character uses the top eight dots, write in a one next to the word “Descender” on the layout grid; if it uses the bottom eight dots, write in a zero. In our example, we’ll want the bottom of the flask to line up with the baseline of the other characters, so it will not be a descender. As shown in Figure 9-5, we’ve written in a “1” on our grid.

120

ASCII Code

64

Descender 1

32

Start column

End column

16

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be a descender, hence the “1” written in.

nRule 2: Dots cannot overlap

As you can see in Figure 9-5 our flask has a nearly continuous outline. But, you may ask, why not make it a reaZly solid line and print all the intermediate dots, as shown in Figure 9-6? Be- cause the dots that straddle the vertical lines in the grid actually overlap those inside the boxes. If we tried to print overlapping dots, the SG- lo/l5 printhead would have to slow down and back up to print both dots-not very efficient! To avoid this inefficiency, SG-lo/15 will not allow you to define a character like Figure 9-6. (Actually, you can define it, but when it prints, SG-lo/15 will leave out the overlapping dots, so that it would print like Figure 9-5.)

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