Tally Genicom Matrix Printer manual Defining Character 9 Needle Printer, Columns

Defining Character (9 Needle Printer)

Each downloaded character is defined in a matrix field of 9 rows high and 12 columns wide.

It is only possible to use column 1 up to column 11. Column 12 is the space between one character and the next. Therefore it is always left blank by automatically setting dots in column 12 to zero.

Also, only 8 of 9 dots in any one column can be

COLUMNS

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12

8

7

R 6

O

W 5

S 4

3

2

1

0

COLUMNS

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11

128

64

R 32

printed (see also “Descenders”).

O

W

16

Each column is defined by a single byte where each row in that column corresponds to the LSB (dec.1) and the top row to the MSB (dec.128).

S 8

4

2

1

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