Select download/standard character set

Both

cESC>%<n>

1Bh25h<n>

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37

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The command above selects either the standard or downloaded character set, where 01> is a binary value (OOhor Olh) or an ASCII value (“0” or”1”). If cn> equals OOh or “0”, the standard character set is selected. This is the default value at power-on. If Olh or “1” has been selected, then the downloaded character set is selected.

Graphics

The following commands relate to the graphical capabilities of the printer (bit image mode). All bit-image printing is carried out as raster graphics (ie data is accepted in blocks, and then printed as adjacent lines of graphics one dot wide).

Select bit image mode

 

 

 

Both

<ESC>

*

On>

cno>

al>

<do>

 

...

ain>

 

 

 

 

1Bh

2Ah

-an>

cnb

al>

<do>

.,.

-ain>

 

 

 

 

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On>

<no>

all>

-do>

...

ain>

 

 

 

 

The command above selects one of the graphic modes available on the printer and prints graphic data, where on> is a binary value representing the graphics mode (see table below), and cnO> and al> are binary values (low byte first) giving the number

of graphic data bytes following (as represented by uio> . . . cdru)The.actual number of data bytes varies according to the graphic mode chosen. The number of data bytes is equal to the number of graphic columns to be printed.

[Graphic print modes]

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* Adjacent dots are not printable in this mode.

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XR-1000, XR-1500 specifications

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