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Star Micronics LC-20 Setpage length ton lines, Setpage length ton inches, Set bottommargin, Cancelbottommargin

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Setpage length ton lines

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Both <ESC> “C” n27 67 nIB 43 n

Setsthe pagelengthto nlines inthe currentlinespacing,wheren

isbetween1and 127inStandardmodeorbetween1and255inIBM

mode.Changingthe line spacinglater doesnot alter the physical

pagelength.The currentlinebecomesthe topof the page.

Setpage length ton inches

Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal

Both cESC> “C” cO> n27 67 0 n IB 43 00 n

Setsthe page lengthto ninches,where nis between 1and 32 in

Standardmodeorbetween1and 64in IBMmode.Thecurrentline

becomesthetop of the page.

Set bottommargin

Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal

Both <ESC> “N” n27 78 nIB 4E n

Setsthe bottommarginto nlines,where nisbetween1and 127in

Standardmodeor between 1and255 in IBM mode.The bottom

marginis resetwhen youchangethe pagelength.

Cancelbottommargin

Mode ASCII Decimal Hexadecimal

Both <ESC> “O” 27 79 IB 4F

Cancelsthebottommargin.

Contents

Main @Copyright1990StarMicronicsCo., Ltd. HOW TO USE THIS MANUAL Page FEATURES OF THE PRINTER TABLE OF CONTENTS Page Page chapter 1 SETTING UP THE PRINTER LOCATING THE PRINTER I UNPACKINGAND INSPECTION Checkthe carton contents Partsname of theprinter SETIWJGUP Mountthe platenknob lnsta//the ribboncartridge Page Ih~,.kribbo. \!j$ 06 & Automaticloading Page Manualloading LOADING AND PARKING FANFOLD FORMS Loadingthepaper Page Page Paperparking Paperunparking ADJUSTING THE PRINTING GAP Page chapter2 CONTROL PANEL OPERATIONS BUTTONS AND INDICATORS The ONL/NE button PAPERFEEDbutton PITCHbutton FONTbutton POWER-UP FUNCTIONS Il:,:;,:a,:,t[lTyj,gJ,,,,, Shorttest mode Longtest mode Stayin panelpitch Stayin panel font Stayin panelpitch and font Hexadecimaldump Page SWITCH COMBINATION FUNCTIONS m Formfeed PaperParking Topof form Forwardmicro-feed Reversemicro-feed Clearingthe buffer Page chapter 3DIP SWITCH SETTINGS e LOCATION OF THE DIP SWITCHES FUNCTIONS OF THE DIP SWITCHES Page Page chapter PRINTER CONTROL COMMANDS FONT CONTROL COMMANDS Selectdraft qualitycharacters Selectdraft elite characters SelectNLQ characters SelectNLQ font Se!ectCouriercharacters SelectSanserif characters SelectOrator characterswithsmall capitals SelectOrator characterswithlower case Selectitalic characters SelectNLQ italic characters Selectupright characters Emphasizedprinting Cancelemphasjzedprjntjng Double-strikeprinting Canceldouble-strikeprinting Startunderlining Stopunderlining Startoverlining Stopoverlining Superscript Subscript Cancelsuperscriptor subscript CHARACTER SETCOMMANDS Selectstandardcharacterset SelectIBM characterset Selectcharacterset #1 Select Enableprintingof all character codes Enable printing of all character codes on next character I Selectslash zero std. Selectnormal zero std. Condensedprinting Cancelcondensedprinting Expandedprinting Cancelexpandedprinting Expandedprintingfor one /ine r <so> Cancelone-lineexpandedprinting Selectproportionalspacing std. Selectmasterprint mode std. Increasecharacterspacing std. Selectdouble or quadruplesize Selectcharacter size Printdouble-heightcharacters sid. Returnto normalheight std. Selectcharacterheight, width,and line spacing VERTICAL POSITION COMMANDS Setline spacing to 1/8inch Setline spacing to 7Y72inch Setline spacing to 1/6inch