Star Micronics NX-2415II user manual Defining Your Own Characters With Ibm Mode

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DEFINING YOUR OWN CHARACTERS WITH IBM MODE

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when printing a character. Index Table data is placed in a “lookup table” that provides information on where Dot Pattern data is stored in memory and defines certain attributes of the character.

Assigning the download character set

You can define one or more download character sets for later use in IBM mode.

Before you start to design your characters, you must define what character set(s) you want to download.

The character width on which you design the characters depends upon the character set as shown below:

Character set	Character width	Character ID
Draft characters	9	0
LQ pica characters	35	1
elite characters	29	2
LQ proportional	17 to 41	3

After you have decided your download character set, you must tell the printer where the download character data ii”tobe stored, and how many download character sets you will define.

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This Format byte indicates to the printer that the RAM is to store the download character set.

Following the format byte, you must enter the Character ID data. If you want to define more character sets, add 128 to the Character ID data.

The second area startsfrom <8911>h, the third area startsfrom <92 12>h,and the last area starts from <9B 13>h. But you need not enter a Format byte for these areas.