Star Micronics 4 manual Meaning

MEANING

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6-7 baselinepositionfor charactem

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12 orientation

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23 style

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3)Positioningeach characterin your font Beforeyoudownloadeachcharacteryouhaveto telltheprinterwherein its font tableto put it. You indicatewhereby sendingthis command:

<ESC> *C n E

For n youputthe decimalnumber,betweenOand255,of thepositionin the font table whereyou want yourcharacterstored.

Yourprinter’sfonttableisjust likethe ASCIItable. Beforeyou send each character,sayg, youhaveto saywhereyouwantto putit. IntheASCIItable,

gis at decimalposition103.So you sendthis command: <ESC> *C 103E

And immediatelyafterit you sendthe bits thatmakeup the characterg.

4) Describing each character in your font

The next step is to describeeach of yourcharacters,“mapping”whereyou wanteach dot to go. Send this commandbeforeeach character:

<ESC>(S n W

For n you enterthe numberof bytesyou’llbe sendingafterthis command,

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