Form feed control codes

.39

 

 

Margins and vertical tab setting control codes

.4 1

 

 

Horizontal print position control codes

.44

 

 

Downloaded character control codes.. ...................................... .48

 

 

Graphics

.52

 

 

Miscellaneous

codes

.55

 

 

ASCII command sequences.. .................................................... .63

Chapter

5

DIP SWITCHES

67

Chapter

6

TROUBLESHOOTING AND MAINTENANCE

69

 

 

TROUBLESHOOTING

.69

 

 

Power supply

............................................................................

.70

 

 

Printing

.70

 

 

Paper feeding

............................................................................

.72

 

 

MAINTENANCE

.75

 

 

ADJUSTING THE PRINTING GAP

.75

 

 

RIBBON REPLACEMENT.. ....................................................... .76

 

 

REPLACING THE PRINT HEAD

.78

 

 

FRONT PANEL DIAGNOSTIC AND

 

 

 

TEST MODES

.............................................................................

.80

 

 

Short test mode

.80

 

 

Long test mode

.8 1

 

 

Text test mode

.82

 

 

Hexadecimal dump mode

.83

 

 

Bidirectional

test/adjustment mode

.84

Chapter 7 MS-DOS AND YOUR PRINTER

87

 

 

INSTALLING APPLICATION SOFTWARE

 

 

 

WITH YOUR PRINTER

87

 

 

GRAPHICS HARD COPY

.89

 

 

SETTING UP THE PRINTER FROM THE DOS PROMPT ....

..89

 

 

PROGRAMMING USING BASIC

.90

 

 

Sample program

.90

 

 

How the program works

.93

 

 

Patches necessary to use the BASIC interpreter.. ..................... .96

Chapter

8

SPECIFICATIONS

97

Chapter

9

CHARACTER

SETS

101

 

 

STANDARD CHARACTER SET #l

102

 

 

STANDARD CHARACTER SET #2.. ....................................... 104

 

 

IBM CHARACTER SET #2

105

 

 

IMB CHARACTER SET #l

107

 

 

ADDITIONAL

CHARACTER SET

108

 

 

INTERNATIONAL CHARACTER SETS

109

INDEX

 

 

 

111

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XR-1000, XR-1500 specifications

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