Operation Manual

The typeface that is
downloaded
is
the
one
which all characters
will
be
printed
in
whenever
the DLL is selected. Therefore, if
your
printer
is
set for NLQ Sans Serif
and
you
send
the
command
to
copy
the
ROM
NLQ
Courier
typeface
to
the
DLL
RAM
[CHR$(27);":";CHR$(0);CHR$(0);CHR$(0);],
when
you
select the
DLL mode,
your
printer
will
print
all
the
following
data
in
the
NLQ Courier typeface, until
you
exit the DLL.
Step
2 Load DLL
character
generator
You can create
and
store
up
to 256 characters for
your
personal
purpose,
but
the characters from 0 to
31
and
128
to
159
are
not
printable (unless
you
have
selected Print Unassigned Code).
The
DLL character genera tor is
loaded
using
the
command
ESC &
NUL.
The
information which follows this
command
determines
all aspects of the character which
you
are creating.
Step
3
Assign
characters to
be
customised
Most characters
between
1
and
256 can
be
customised,
although
some
characters are
not
printable
at
all (CHR$(7) to(15)). A total of
14
characters
are
not
printable,
thus
242 characters
can
be
customised.
You
must
send
information to
the
printer
regarding
the
first
character
and
the last character that
you
will
be
replacing
with
your
new
characters.
The
characters
are
replaced in sequence,
starting from the first character
you
assign.
If
you
wish
to create 3 characters,
and
the first character that
you
want
to replace is
the
letter "A",
you
enter
CHR$(65);CHR$(67).
These are
the
decimal equivalents
of
A
and
C.
You can
now
load
your
DLL characters
in
place
of
the letters A, B
and
C.
When
you
have loaded
your
customised characters they will
remain in the DLL RAM in
the
location of
the
characters that they
replaced.
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Features