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 k
Select Typestyle Family
Format:
ASCII code:
ESC k n
Decimal:
27
107 n
Hexadecimal: 1B 6B n
Comments:
This command affects only the Letter Quality typestyle, not draft. If
n = 0, the Roman typestyle in the printer is used. To select one of the
four other typestyles, use the family number of the font shown below.
For example, to choose the Prestige font, use 3 for n.
The following values can be used for n:
0 = Roman
1 = Sans Serif
2
= Courier
3 = Prestige
4 = Script
5
= OCR-B
6
= OCR-A
7=Orator (Optional)
8=Orator-S (Optional)
Overrides the SelecType setting.
ESC !
Master Select
Format:
ASCII code:
ESC ! n
Decimal :
27 33 n
Hexadecimal: 1B 21 n
Comments:
Selects
any
valid combination of the following modes: 10 cpi, 12 cpi,
proportional, condensed, emphasized, double-strike, double-wide,
italic, and underline. For details on how to set n, see the section on
selecting typestyles with Master Select in Chapter 4.
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Command Summary