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 Y
Select High-Speed Double-Density Graphics Mode
Format:
ASCII code:
ESC Y nl
n2
Decimal:
27 89
nl
n2
Hexadecimal: 1B 59 nl
n2
Comments:
Turns on 8-pin, high-speed, double-density graphics mode. The total
number of columns = n3 +
(n2
X 256).
ESC Z
Select Quadruple-Density Graphics Mode
Format:
ASCII code:
ESC Z
nl
n.2
Decimal :
27 90
nl
L!
Hexadecimal: 1B 5A
nl
n2
Comments:
Turns on 8-pin, quadruple-density graphics mode. The total number of
columns =
n7
+
(n2
X 256).
ESC*
Select Graphics Mode
Format:
ASCII code:
ESC *
m
nl
a2
Decimal:
27 42
m
nl
n2
Hexadecimal: 1B 2A
m
nl
n.2
Comments:
Turns on graphics mode m. See the following table for details on the
available modes. The total number of columns = nl +
(n2
X 256).
Command Summary
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