Printing international characters Control codes are not printable. But Character Set 2 stores accented vowel
characters and currency symbols in ASCII positions normally occupied by
control codes. And both symbol sets store playing card symbols (heart, club,
diamond and spade) in control code positions. You have to go out of your way
in IBM Proprinter mode to print those “protected” characters.
To print characters stored in the conttol code parts of an IBM symbol set,
send this command before each one:
<ES0 *
If you have to print a lot of characters that way it can get pretty tedious. So
to print a group of protected characters you can use this command:
<ESC>\ nl n2 (data)
You add the nl and n2 numbers together to produce one sum, the number of
characters in your (data) . The nl represents single units and n2 represents
256~unit groups. So the number of characters to be sent is nl + (n2 x 256).
Font size and style: identical commands The Proprinter offers not only emphasized and near-letter-quality print
modes, but also double-wide and double-high. These can be used in any
combination.
The following font size commands are identical in both Proprinter and EX-
800 emulations. If you’re not sure how they work, see the last chapter.
Select Condensed Mode <SI>
Select Double-width (one line) <so>
Cancel Double-width (one-line) <DC4>
Turn OnJOff Double-width Mode <ESC> W n
Select Emphasized Mode <ES0 E
Cancel Emphasized Mode cESC> F
Select Double-Strike Mode <ESC> G
Cancel Double-Strike Mode <ESC> H
Select Superscript/Subscript Mode <ES0 S n
Cancel SuperscriptlSubscript Mode <ESC> T
Turn OnlOff Underlining <ES0 - n
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