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Contents

SD-IO/l5 Trademark Acknowledgement Special Message To the New Owner Table of Contents Control Code Summary Italic Printing UnderliningChanging Length Top Bottom Margins Macro Instruction Commands Other Cleaning SD-lo/15 Replacing Ink Ribbon Fuse Print HeadSwitch 233 234 238 Functions of the Connector Signals225 Table of Tables What have WE HERE? Where Shall WE PUT IT? Figure l-l Printer Cover Page Snap lever Attach the paper separator Page Page Components and Controls Getting to Know Control panel Power switch Front and rear views of SD-15 Outi Paper Selection and Loading OK? Page Stopper Sprocket units to move freely right and left. so you can Flip the clamp levers forward. This aLlows the twoAlign them with the holes in the paper Pick up the top sheet, and feed it between the paper chute Paper being Fed up Through Bottom Printer Out You Position SD-15 Above the stack of fan-fold PaperPage Adjusting the GAP Ribbon Installation 11.SD-10/15’s self-test gives a preview of its capabilities SELF-TESTPage Getting Started Using Commercial Software Page Its Decimal Value Abbreviation of its namePage Page Some Basics about Basic Controlling SD- 1O/15 with Basic CMD4 NEW Lprint Testing RUN A program, this would look like this Command Syntax Used in this Manual Selecting the Right Software Mode Page Page Some Special Kinds of Text Printing Text Lprint CHR$27 4 Select NLQ 44LPRINT CHR$27 5 Select draft Use this program with Star mode to see italic characters It should come out like this Again, that’s simple. Let’s try it with this program Try this program to see them work Changing the Print Pitch Star modeOn one line because of the semicolons Lprint Expanded When you run this program you should get this C3r-h c-ar-bt i Here’s What You Should Get from this program Run this program. The results will look like this Making SD-IO/15 Print DarkerTry them now with this little program Control code Summary ESC Emphasized Off CHR$20 One line Expanded offExpanded ESC Off Double-strike Page Starting NEW Lines Line Spacing Forms Control Changing Line Spacing Return print head to left margin Star CHR$13Advance paperoneline Star 1CHR$lO IBM 1CHR!NlO This is what you will get Mode IBM modeRun the program again. Now the results will look like this Set line spacing to l/S inch Here is what SD-lo/l 5 will produce Forms Controls Changing the page Length ESC CHR$n TOP and Bottom Margi NSSet bottom margin Don’t CHR$ Page Here’s what will print Using Horizontal Tabs Chrso When you run the program now it produces this Demo margins Setting Left and Right Margins Using Vertical Tabs Lprint CHR$27 P CHR$l@ Lprint CHR$2@ CHR$4@ CHR$5Q CHR$@ CHR$ll ESC ‘Y CHR$nl Advance paper n lines Mode =cESC Set left margin ForCHR$11 Special Features ESC y Enable bell CHR$7 Disable bellSound bell CHR$7 Some miscellaneous commands Function Mode Control code Here is what this program will print Print in one direction Star ESC IBM ESC Star ESC = IBM ESC = Star ESC # IBM ESC # Next I Lprint Next J 131 144 154 164 134 194 Aq. t 214 f 224 ,x ESC 7 CHR$O International character setsESC R CHR$O 1STAR / ESC 7 CHR$l Snain I # I ‘0 Ne~53T1NC=iC3NEm -l-MO, T-t-iFEE Define macro ESC ESC + ..CHR$30 ESC ?,’ ESC ESC @ CHR$CHR$24 ESC Page DOT Matrix Printing Creating Your OWN Characters Print Matrix 00 0 Eooo Dotscan beinsideboxesorstraddletheverticallinesofthe Defining Your OWN Characters Use thisgridorone similarto itto defineyour own characters Page Wrong ~---~~ Characterdesignsforthethreegraphsymbols For IBM mode 000 1011 = Ildecimal 44READ MM Lprint CHR$MM Next M Next N Printing Download Characters Read MM Lprint CHR$MM Next 179LPRINT Defining Proportional Characters Erasing Download Character DefinitionsPage Read MY Lprint CHR$MM Next M Next N ESC 8~CHR$O Define download characterCopy ROM to download ESC 0 0 223456789 Read MS Eight Defines download character into RAM SummaryPage Printing with DOT Graphics Using the DOT Graphics Commands N2 is Next Lprint Printing a Design or Logo Page Data 0,0,0,0,1,3,7,7,7,15 Plotting with SD-IO/15 Next COL% If NX NY then NX = NY 113 620 ’ High Resolution Graphics 10-2 117 IS&S If YOU have Problems with Basic Master graphics selection for IBM mode Master graphics selection for Star mode