Star Micronics NX-10 user manual M, m. m, m, m, mRmp m,,. m

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So add up the values of the dots in each column using this system. In Figure 6-8 we’ve shown our grid with the sums of the columns filled in across the bottom (see if these agree with your answers!). Across the top of the grid you’ve probably noticed the cryptic labeling of each column: ml, m2, m3, etc. These labels correspond to the labels in the command syntax state- ment, which we’ll get to shortly.

	m. m, m, m. m, m, m, mRmp m,,. m,,
128	ASCII Code
64	Descender
32	Start column
	End column
16

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M, = Descender * 128 + (Start * 16) + Enc

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pigure 6-8. Add the values of the dots in each column and write the sum of each column at the bottom.

nAssigning a value to your character

We’ve done a pretty through job of designing and describing a

user-defined character. But this printer has room for 96 download characters - how does it knows which standard character we want to print: every character is assigned a unique number.

The standard characters are assigned the ASCII codes - numbers from 0 to 255. For the download character sets you can also define any positions between 0 to 225. This means that once a character is defined and assigned a value (and the download character set is selected, you can use that character on the printer the same way you would any standard character. You can send the character with the same ASCII value. You can