Star Micronics 8111 Consumer Response

Consumer Response

Star Micmnics Co., Ltd. invites your suggestions and comments on your

printer and this manual. Please address your correspondence to:

Worldwide Headquarters:

STAR MICRONICS CO., LTD.

194 Nakayoshida

Shizuoka, JAPAN 422-9 1

Attn: Product Manager

American Market:

STAR MICRONICS AMERICA, INC.

420 Lexington Avenue, Suite 2702-25

New York, NY 10170

Atm: Product Manager

European Market:

STAR MICRONICS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH

WesterbachstraI3e 59

P.O. Box 940330

D-6000 Frankfurt/Main 90

F.R. of Germany

Attn: Product Manager

U.K. Market:

STAR MlCRONlCS U.K., LTD.

Star House

Peregrine Business Park

Gomm Road, High Wycombe

Bucks. HP13 7DL, U.K.

Attn: Product Manager

French Market:

STAR MICRONICS FRANCE S.A.R.L.

25, rue Michael Faraday

78 180 Montigny-le-Btetonneux

Attn: Product Manager

Asian Market:

STAR MJCRONICS ASIA LTD.

Room 2408- 10 Sincere Building;

173 Des Voeux Road, Central, HONG KONG

Attn: Product Manager

Contents

Main - NOTICE PREFACE About this manual Whats in this manual? L-. Conventions The Star LaserPrinter 8/N Operations Manual TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Page STAR LASERPRINTER 8llI HARDWARE Versatility Font options CG Times Font How your laser printer communicates The Star LaserPrinter 8111 is a computer The Print engine STAR LASERPRINTER 8JlI SOFTWARE Binary and hexadecimal arithmetic The ASCII table Page Escapesequences - Printer drivers Sending your own printer commands A BASIC example Printer emulations Page PRINTER PARAMETERS The front panel Parameter settings Four versions of parameters How to change parameters CONTROLLING THE PRINTER The 1NTERFACE parameter Page Checking your connections Printer emulations What are the emulated printers like? The Command parameter I Hints: The hex dump CONTROLLING THE PAGE The PAPER FEED parameter Page Hints: Paper, labels and transparencies Page The LAYOUT parameter landscape Page Moving the print position: a preview CONTROLLING THE PRINTING The EMULATE ATTRIBUTES parameter THE STAR LASERPRINTER 8IlI SUPERSET Do you need to send commands? The Star LaserPrinter 8lll superset The Change Emulation command The Select Orientation command The Paper Size command FONT TERMINOLOGY Typefaces and fonts Select Simplex/duplex mode (DX type only) I A font is a complete set of 4 -characters in a particular EII:zr size and typeface. Font spacing and pitch Font height Cartridge and downloaded fonts HOW THE STAR LASERPRINTER 8 STORES FONTS Bit-mapped fonts In ternal fonts Courier SYMBOL SETS What are symbol sets? Hints: Where to get fonts Default font attributes MANAGING FONTS Selecting fonts Hints: Desktop publishing and page design Optional fonts Using cartridge fonts How to download fonts Downloading a font: example one Downloading a font: example two Hints: Managing memory Page Page HP LASERJET III COMMANDS What do LaserJet III commands look like? Combining Escape sequences CONTROLLING THE PRINTER Self test Set number of copies Set feed selection Reset Example: Printer controls PAGE ORIENTATION Page Length Side margins Top margin Text length and the bottom margin Example: Page formatting MOVING THE PRINT POSITION Many ways to move Lines per inch Defining the space and column Defining line depth Moving the PRINT position horizontally Horizontal moves: by columns, decipoints and dots Moving the print position vertically Vertical moves: by lines, decipoints and dots Combining move commands Backspace Carriage return Line feeds Form feed Define automatic line endings Autowrap Pushing and popping the print position CONTROLLING FONTS Font selection Selecting primary or secondary fonts Assigning font ID numbers Selecting downloaded fonts Font attributes Page Page OQ IQ 9Q 24 8Q IIQ / 1 (one) Selects same symbol set as primary font I / I - <ESC> ( O@ Page Page Page Page Underline How to print Escape sequences and control codes Page Example: Con trolling fonts Example: Assigning font numbers USING YOUR OWN FONTS Font design is tedious Page Page Page RASTER GRAPHICS Starting raster graphics Page Sending and ending raster graphics PATTERN GRAPHICS Defhing rule or pattern dimensions Choosing and printing a rule or pattern c i i ,I, I-I trl Page Examples: Pattern graphics VECTOR GRAPHICS Polygon mode Page HP-GU2 status HP-GU2 Syntax HP-GU2 coordinate system HP-GU2 commands Commands Page Page F . . Page Page v~ueWjl1) Page Page Page Page Page RO (rouW (bwle IO1 I> Page Page Page SP (=lect pen) Un WI> =x1 7-R (tmspa=ncy) ([n I 1 II) MACROS Using macros Macro Control 1 Co=) Example: Macros EX-800 COMMANDS What do EX-800 commands look like? Use real numbers, not ASCII symbols Unsupported commands CONTROLLING THE PRINTER Putting the printer online or offline L Reset FORMATTING PAGES Page length lop and bottom margins Page Side margins tfo w to center or justify text Line spacing MOVING THE PRINT POSITION Space Backspace commands Carriage return Line feed commands Form feed Left-to-right printing Moving horizontally from the left margin Moving horizontally from the current position = Horizontal tabs Vertical tabs Vertical tabs in channels CONTROLLING FONTS Selecting fonts Orientation Symbol set International characters Japan Most significant bit Spacing Character spacing Pitch Condensed print b E : i: / Extended print Font height Style Stroke weight Typeface Underline Master Select Subscripts and superscripts How to cancel a line or delete a character I User-defined characters GRAPHICS Printing dots What do graphics commands look like? Other graphics densities Changing a commands density Nine-pin graphics Page PROPRINTER COMMANDS Why use the Proprinter emulation? Unsupported commands CONTROLLING THE PRINTER Identical printer control commands Putting the printer offline FORMATTING PAGES Identical formatting commands Set top of page MOVING THE PRINT POSITION Identical print positioning commands Define line spacing Select line spacing Special line feed Turning automatic line feed on or off Setting horizontal tabs Restoring default tab settings CONTROLLING FONTS Selecting fonts Orientation Symbol sets Printing international characters Font size and style: identical commands Pitch Font height Style, stroke weight and typeface Overscoring GRAPHICS Identical graphics commands Page Page COMMAND SUMMARY HP LaserJet Ill Emulation Printer Commands . Page Page Page Epson EX-800 Emulation Printer Commands Page IBM Proprin ter Emulation Printer Commands Page SYMBOL SETS Page Page Page Page Page Page SBb, I (LAN, Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page Page F 1 lob 12 ID Number Symbol Name -4 A B D 1 E <so, 1 F 1 w 3 Page Page Page Page Page Page Page . ID Number Symbol Name 2 I 1 I I g I 9 C D E I Page I 4 I I<DCl, I, I, I, In I, I, I ID Number Symbol Name 1 F Page Page Page Page Page Page I Page Page I -4 Page Page Page AIB s Page I Page IAl ccl jG( El IKI El IN1 CQI IRI Page El Page Consumer Response