

Commands which are an extension to the base

 

LinePrinter+ printer protocol, such as the bar code

 

commands for the Epson FX protocol. See also

 

SSCC.

symbol set

See character set.

 

T

TCB

Task Control Block

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