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