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
ESC /
Select Vertical Tab Channel
Format:
ASCII code:
ESC / c
Decimal:
27 47 c
Hexadecimal: 1B 2F c
Comments:
This command is used to select the vertical tab channel, with the value
of c from
0-7.
All subsequent VT commands use the channel selected
by this command.
Horizontal Motion
Margins
ESC l
Format:
ASCII code:
ESC 1 n
Decimal:
27
108 n
Hexadecimal: 1B 6C n
Set Left Margin
Comments:
Sets the left margin to n columns in the current character size. Settings
made in the proportional mode are treated as 10 cpi. Use lowercase 1
(as in left), not the numeral one. The minimum space between the
margins is the width of one double-wide 10 cpi character.
ESC Q
Set Right Margin
Format:
ASCII code:
ESC Q n
Decimal:
27 81 n
Hexadecimal: 1B 51 n
Comments:
Sets the
right
margin to n columns in the current character spacing.
Settings made in the proportional mode are treated as 10 cpi. The
minimum space between the margins is the width of one double-wide
10 cpi character.
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Command Summary