DOWNLOAD CHARACTER COMMANDS

Define download characters

Mode

ASCII

 

 

 

 

Decimal

 

 

Hexadecimal

 

 

cESC>

“8~” CO> nl

 

27

38

0

nl

 

IB

26

00 nl

 

Std.

n2

m0

ml

m2

n2mOmlm2

 

n2mOmlm2

 

 

 

dl

d2

. . .

dr

 

dl

d2

. . .

dr

 

dl

d2

..,

dx

 

cESC>

“=”

cO>

nl

 

27

61

0

nl

 

1B

3D

CO

nl

 

IBM

n2

m0

ml

m2

n2mOmlm2

 

n2mOmlm2

 

 

 

dl

d2

. . .

dx

 

dl

d2

. . .

a!x

 

dl

d2

.

dx

Defines one or more new 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 ignored.

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 33 and 254. nl must be equal to or less than n2. Use of character codes 32 (space) and 127 (delete code) should be avoided if possible. The data for each character start with three bytes specifying propottional spacing attributes: the first byte, mO, speci- fies the left of the character; the second byte, ml, specifies the character width; the third byte, m2, specifies the right of the character. These values must not exceed the following maximum limits:

 

Character mode

ml

mOtmltm2

,

Draft characters

9

12

 

LQ pica characters

29

36

 

LQ elite characters

23

30

 

LQ semi-condensed

15

24

 

LQ proportional

37

42

 

Draft super/subscripts

7

12

 

LQ super/subscripts

23

36

 

LQ prop. super/subscripts

23

42

Next comes the dot data. Normal character height is 24 dots, so there must be 3 x ml bytes of dot data. If the printer is in super/subscript mode, however, the character height is 16 dots, so there must be 2 x ml bytes of dot data.

Each data byte indicates eight verical dots, with the MSB being the top dot and the LSB the bottom dot.

For further details, please refer to chapter 5.

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Star Micronics LC24-15 user manual Define download characters

LC24-15 specifications

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