Printer User Manual
Table Of Contents
- FRONT MATTER
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAP 1-SETTING UP THE PRINTER
- CHAP 2-PAPER HANDLING
- CHAP 3-USING THE PRINTER
- CHAP 4-USING SOFTWARE AND GRAPHICS
- Using the LQ-2550 With Application Programs
- Computer-Printer Communication
- Enhancing Your Printing
- Graphics
- User-Defined Characters
- Designing Your Characters
- Design Grids
- Data Numbers
- Sending Information to Your Printer
- Printing User-Defined Characters
- Copying ROM Characters to RAM
- Letter Quality Characters
- Proportional Mode Characters
- Superscripts and Subscripts
- The Graphics Command
- Column Reservation Numbers
- A simple Graphics Program
- Using Hand-Calculated Data to Print Graphics
- Using Software and Graphics
- Mixing Print Styles
- CHAP 5-MAINTENANCE AND TRANSPORTATION
- CHAP 6-TROUBLESHOOTING
- Troubleshooting
- Problems and Solutions
- The Printer Does Not Print
- The Printer Stops Printing
- The Printout is Spaced Incorrectly
- The Printout is Faint or Uneven
- The Printout is Not what You Expect
- Single Sheets Do Not Feed Properly
- Continuous Paper Does Not Feed Properly
- Cut Sheet Feeder Does Not Load Paper Correctly
- The Short Tear-Off Feature Does Not Work Properly
- Color Printing Is Not What You Expect
- Data Dump Mode
- CHAP 7-USING PRINTER OPTIONS
- CHAP 8-COMMAND SUMMARY
- APPENDIX A-TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- GLOSSARY
- INDEX
Feature
Dec.
10 cpi
0
Hex.
00
12 cpi
1
01
proportional
2
02
condensed
4 04
emphasized
8 08
double-strike
16
10
double-wide
32 20
italics
64
40
underline
128 80
For example, to print a title, you may want to use double-wide 12
cpi characters and print them in double-strike mode. You add three
numbers together to calculate the value of
IZ:
12
cpi
1
Double-strike 16
Double-wide
32
n
= 49
After calculating the value of
IZ,
you use the Master Select command
to send the value to the printer.
ASCII:
ESC !
1
Decimal: 27 33 49
Hexadecimal:
1B
21 31
The print quality and font must be set separately, either using
SelecType or the ESC x and ESC k commands. There are two more
things to consider when using the Master Select command:
l Master Select cancels any of the listed features that you do not
try to set. For example, if you have already set a character size
other than 10 cpi and you use Master Select to set emphasized
double-strike, the character width is reset to 10 cpi.
l Proportional overrides 10, 12, and 15 cpi.
Using Software and Graphics