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 D
Set Horizontal Tabs
Format:
ASCII code:
ESC D nl
n2
. . . 0
Decimal:
27 68 nl
n2
. . . 0
Hexadecimal: 1B
44
nl
n2
. . . 00
Comments:
This command allows setting of up to
32
horizontal tabs, which are
entered as nl, n2, n3, etc. (from
l-255)
with the 0 code terminating
the command. The tab settings must be entered in ascending order;
ESC D 0 clears all tabs. The settings
on
power up or after an ESC @
command are every 8 characters. Tabs are set in the current cpi. The
tab settings do not change if the cpi is changed, and for proportional
printing the size of 10 cpi characters determines the tab positions.
Overall Printing Style
ESC x
Format:
ASCII code:
ESC
n
Decimal :
27
120 n
Hexadecimal: 1B 78 n
Select Letter Quality or Draft
Comments:
The following values can be used for n:
0: Selects the draft mode.
1: Selects the Letter Quality (LQ) mode.
Overrides the SelecType panel setting.
Command Summary
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