Star Micronics LC-15 Stay in panel style, Stay in panel pitch and style, Hexadecimaldump

Stay in panel style

If held down duringpower-up,the (ST@ buttonpreventssoftwareinter- ferencewiththe fontstyleselectedfromthe controlpanel.There willbean acknowledgingbeep, after whichyou can set the printer off-line,select a fontstyle,thenreturnto theon-linestateandstartprinting.The selectedfont style will not be changedby any commandssentby software.

Stay in panel pitch and style

If you wantto protectboth the pitch and font style settingsfrom software changes,pressthe@iTiX!landGF7iT3buttonsduringpower-up.Therewill be a littlelong acknowledgingbeep.

Pressingthesebuttonsduringpower-updoesnot preventyou frommaking any numberof changeslater from the controlpanel.

Hexadecimaldump

This feature is useftd for programmed who are debuggingprinting pro- grams and want to see the actual codes the printer is receiving. (Some computemchangethe codes the programmerintended.)

Inthismode,allreceiveddatawillbeprintedin ahexadecimaldumpformat, ratherthan the controlcodes being actedon as commandcodes.

This mode is accessedwith the followingprocedure:

1.Holdingboth the (PAPER FEED) and ( ‘EJ!MCT>buttons down,turn power ON. A beep tone will be heard.

2.Start printing.In place of the usual printoutyou will get a formatted dumpshowingexactlywhatdatatheprinterreceives.Eachlinepresents sixteen charactem,their hexadecimalcodes to the left and printable character printedon the right.

3.At the end of the hexadecimaldump, set the printer off-line with the ( ON LINE )button. This is necessaryto printthe last line.

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