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CONTROLLING FONTS Selecting fonts The Star LaserPrinter 8111 uses Courier font as its default Proprinter font. It
switches to the Line Printer font for condensed print, and to Prestige for 12-
pitch.
You can select these through the front panel’s program menu.
Orientation Portrait and landscape orientations are available through the front panel’s
program menu or the Select Orientation superset command. If the printer
doesn’t have enough memory in which to rotate your current font, it displays
a message on the panel and uses instead the closest font to the one you’ve
been using.
Symbol sets Proprinter emulation normally works with one of two symbol sets, called
IBM Character Sets 1 and 2. Both are shown in Chapter 8.
The differences betweenthem are slight. Both contain the normal ASCII and
international characters, plus standard graphics characters used by many
software programs. The only important difference is that Character Set 2 has
accented vowels and currency symbols instead of control codes in positions
128 through159.
To select the standard IBM Character Set 1, send this command:
<ESC> 7
You should not use Character Set 2 with programs using control codes above
position 128 in the ASCII table, as those positions are occupied by intema-
tional vowel characters and currency symbols instead. However, if you do
want access to those international characters, use this command to select
IBM Character Set 2:
<ESC> 6
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