Star Micronics NX-1000 manual Print O-pin graphics, Copy standard characters from ROM into RAM

Print O-pin graphics

IModel ASCII			I	Decimal		1	Hexadecimal		I
<ESC >	“n”	nO nl	27	94	nO nl	1B	5E	n0 nl
Std.	ml	m2		n2 ml	m2 .__	n2 ml		m2	___
n2

Prints bit-image graphics at 60 dots per inch if n0 = 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, m2, . 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 (nr

+n2 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 >	“:”	CO>	<O>	<O>	27	58	0	0	0	lB3A	00	0000
IBM	< FS >	“:‘I	CO>	<O>	<O>	28	58	0	0	0	IC 3A	00	00 00

Copies all the standard characters to the corresponding download char- acter RAM area, overwriting any download data already present. Ignored when DIP switch 2-1 is ON.

Define draft download characters

Mode

ASCII

Decimal

Hexadecimal

<ESC>

“SC”

CO>

nl

27

38

0

nl

IB

26

00

nl

Both

I

n2

m0

ml

m2

n2 m0

ml

m2

n2 m0

ml

m2

I

m3...

ml1

m3...mll

m3...mll

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 (m0) and 11 data bytes (ml, m2,..... mll).