Star Micronics 8 Series manual Printer emulations, What are the emulated printers like?

Printer emulations

OK, you’vegot your pnntcr and computerconncctcdproperly.Now Ict’s focuson how yourpnntcr works.

Your Star LaserPrintcr 8 understands and uscs the same commands as several earlier kinds of pnntcrs. Your printer works by emulating onc of these:

● Hewlett-Packard LaserJet series H	● Xerox Diablo 630
● Epson EX-800	c IBM Propnntcr

Otherlaserprintersmayoffer suchemulationstoo, butoften requireinstal- lation of a ncw circuitboard for each emulation.Star Micronicshas built these four emulationsinto the Star LaserPnntcr8.

You select which emulation you want either by sclccling it from the print program menu on the Star LascrPnnter 8’s front panel, or by sending the pnntcr onc of the supcrsct commands at the cnd of this chapter.

What are the emulated printers like?

Mostof the timeyou willprobablychooseHPLaserJetseries11emulation, whichis thedefaultwhenyouturnontheStarLaserPrintcr8.That’sbecause the LaserJetseries H, like the Star LaserPrinter8, is a laser printer. This cmulationmodegivesyouthebestcontrolover yourpnntcr’s features,and works with most popularapplicationsprograms.

The EX-800emulationis quitepowerfultoo. It includesall the dot-matrix pnntcr commands (includinggraphics) used by hundreds of programs. Mmtly, you’llchoosethisoptionwhenyourun a programthatcannotsend laser printercommands.

TheProprintcr,a dot-matrixprinterliketheEX-800,has asimilarcommand set. You likelywillopt for Proprintcremulationonlywhenyouwantto use computer programs spccilically designed for the Propnntcr and IBM computerenvironment.

Whenyou wantto emulatea daisywheelpnntcr you will preferthe Diablo emulation.You may also choose this if you use an older text processing programthat can’tccntcr or justify its printing;Diabloprintercommands can look after thosethingsfor you.

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