Laser Printer Applications Manual

to describe and map your character. Sixteen bytes are needed for the

description;the bit-map takes as many bytes as you’ve put into each

charactercell—perhapstwoor threehundredbytes.

Aswiththefontheader,eachbyteinthecharacterdescriptionis a number,

sent as the symbolat that positionin the ASCIItable. Codingcharacter

descriptionsis tricky too, so again we recommendyou ask your Star

Micronicsdealer for help. The tablebelow shows what the bytes in the

characterdescriptionmean:

BYTE MEANING

descriptionlength

blank

2 always14

always1

4 orientation

5 blank

6-7

leftoffset(blankspaceto left of character)

8-9

top offset(blankspaceabovecharacter)

10-11 characterwidth

12-13 characterheight

14-15 printpositiontravel(proportionalspacingonly)

Thebitmapofthecharactersjustthepattemofdotsinthecharacter,starting

atthetopleftofitscell.Youworkyourwayacrossthecellanddownto the

bottomright;givingeachdota valueof Oif it’snotto be printedand 1if it

is.Thenyou.groupthosedotsas 8-bitbytes.

Permanent or temporary?

The

last stepin downloadingyourownfontis to makethe fontpermanent

or temporary,using the Font Control command described earlier. The

command<ESC>*c4 F willallowthefonttobeerasedwhenyouresetthe

printer.ButthecommandcESC>*C5 F willkeepyourfontavailableeven

afteryou resettheprinter.