Printer User Manual

the character. By varying the width of the character itself and the spaces
around it, you can create proportional-width characters that print at
draft speed.
The table below shows the maximum values for these bytes.
The last part of the character definition is the actual data that defines the
dot patterns for each character. Since it takes three bytes to specify the
dots in one vertical column of dots, your printer expects dl x 3 bytes of
data to follow dz.
An example character definition program should make this clear:
10 LPRINT CHR$(27)"x0"
20 LPRINT CHR$(27)"&"CHR$(0);
30 LPRINT "@@";
40 LPRINT CHR$(l)CHR$(9)CHR$(l);
50 FOR I=1 TO 27
60 READ A: LPRINT CHR$(A);
70 NEXT I
80 LPRINT "@@@@@"
90 LPRINT CHR$(27)"%"CHR$(l);
100 LPRINT "@@@@@"
110 LPRINT CHR$(27)"%"CHR$(0);
120 LPRINT "@@@@@"
130 END
140 DATA 1,0,0,2,0,0,4,0,0
150 DATA 8,0,0,23,255,240,8,0,0
160 DATA 4,0,0~,0,0,~0,0
In line 10, the ESC x0 command selects draft style printing.
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