Star Micronics 4111 manual Byte Meaning

Here’s a typical font header command:

<ESC>)s26WO<SUB>OIOOO<RS>O<RS>O2OOl<FF>OdOaOOOO<ETX>

Aside from the actual command at the front, the rest looks like gobbledy- gook? But there’s 26 bytes there, each one an ASCII character, each one specifying a particular font attribute. (The enclosed items with brackets are single ASCII characters that happen to be control codes.)

Each byte in the header is a number, which you send as whatever symbol happens to be stored at that numeric position in the ASCII table. Coding some of these numbers is tricky, however, and we recommend you ask your Star Micronics dealer to help you build your font header. To get you started, the table below shows what each of those bytes means:

BYTE	MEANING
o	header length -	1
2	blank
3	font size
4-5	blank
6-7	baseline position for characters
8	blank
9	cell width
10	blank
11	cell height
12	orientation
13	spacing
14-15	symbol set
16-17	pitch
18-19	line spacing
20-22	blank
23	style
24	stroke weight
25	typeface

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