32 Line Matrix Printer Code V Programmer's Reference Manual

Fonts, Rotatable

There is no rotated Optical Character Recognition (OCR) font

available.

You can select any specific font from any of the four

alphanumerics commands using the Font Parameter (special

combinations of the alphanumeric command height and width

parameters) as described in Table 10.

The Rot. Char Size option setting (from the control panel menu)

determines if rotated (clockwise / counter-clockwise), expanded

characters have a different size than an unrotated character with

the same size parameters (“Adjusted”) or the same size (“Not

Adjusted”).

The Adjusted mode reflects rotating a fixed 5x7 cell character on

a 60x72 dpi, non-symmetrical printer. The Not Adjusted mode

reflects rotating on a symmetrical dpi printer.

Examples The following examples illustrate the available fonts. For each

example, the Graphics Mode command (^PY^-) was previously

sent but not shown.

10 cpi Font. The following command generates the uppercase alphabet with

numbers 0-9 in 10 cpi:

^M01,01,000ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ 0123456789^-

Table 10. Rotatable Fonts

Font Size

Line Matrix Printer

Character Dimensions*

(Vert X Horiz)

Alphanumeric Command

Font Parameter Value

7 cpi 14 dots (V) x 16 dots 00,00

10 cpi 7 dots (V) x 10 dots 01,01

12 cpi 7 dots (V) x 8 dots 00,01

15 cpi 7 dots (V) x 6 dots 01,00

*10, 12, and 15 cpi use an intercharacter spacing of one dot position. The

elongated font uses an intercharacter spacing of two dot positions.