std. dzsc> 2 27 WI IB 32 Set line spacingto ~/216inch Set line spacingto n/72inch Execute<ESC> A Linefeed Reverseline feed std. Performone n/216-imh line feed Performone n/216-inchreverseline feed std. Feedpaper nlines std. Setpage length ton lines Setpage length ton inches Set bottommargin Cancelbottommargin Formfeed Returnto top of currentpage std. Disablepaper-outdetector Enablepaper-outdetector Set verticaltab stops Set verticaltab stopseveryn lines std. Set verticaltab stopsin channel std. Verticaltab HORIZONTAL POSITION COMMANDS Set left margin std. Setright margin Set leftand right margins Carriagereturn Setautomatic line feed Cancelautomaticline feed Backspace Leftjustify std. Rightjustify std. Sethorizontal tabstops Sethorizontal tabstops everyn columns std. Horizontaltab Relativehorizontaltab Absolutehorizontaltab in inches Absolutehorizontaltab in columns GRAPHICS COMMANDS Printnormal-density8-bitgraphics Printdouble-density8-bitgraphics Printdouble-density,double-speed8-bitgraphics Printquadruple-density8-bitgraphics Selectgraphicsmode Convertgraphicsdensity IStd. I<ESC> ? nmI27 MnmIIB 3F nm Print9-pin graphics DOWNLOAD CHARACTER COMMANDS Definedraft downloadcharacters DefineNLQ downloadcharacters std. drno ml m2 d d ml ddmo ml d Definedraft downloadcharacters DefineNLQ downloadcharacters Copycharacterset from ROMinto RAM sid. <ESC> : <O> n<o> 27 56 0 n OIB 3A 00 n 00 Selectdownloadcharacterset std. Selectdraft downloadcharacterset Selectdraft elite downloadcharacterset SelectNLQ downloadcharacterset SelectROM characterset std. Set MSBto 1 std. Set MSBto O std. AcceptMSB as is Quietprint Cancelquietprint Setprinter off-line std. Setprinter on-line Bell Bidirectionalprinting Unidirectiona/printing One-1ineunidirectionalprinting Manualfeed Auto feed Ejectpaper fromASF Setprint start positiononASF Resetprinter chapter 5 DOWNLOAD CHARACTERS DESIGNING YOUR OWN DRAFT CHARACTERS I Definingthe attributedata Page Page LLlEL EX DEFINING YOUR OWN NLQ CHARACTERS 75 Page chapter 6 MS-DOS AND YOUR PRINTER INSTALLING APPLICATION SOFTWARE WITH YOUR PRINTER EMBEDDING PRINTER COMMANDS PRINTER COMMANDS PROGRAMMING THE PRINTER WITH DOS COMMANDS Page PROGRAMMING WITH BASIC Page *;CHR.$(B); Select *;CHR$(B); 84 Page pw w l c c Ihub 1es ized, Q i . Page c 7 AND MAINTENANCE TROUBLESHOOTING Ps If thePOWER indicatordoes notilluminate,checkthe following: P Ifyour printerdoesnot print,or suddenlystopsprinting,checkthe follow- ing: If theprint is faint,or uneven,checkthe following: If dotsare missingin the printing,checkthe following: sistentlythroughoutthe ptiting? If yourapplicationsoftwarecannot printthe fonts or charactersselected, checkthe following: Ifthe printoutis not whatis expected: Pf If cut sheetpaper (withoutthe ASF) is not feeding smoothly,check the 92 i . . r If the ASF is not operatingor is not feeding paper correctly,check the Ifthe paperparkfacilitydoesnot appeartobe workingcorrectly,checkthe Check Possibleremedy Isthepaperreleaseleverin Thepaperreleaselevermustbesetto the ~position If Ifthepagelengthandmarginsarenot whatisexpected,checkthefollowing: MAINTENANCE REPLACING THE PRINT HEAD Page Page Page c 8 ( Page WND 102 I2IDATAO IHi~hwhenactive I ~ I c 9 I ~ L Page Page Page INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER SETS IBM CHARACTER SET #2 B% -G ix _ x h Page -b - Page Page INDEX m ml m L D1 COMMAND SUMMARY IBM std. IBM <HT> <LF> <VT> <FF> Form < Irr <me> 6: nCc <Esc> <E %M <m,c>p Selectdraftqualitycharacters SelectNLQcharacters