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This chapter introducesboth the hardware and software aspects of the Star

LaserPrinter 4111’spersonality,from fonts and print engine to ASCII and

Escape sequences.

1.1 STAR LASERPRINTER 4111HARDWARE

1.1.1 Versatility

Your Star Micronics Star LaserPrinter 4111works with practically all

commercialsoftware programsand computers.With features thatgobeyond

Star’s easy, affordable 9-pin and fast, quality-printing 24-pin dot matrix

printers,the Star LaserPrinter is thelogicalnext step in theseries offine Star

Micronics printers.

Your Star LaserPrinter 4111produces pagesthatlook closeto typesetquality,

withup to 90,000 dots per square inch —nomore NLQ (near letter quality)

compromises. The Star LaserPrinter 4111producesfour of those pages a

minute. These numbers translate to about five times more resolution and

aboutthree times more speed than the average dot-matrix printer.

Star’snew printer is remarkablyversatile. You can print complicated forms

(widthwiseif youwant).. .detailedgraphs ...yourowncustomized typestyles

...digitized photographs...other languages(including ArabicandJapanese).

You can even print your letterhead and logo as you print your letter, and

reprint them directly onto abusiness envelope. You don’t even need to

removethe paper tray to print the envelope:just slide itinto themanual feed

slot.

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Contents

Main Page PREFACE About this manual Whats in this manual? Conventions The Star LaserPrinter 4/// Operations Manual TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Page m GettingbKnoWYow Star LaserPrinte~4111 1.1 STAR LASERPRINTER 4111HARDWARE 1.1.1 Versatility 1.1.2 Font options CG Times Font .1.1.3How your laser printer communicates 1.1.4 The Star LaserPrinter 4111is acomputer 1.1.5 The Print engine rir 1.2 STAR LASERPRINTER 4111SOFTWARE 1.2.1 Binary and hexadecimal arithmetic 1.2.2 TheASCII table 0 0 0 o 0100 1010 1.2.3 Control codes 1.2.4 Escape sequences 1.2.5 Printer drivers 1.2.6 Sending your own printer commands 1.2.7A BASIC example 1.2.8 Printer emulations Page 2.1 PRINTER PARAMETERS 2.1.1 The control panel 2.1.2 Parameter settings 2.1.3 Four versions of parameters Page I 2.1.4 How to change parameters 2.2 CONTROLLING THE PRINTER 2.2.1 The l/VTERFACEparameter Serial interface: rate Serial interface: special bits Serial interface:protocol 2.2.2 Checking your connections 2.2.3 Hints: The hex dump 2.3 CONTROLLING 2.3.1 The PAPER FEED parameter 2.3.2 Hints: Pape6 labels and transparencies 200C. 2.3.3 The LAYOUTparameter Page orientation Margins, columns and lines <T-n/ Autoparameters 2.3.4 Moving the print position: apreview 2.4 CONTROLLING THE PRINTING Font attributes: apreview 2.5 THE STAR LASERPRINTER 4111SUPERSET Em Fonts 3.1 FONT TERMINOLOGY 3.1.1 Typefaces and fonts 3.1.2 Font height size and type~ace. Baseline 3.1.3 Font spacing and pitch 3.2 HOW THE STAR LASERPRINTER 4111 STORES FONTS 3.2.1 Bit-mapped fonts 3.2.2 Internal fonts 3.2.3 Cartridge and downloaded fonts 3.2.4 Hints: Where to get fonts 3.3 SYMBOL SETS 3.3.1 What are symbol sets? 3.3.2 Default font attributes 3.4 MANAGING FONTS 3.4.1 Selecting fonts 3.4.2 Hints: Desktop publishing and page design 3.4.3 Optional fonts 3.4.4 Using cartridge fonts 3.4.5 How to download fonts 3.4.6 Downloading afont: example one 3.4.7 Downloading afont: example two 3.4.8 Hints: Managing memory . Page m FW7terControl Language A 4.1 PRINTER CONTROL LANGUAGE 4.1.1 What do Printer Control Language look like? 4.1.2 Combining Escape sequences I 4.2 CONTROLLING THE PRINTER 4.2.1 4.2.2 Set number of copies 4.2.3 Set feed selection 4.2.4 4.2.5 Example: Printer controls 4.3 PAGE ORIENTATION 4,3.1 Page Length Page 4.3.2 Side margins 4.3.3 Topmargin 4.3.4 formatting 4.3.5 Example: Page 4.4 4.4.1 Many ways to move 4.4.2 4.4.3 Defining the space and column 4.4.5 4.4.6 Movjng the PRINT posjtjon horizontally 4.4.7 and dots Page 4.4.8 Moving the print position vertically 4.4.9 Verticalmoves: bylines, decipoints and dots 4.4.10 Combining move commands .4.4.11 4.4.12 4.4.13 Line feeds 4.4.14 4.4.15 Define automatic line endings 4.4.16 4.4.17 4.5 CONTROLLING FONTS 4.5.1 Font selection 4.5.2 Selecting primary or secondary fonts ! <so> 4.5.3 Assigning font ID numbers 4.5.4 Selecting downloaded fonts 4.5.5 Font attributes Orientation Symbol sets: areview Selecting asymbol set Note: The symbol sets marked with *can select when the approval Font Cartridge is installed. 66 Selecting the current or default symbol set Example: Symbol set commands Spacing Pitch Font height Style Stroke weight Typeface Example: Font attributes 4.5.6 Underline 4.5.7 How to print Escape sequences and control codes 4.5.8 Font control 4.5.9 Example: Controlling fonts Page 4.5.10 Example: Assigning font numbers 4.6 USING YOUR OWN FONTS 4.6.1 Font design is tedious 4.6.2 How to download your own fonts 1)Assigning afont ID to your font 2) Downloading aheaderfor your font Page Pe c y f De c y f Pt RG Dr o g i Icsg Ic c t a g d I Scwtg d Scg PG 4Dro p d 4Caparo p 1- Page Page 4E P g 4M 4Um 4MC Page 4EM CHR$(12) Page 5GC AS 5Pf 5Cs CTP 5EGm 5Dpfs 5Pfap 5Ps 5COAS Dc Ic I r c Iwc Pe c Rcsc ~ 90 Sc Page VG ac rc Atpc Cc Pac dc Pe c Prc Page 5PG EA.ER, Erac Epc Er r c E w c Fpc Pmc Frac Fr r c F w c LAFAG Ac c Ftc Lac Ltc wc Rfdc W Smc Sc Sv c Tmc Ul t c wusc CG Afdc Cfmc o Cpc Absolute direction command Relative direction command Define label terminator command Define variable textpath command Extra space command Selectprimary font command Select secondaryfont command Page Standardfont definition command Absolute character size command Character slant command Relative character size command Select standardfont command Transparentdata command 5.8 ESCAPE SEQUENCES IN GIJ2 MODE Page Page 6.1 COMMAND SUMMARY 6.1.1 Printer Control Language (PCL) commands I Page 6.1.2 GL/2 commands Page 6.2 SYMBOL SETS ID Number Symbol Name OD 1S0 60: Norwegian A 135 i l--i +-+ I * + Page Page Page Page Page E E F c Page I Page Page Page Page Page Page Page I I I I w I Page Page Page o k b-l% Page Page Page Page ID Number Symbol Name B 162 =El= -4 a m II % Page Page Index m [m ascender,28 ASCII,6-11 ASCII Autowrapcommand,59 B-; Tq N~ 1:0 ON Rj u -v ] 1.L