32 Line Matrix Printer PCL II Programmer's Reference Manual

Chapter 2 Configuring the PCL-II Emulation with Control Codes

Symbol Set Selection

The printer allows you to select a symbol set. A symbol set is a set of

characters that are mapped to certain locations in the printer’s memory.

Symbol sets differ from one another in the characters contained in the set and

in their locations within memory. The default symbol set is that of the default

font specified from the control panel.

The following escape sequences are used to specify the primary and

secondary symbol sets:

ESC(ID Select symbol set for primary character font

ESC)ID Select symbol set for secondary character font

Table 4 lists the ID’s needed to select each symbol set. For example, to select

the Roman-8 symbol set for the primary font, you would send the ESC(8U

escape sequence. To select OCR-B for the secondary font, you would send

ESC)1O to the printer.

An ASCII symbol set table is provided in Appendix A.

NOTE: Any number of fonts may be printed on each line, but to do this, each

font must be the same pitch and typeface. That is, only one print

pitch, or typeface is allowed per line.

Table 4. Symbol Set Selection

Symbol Set

Name

ID Classification

Printable in hex

80-9F Range

Mode

Roman-8* 8U 8-Bit No 1

Turkish-8 8T 8-Bit No 1

Arab-8 8V 8-Bit No 1

Cyrillic-8 8R 8-Bit No 1

ASCII 0U 7-Bit No 0

Math Symbol 0A or 0M 7-Bit No 0

Line Draw Set 0B or 0L 7-Bit No 0

ISO Den/Nor 0D 7-Bit No 0

Roman Ext Char 0E 7-Bit No 0

ISO UK 1E 7-Bit No 0

ISO France 0F 7-Bit No 0

ISO German 0G 7-Bit No 0

Hebrew 0H 8-Bit No 1

Japan ASCII 0K 7-Bit No 0

Katakana 1K 8-Bit No 1

Block Char 1L 7-Bit No 0