Operation Manual

Step 7 Creating your character(s)
Using the graph, we are going to create our character. Only eight
rows are printed for a character. If the character is an ascender, row
one will be used but not row nine. If it is a descender, row one will
not be used but row nine will.
Our character is a descender. We are creating a special K. Here is
how it is done:
Column 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
128
64
32
16
8
4
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Note: Avoid contact between 2 dots on the horizontal lines. If this happe ns the
data is loaded but the second dot will not be printed as you will see. It will be
ignored!
Now for each column, regardless if there is a dot in it or not, add th e
values for each dot. So for co
lumn one we have a dot in rows 2, 3,
4, 5, and 6. Here is what we a dd :
64 + 32 + 16 + 8 + 4 = 124
Contin ue the same procedure for columns 2 through 11. Here are
our colu mn total s:
124, 32,16, 40, 68, 2,1 , 0, 0, 0, 0
IBM Modes Adva11ced Features 4-5