Star Micronics 4 manual Each emulationhas symbolsets, Defaultfontattributes

Youprobablywon’tchangesymbolsetsveryoften,unlessyouneedspecial symbolsfor your tradeor regularlywritein a languageother than English. Whenyoudoneedthem,though,inoneoranotheremulationmodeyourStar LaserPrinter4 supportssymbolsets for all these countries:

U.S. (ASCII) UnitedKingdom France

Germany SwedenFinland

ItalyDenmarkNorway

Spain

Besidestheseyourprintersupportssetscontainingjust symbols,suchasthe Greek alphabet(13),logicsymbols(S), arrows(t), the qjistered trademark symbol(@)and so on.

3.3.2 Each emulationhas symbolsets

Yourlaser printer worksby emulatingor followingcommandsdeveloped originallyfor otherprinters.One of the StarLaserPrinter8’s advantagesis thatit offefi youa choiceofseveralbuilt-insymbolsetsforeachfontineach emulation.

TheactualFX-850,printerdoesnotusesymbolsetsto produceinternational accentedcharactemandspecialsymbols.Instead,theFX-8501etsyoudefine whichcharactersyou want with parametersettings.

WhenyourStarLaserPnnter4 is emulatingtheHPLaserJetIIP,thenormal default symbol set is the Roman-8 set. Roman-8 includes all the usual keyboardcharacters,numbersandsymbolsin ASCII,plusaccentedfo~ign- languageCharactersand specialsymbols(butnothingfor line drawing).

TheEpsonFX-850emulationis mllyvematile. Itletsyouhavebothofthose IBMsymbolsetsplusEpson’sownstandardsymbolset.ThisEpsonsymbol set is unusual:it containsbothuprightanditaliccharactersin the sameset. You may also choose from symbol sets for all the countriesmentioned above,plus a seconduniqueset for each of Denmarkand Spain.

3.3.3 Defaultfontattributes

Whenyoupoweron yourprinterandchooseanemulation,theinternalfonts startoff withdefaultattributeswhichyoucanchangeasneeded.Thedefault symbolsets dependon the emulation:in LaserJetIIP mode the defaultis Roman-8,and in EpsonEX-800mode it’sEpsonStd USA.

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