Star Micronics LC-IOII user manual Print g-pin graphics, Download Character Commands

Print g-pin graphics

Mode

ASCII

Decimal

Hexadecimal

Std.

cESC>

“A”

n0

nl

27

94

no nl

1B

5E

n0

nl

n2

ml

m2

.

n2

ml

m2 ...

n2 ml

m2

Prints bit-image graphics at 60 dots per inch if no = 0 or 120 dots per

inch if no = 1. The graphics image is 9 dots high and nl + n2 x 256 dots

wide. Maximum width is 8 inches. Dots beyond the right margin are

ignored. ml, m.?, ... are byte pairs representing 9 vertical dots each. In

the leftmost position, the most significant bit of ml is the top dot; the

least significant bit of ml is the second dot from the bottom; the most

significant bit of m2 is the bottom dot; and the other bits of m2 are ignored.

Other byte

pairs

are similar.

The number

of data

bytes

must

be

2 x (nl

_

+n,? x 256). At the end of bit-image printing the printer returns auto- matically to character mode.

DOWNLOAD CHARACTER COMMANDS

Copy standard characters from ROM into RAM

Mode	ASCII						Decimal			Hexadecimal
Std.	< ESC >	‘I:”	<O>	<O>	<O>	27	58	0	0	0 lB3A	00	0000
IBM	< FS >	“:”	<O>	<O>	<O>	28	58	0	0	OlC3A	00	0000

Copies all the standard characters to the corresponding download char- acter RAM area, overwriting any download data already present. Ignored when DIP switch 2-l is ON.

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_.

Define

draft

download

characters

Mode

ASCII

Decimal

Hexadecimal

<ESC>

“&”

CO>

nl

27 38

0 nl

IB

26

00

nl

Both

n2

m0 ml

m2

n2 m0

ml

m2

n2 m0 ml

m2

m3... ml1

m3...mlI

m3...mII

Defines

one or more new draft

characters

and

stores

them

in RAM for

-

later use. DIP switch 2-l must be OFF; otherwise RAM is used as an

input buffer, not for downloading characters, and this command is ig-

nored. Draft mode must be selected before this command is executed.

nl is the character code of the first character defined and n2 is the character

code of the last character defined. nl and n2 must both be between 32

and 127 or both be between 160 and 255. nl must be equal to or less than

n2. Use

of character

codes 32

(space) and

127 (delete

code) should be

avoided

if possible.

Each character is defined by an attribute byte (mo) and 11 data bytes

(ml, m2 ,..... mll).

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