DOWNLOAD CHARACTER COMMANDS

Define download characters

Mode

ASCII

 

 

 

Decimal

 

 

Hexadecimal

 

 

<ESC>

“8~” <O>

nl

27

38

0 nl

16

26

00 nl

 

Std.

n2

m0

ml

m2

n2

m0

ml

m2

n2

m0

ml

m2

 

 

dl

d2

 

dx

dl d2

.. . dx

 

dl

d2 .

dx

Defines one or more new characters and stores them in RAM for later use. EDS switch A-2 must be OFF; otherwise RAM is used as

an input buffer, not downloading characters, and this command is - ignored.

nZ is the character code of the first character defined and n2 is the character code of the last character defined. nZ must be equal to or less than n2.

The data for each character start with three bytes specifying propor- tional spacing attributes: the first byte, m0, specifies 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:

-

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 vertical dots, with the most signifi- cant bit being the top dot, and the least significant bit being the bottom dot.

For further details, please refer to chapter 5.

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Star Micronics NX-2420 user manual Define download characters

NX-2420 specifications

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