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Default font attributes
Symbol Sets
Reset
IBM Proprinter Commands
Parameter settings
Weight
How to
Cancel all tab stops
Using cartridge fonts
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Contents
Series
Series
Ventura Publisher, Hyplot, Diablo 630 Xerox Corporatimr
Preface
About this manual
What’s in this manual?
Conventions
Star LaserPrinter 8 Operations Manual
Table of Contents
Xerox Diablo 630 Commands
IBM Proprinter Commands
Versatility
Font options
How your Iaserprinter communicates
Star LaserPrinter 8 is a computer
Print engine
Binary and hexadecimal arithmetic
Decimal Binary Hexadecimal Decimal
Ascii table
Control codes
Escape sequences
Sending your own printer commands
Printer drivers
Basic example
Italics
Printer emulations
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Front panel
Parameter settings
Four versions of parameters
How to change parameters
Controlling the Printer
Interface parameter
Page
Checking your connections
What are the emulated printers like?
Command parameter
Hints The hex dump
Paper Feed parameter
Auto parameters
Hints Paper, labels and transparencies
Page
LAYOUTparameter
Margins, columns and lines
Moving the print position a preview
Emulate ATT../BUTES parameter
Do you need to send commands?
Star LaserPrinter8 superset
Change Emulation command
Select Orientation command
Paper Size command
Paper Feeder command
Select Simplex/duplex mode DX type only
Typefacesand fonts
Font height
Font is a complete4 set ~ characters in a particular
Bit-mappedfonts
Cartridgeand downloadedfonts
Hints Whereto get fonts
Symbol Sets
What are symbol sets?
Each emulat~onhas symbol sets
Ascii
Default font attributes
Selectingfonts
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Using cartridge fonts
Optional fonts
DOWNLOADCN1OORPN.R8P
How to download fonts
Downloading a font example one
PCLPFMCNIOO*.R8P
Downloading a font example two
DOWNLOADCN1OOIPN.R8P
Hints Managing memory
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What do LaserJet II commands look like?
Combining Escape sequences
Self test
Escz
Set feed se/ection
Reset
Set number of copies
RUN
Example Printer controls
Esce
Orientation
Length
Side margins
Top margin
Text length and the bottom margin
Page
Side Selection DX type only
Example Page formatting
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
Carriage return
Combining move commands
Backspace
Define automatic line endings
Line feeds
Form feed
Autowrap
Pushing and popping the print position
Font selection
Selecting primary or secondary fonts
Assigning font ID numbers
Selecting downloaded fonts
Font attributes
Symbolset
JIS Ascii
OCR-A
US-ASCII
OCR-B
Selection
ESC OG
Charactersper Inch
Style
OCR
Underline
How to print Escape sequences and control codes
Escy
Font control
Function
Example Controlling fonts
Example Assigning font numbers
LPRINTCHR$27 8U
How to download your own fonts
Font design is tedious
Assigning a font ID to your font
Byte Meaning
Permanent or temporary?
Graphics
Starting raster graphics
Sending and ending raster graphics
Rules and patterns
Defining rule or pattern dimensions
Choosing and printing a rule or pattern
#3#4 #5#6
Paitern
Using macros
Examples Pattern graphics
Macro Control
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Example Macros
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What do EX-800 commands look like?
Use real numbers, not Ascii symbols
Unsupported commands
Escem
ESC
BEL
Putting the printer online or offline
Bell
Top and bottom margins
Esco
Mode
How to center or justify text
Line spacing
Backspace commands
Space
Line feed commands
Left-to-right printing
Moving horizontally from the left margin
Moving horizontally from the current position
Horizontal tabs
Vertical tabs
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Vertical tabs in channels
Selecting fonts
Symbol set
Orientation
Hkmay
Most significant bit
Spacing
Condensed print
Character spacing
Pitch
Extended print
Font height
Stroke weight
Style
Typeface
Master Select
How to cancel a line or delete a character
Subscripts and superscripts
User-defined characters
What do graphics commands look like?
Printing dots
Other graphics densities
Tor l 8tf Yo r S oi D ee xa Aori o Sp g m Der Ao e
Changing a command’s density
Nine-pin graphics
Ad nl n2
Why use the Proprinter emulation?
Putting the printer offline
Unsuppotied commands
Identical printer control commands
Identical formatting commands
Set top
Special line feed
Define line spacing
Select line spacing
Turning automatic line feed on or off
Setting horizontal tabs
Restoring default tab settings
Symbol sets
Font size and style identical commands
Printing international characters
Style, stroke weight and typeface
Identical graphics commands
Overscoring
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What do Diablo commands look like?
Set feed selection
Reset commands
Formaiting Pages
How to set the depth of a line TheL
Length
Centering text
How to justify text
Justified t
Carriage returns
Backward printing
Reverse printing
Cancel all tab stops
Horizontal column move
Vertical line move
Special symbols
Escq
Proportional spacing offset
Escp
Esco Escw
Suppress printing
Diablo graphics are rudimentary
HyP/ot coordinates
Escr Escx
HyPlot six steps
Command
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HP LaserJet II Emulation Printer Commands
Esce
Epson EX-800 Emulation Printer Commands
BEL
Escf
IBM Proprinter Emulation Printer Commands
Can
Diablo 630 Emulation Printer Commands
Esclf
Esccrp
Escv
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Number Symbol Name Line Draw
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Roman Extension
1S0 25 French
Number Symbol Name HP German
1 I I.., t II 7 1 1 1
JIS Ascii
Number S Name y ECMA-94 Latin
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00OCR-A
Number Symbol Name OMath-8A 2 3 4 5 6
ISO 11 Swedish
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Bar Code 3
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Number Symbol Name Iiso 69 French
1S0 21 German
Number Symbol Name OCR-B
Number Symbol Name 1OCR-B
ID Number Symbol Name IQ Math-8B
Number Symbol Name
Number Symbol Name IU Legal 2 3 4 5 6 7 8
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Number Symbol Name Pi Font-A
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ID Number SymbolName 3s 1S0 10 Swedish 234567 192
ID Number SymbolName 4s 1S0 16 Portuguese 193
ID Number SymbolName 5s 1S0 84 Portuguese 194
ID Number SymbolName 6S ISO 85 Spanish 2 3 4 5 6
ID Number SymbolName 8M Math-8
ID Number SymbolName 8M Math-8 197
ID Number SymbolName IBM-PCSet 12345 198
ID Number SymbolName 8Q IBM-PCSet 199
ID Number SymbolName 8U Roman-8 2 3 4 5 6 B c
ID Number SymbolName 8U Roman-8 B c
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ID Number SymbolName 9Q IBM-PCExtension 203
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IBM-PCUS
ID Number SymbolName 1lQ ECMA-947-bit
ID Number SymbolName 1lU
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Auto Carriage Return command Diablo 630 mode,141
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Consumer Response
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