Printer User Manual

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By moving the cursor and pressing the Fl, F2, and F3 keys you can
quicklybuildup thedot pattern. If necessaryyoucan clearalldots bypressing
F4 and start over. When the character is complete, press Return to store
the dot data in the computer’smemory. The program willclear the character
box and ask you to selectthe next character to design.
When you have finished designing characters, press the F6 key. The
program will ask you whether you want
to save, download, ad print the
characters you have designed.If you answerYes to all three questions,your
characters will be saved on a disk file and downloaded to the printer, and
the entire character set from character 33 (!) to character 126 (*) will be
printed out.
At any point while you are selecting or designingcharacters you can
press F5 to skip the current character and proceed to the next character.
The program does not allow you to redefine the space character, or to
define any other character as an all-blank character. Nor can you assign
character codeslessthan 33or greater than 126to the characters you define.
NLQ character
I
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First ml...
...m23
nas~ m24...
...m46
r--
1
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128
64
32
16
8
4
2
1
Dotdata
Ist: 14 36 m 70 r26 o 0 0 9 9 8 0
16 I I O 0 70 36 22 6 6 6
2nd: Z?3 14 M 14 24 0 64 32 16 0 0 0
32 64 0 0 0 12 12 14 14 14 12
pass
,28 ASCII Code 33
Descender
I
64 Left space: o
Right spece: 0
32
mO=Descender x 128
16
+ (Left x 16) + Right
8
4
2
1
fgure C-2.Car aymbol,near letter quality
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