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 \
Set Relative Print Position
Format:
ASCII code:
ESC 1 nl n2
Decimal:
27 92 nl n2
Hexadecimal: 1B 5C
n7
n2
Comments:
Determines the position (relative to the current position) at
which
printing of following data will start. To find
nl
and
YL?,
first calculate the
displacement required in dots. If the displacement is to the left, subtract
it from 65536. Send the resulting number using this formula: total
number of dots = nl + (256 X
n2).
The command is ignored if it
would move the print position outside the current margins. A unit is
1/120th of an inch in draft and 1/180th of an inch in Letter Quality or
proportional.
Horizontal tabbing
HT
Format:
ASCII code: HT
Decimal :
9
Hexadecimal: 09
Tab Horizontally
Comments:
Advances the print position to the next horizontal tab setting. The
default settings are at intervals of 8 characters in the currently selected
character spacing.
8-20
Command Summary