SD-IO/l5
Trademark Acknowledgement
Special Message To the New Owner
Table of Contents
Control Code Summary
Italic Printing Underlining
Changing Length Top Bottom Margins
Macro Instruction Commands Other
Cleaning SD-lo/15 Replacing Ink Ribbon Fuse Print Head
Switch
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Functions of the Connector Signals
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Table of Tables
What have WE HERE?
Where Shall WE PUT IT?
Figure l-l
Printer Cover
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Snap lever
Attach the paper separator
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Components and Controls
Getting to Know
Control panel Power switch
Front and rear views of SD-15
Outi
Paper Selection and Loading
OK?
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Stopper
Pick up the top sheet, and feed it between the paper chute
Flip the clamp levers forward. This aLlows the two
Sprocket units to move freely right and left. so you can
Align them with the holes in the paper
Paper being Fed up Through Bottom Printer Out
You Position SD-15 Above the stack of fan-fold Paper
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Adjusting the GAP
Ribbon Installation
11.SD-10/15’s self-test gives a preview of its capabilities
SELF-TEST
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Getting Started
Using Commercial Software
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Its Decimal Value
Abbreviation of its name
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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
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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 mode
On one line because of the semicolons
Lprint Expanded
When you run this program you should get this
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Here’s What You Should Get from this program
Run this program. The results will look like this
Making SD-IO/15 Print Darker
Try them now with this little program
Control code
Summary
ESC Emphasized Off
CHR$20 One line Expanded off
Expanded ESC Off Double-strike
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Starting NEW Lines
Line Spacing Forms Control
Changing Line Spacing
Return print head to left margin Star CHR$13
Advance paperoneline Star 1CHR$lO IBM 1CHR!NlO
This is what you will get
Mode
IBM mode
Run 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$n
TOP and Bottom Margi NS
Set bottom margin
Don’t
CHR$
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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 For
CHR$11
Special Features
CHR$7
CHR$7 Disable bell
ESC y Enable bell
Sound bell
Some miscellaneous commands Function Mode Control code
Here is what this program will print
Print in one direction
Star ESC IBM ESC Star ESC = IBM ESC = Star ESC # IBM ESC #
Next I Lprint Next J
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1STAR / ESC 7 CHR$l
International character sets
ESC 7 CHR$O
ESC R CHR$O
Snain I # I ‘0
Ne~53T1NC=iC3NEm -l-MO, T-t-iFEE
Define macro
ESC ESC + ..CHR$30 ESC ?,’
ESC ESC @ CHR$
CHR$24 ESC
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DOT Matrix Printing
Creating Your OWN Characters
Print Matrix
00 0 Eooo
Dotscan beinsideboxesorstraddletheverticallinesofthe
Defining Your OWN Characters
Use thisgridorone similarto itto defineyour own characters
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Characterdesignsforthethreegraphsymbols
For IBM mode
000 1011 = Ildecimal
44READ MM Lprint CHR$MM Next M Next N
Printing Download Characters
Read MM Lprint CHR$MM
Next 179LPRINT
Defining Proportional Characters
Erasing Download Character Definitions
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Read MY Lprint CHR$MM Next M Next N
ESC 0 0
Define download character
ESC 8~CHR$O
Copy ROM to download
223456789
Read MS
Eight
Defines download character into RAM
Summary
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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 IBM mode
Master graphics selection for Star mode