Star Micronics 4111 manual Example Controlling fonts, Function

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To control fonts you send this command:

<ESC> *C r? F

For n enter one of the numbers from this table of functions:

.n

O(zero)

1 (one)

2

3

4

5

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FUNCTION

Delete all temporary and permanent fonts

Delete all temporary fonts (another way to delete all temporary fonts is to send a reset command) Delete just the font with the most recently specified

ID

Delete just the last character of the font you have downloaded

Make the current font ID temporary Make the current font ID permanent Make a temporary copy of the current font

A bit of explanation about that last function 6: When you give a font ID to anyfont you first need a temporary copy of that font in memory. That copy is already there for downloaded fonts. But you will need function 6 to create a temporary copy of an internal or cartridge font.

Here’s how to assign ID numbers to an internal or cartridge font. You first select the font, then send the Font ID command to give it an ID number, and finally copy the font into memory with Font Control function 6. If you want that copy to stay in RAM when you reset the printer, you conclude by sending Font Control function 5.

4.5.9 Example: Controlling fonts

Let see how those last few commands work. translated into BASIC.

Pretend you want to make a short test with your current font (it doesn’t matter what it is): you want to print what’s in ASCII table positions 128through 130. There’s nothing there in your normal Roman-8 symbol set, but some other sets keep control codes or international characters there.

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