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Chapter 5 Combining Graphics and Text

Combining Graphics and Text

The LinePrinter Plus Emulation is capable of combining graphics and

characters (text) on the same page in two ways:

• Use Bit Image graphics or P-Series Plot mode to produce characters as

well as graphics

• A combination of text (not plot) and graphics can be mixed on the same

page within all protocols.

Text and graphics can be mixed on the same line, however, only by using the

Bit Image graphics in the Epson FX or Proprinter XL protocols.

Any character or symbol can be created in the Plot mode or with Bit Image

graphics simply by addressing and plotting the appropriate dot positions.

Either Bit Image or Plot mode graphics can be mixed with text within the page

on a line by line basis. Each line of graphics data must include a graphics

control code or the emulation will automatically default to the print mode.

Using Bit Image graphics, it is possible to use the print mode to produce text

on one print pass followed by a print pass to produce graphics on the same

line; however, text characters can be affected by the Bit Image data when

combined on the same line.

The plot data byte dot patterns shown on page 155 are referenced in the

description of P-Series plot mode on page 150.