Laser Printer Applications Manual

Selecting the current or default symbol set

Yourprintercan useeithertheprimaryor the secondaryfontas itscurrent

font. And that current font has its currentsymbolset. Your printer also

remembemitsdefaultfontandsymbolset,whichareCourierwithRoman-

8 (unlessyou’vechangedtheirinitialparametervaluesthroughthe front

panelmenu).

The followingcommandletsyouselectoneof thosesymbolsetsfor your

primaryfont.

<ESC>( n @

For n enteroneof the followingselectionvaluesfor yourprimaryfont:

n VALUE

SELECTION

O(zero)or 1(one)

Selectsthedefaultsymbolset

Selectsthecurrentfont’ssymbolset(this

forcestheprinterto selectits bestmatch-

ing font)

Selectsall of thedefaultfont’sattributes

(notjust symbolset)

Similarly,youcanselecteitherthedefaultorthecurrentsymbolsetforyour

secondaryfont. You also may want to use the same symbolset for both

primaryandsecondaryfonts.

To do these tasks, you can send the followingcommandto select which

symbolsetyouwantfor yoursecondaryfont:

<ESC>) n @

For n enteroncof thevaluesfromthistable:

n VALUE

SELECTION

O(zero) Selectsthedefaultsymbolset

1 (one) Selectssamesymbolset as primaryfont

Selects’thecurrentfont’ssymbolset

3 Selects all the default font’s attributes(notjust

symbolset)

Example: Symbol set commands

Let’stakeashortlookathowyouusethesecommands.Here’sthescenario:

YouarealreadyusingtheTmsRomntypeface,butwanttousetheGerman

symbolsetasyouarewritingareportforyourBerlinofficeandneedumlaut

charactersforseveralnamesin the report.