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DEFINING YOUR OWN NLQ CHARACTERS

As you probablynoticed,NLQ charactersare printedby two passesof the printhead.Halfofthecharacterisprintedonthefirstpass,andtheremainder onthesecondpass.Thepaperis rolleduphalfa dotheightinbetweenpasses to let the printhead printdotson the secondpass that overlapthe previous dots,in otier to fill in the spacesand producedensercharacters.Addition- ally,tie print head speed is halved,and the dots are printed at doublethe densityof draft characters.For this reason,NLQ characterscan containup to 23 dots in the horizontaldirection.

Fundamentally,theprocessto defineandprintdownloadedNLQ character is the same as for draft charactem,exceptthat youmust supplyaboutfour timesasmuchcharacterdata,andyoumustdesignthecharacterwiththe?SVO passes of the print head in mind. There are small diffextmceswith the standardmode in the way the attributeinformationis processedalso.

In the draft qualitymodethe attributebyte carriesthe descenderdata, and specifiesthe left spaceandthe characterwidth.In the NLQ mode,the first bit also carries the descenderdata, and the next three bits describe the character’sleft space as with the draft charactem,but the last four bits describethe right space.Appropriateallocationof data in these sevenbits lets you place the character whe~ you like within the grid, with the nxtrictionthat the charactermust be at least 9 dots wide.

Usethe gridin Figure5-4 to helpplotthedata.Dueto thetwo-passprocess, NLQcharacterscan containup to 16dotsvertically.ml to m23 arethe data for the first pass, and m24 to m46 are the data for the secondpass.

To makethe characterdataeasierto calculate,put the first pass dotsinside theboxesonthegridwhenyouaredesigningyourcharacters,andthesecond passdotson the lines.Rememberthat adjacentdotsmay not overlapon the samepass;in otherwords,if onedotis in a box,its adjacentdoton the same passmaynotbeon aline.l%erefom,to makesmoothcharactm, putthedots neededto overlapany spacesin a characterin the appropriateplacesin the secondpass grid.

If weplotourcar-shapedsymbolforNLQ,thegriddatawilllooklikeFigure 5-5.

Thedefiningprocessisthesameas fordraftcharacters,exceptthatyoumust selectNLQ mode, and you must define46 data. If you wish to print your NLQ characterswith the regularcharacterset, the remarks regardingthe

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NX-1001 specifications

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