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4 Elements of Dot-Matrix Printing and Computer/Printer Communications 4-1 The Print Head 4-1 Changing Widths 4-2 Computer-to-Printer Communications 4-3 ASCII Codes 4-3 Control Codes 4-4 ESCape Sequences 4-4 Demonstration Programs 4-4 Running BASIC Programs 4-5 How to Send Control Codes to the Printer 4-6 5 FX-286 Features 5-1 IBM Proprinter Mode 5-1 Pica Printing 5-3 Changing Widths 5-3 Cancelling Codes 5-4 Resetting the Printer 5-4 Disabling a program's reset code 5-5 Width Comparison 5-5 Near Letter Quality...
4 Elements of Dot-Matrix Printing and Computer/Printer Communications 4-1 The Print Head 4-1 Changing Widths 4-2 Computer-to-Printer Communications 4-3 ASCII Codes 4-3 Control Codes 4-4 ESCape Sequences 4-4 Demonstration Programs 4-4 Running BASIC Programs 4-5 How to Send Control Codes to the Printer 4-6 5 FX-286 Features 5-1 IBM Proprinter Mode 5-1 Pica Printing 5-3 Changing Widths 5-3 Cancelling Codes 5-4 Resetting the Printer 5-4 Disabling a program's reset code 5-5 Width Comparison 5-5 Near Letter Quality...
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6 Introduction to Dot Graphics 6-1 Dot Patterns 6-2 The Print Head and Graphics 6-2 Graphics Mode 6-3 Pin Labels 6-4 First Graphics Programs 6-5 WIDTH Statements 6-6 Multiple-line Exercise 6-6 Density Varieties ...A-1 Default Settings A-1 The DIP Switches A-2 Selecting the IBM Proprinter mode A-3 Printing the Alternate and All Print character sets . A-3 B Loading Single-sheet Paper in the IBM Proprinter mode . A-3 Running the self test in the FX-286 B-1 Removing the Tractor Unit B-1 Loading Single-sheet Paper B-2 Disabling the paper...
6 Introduction to Dot Graphics 6-1 Dot Patterns 6-2 The Print Head and Graphics 6-2 Graphics Mode 6-3 Pin Labels 6-4 First Graphics Programs 6-5 WIDTH Statements 6-6 Multiple-line Exercise 6-6 Density Varieties ...A-1 Default Settings A-1 The DIP Switches A-2 Selecting the IBM Proprinter mode A-3 Printing the Alternate and All Print character sets . A-3 B Loading Single-sheet Paper in the IBM Proprinter mode . A-3 Running the self test in the FX-286 B-1 Removing the Tractor Unit B-1 Loading Single-sheet Paper B-2 Disabling the paper...
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... numbers for user-defined characters C-9 WIDTH statements C-9 D Maintenance D-1 Changing the Print Head D-1 Removing the old print head D-1 Installing the new print head D-2 E The Parallel Interface E-1 Data Transfer Sequence E-3 Interface timing E-3 Printing enabled/disabled signals and control conditions E-3 F Technical Specifications F-1 Printing F-1 Character sizes F-1 Characters per line F-2 Paper F-2 Printer F-2 Dimensions and weight F-3 Environment F-3 Interface F-4 vi C Troubleshooting and Problem Solving...
... numbers for user-defined characters C-9 WIDTH statements C-9 D Maintenance D-1 Changing the Print Head D-1 Removing the old print head D-1 Installing the new print head D-2 E The Parallel Interface E-1 Data Transfer Sequence E-3 Interface timing E-3 Printing enabled/disabled signals and control conditions E-3 F Technical Specifications F-1 Printing F-1 Character sizes F-1 Characters per line F-2 Paper F-2 Printer F-2 Dimensions and weight F-3 Environment F-3 Interface F-4 vi C Troubleshooting and Problem Solving...
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... arrow figure 6-13 7-1 FX-286 dot-matrix characters 7-2 7-2 Grid for designing draft characters 7-3 7-3 Correct and incorrect designs 7-3 7-4 Design for character 7-4 7-5 Using the bottom eight rows 7-6 A-1 DIP switch location A-2 A-2 IBM Proprinter mode self test A-4 B-1 Removing the tractor unit B-1 B-2 Loading single-sheet paper B-2 B-3 Installing the tractor unit B-4 C-1 Hexadecimal codes in order C-6 D-1 Print head replacement D-2 E-1 Parallel interface...
... arrow figure 6-13 7-1 FX-286 dot-matrix characters 7-2 7-2 Grid for designing draft characters 7-3 7-3 Correct and incorrect designs 7-3 7-4 Design for character 7-4 7-5 Using the bottom eight rows 7-6 A-1 DIP switch location A-2 A-2 IBM Proprinter mode self test A-4 B-1 Removing the tractor unit B-1 B-2 Loading single-sheet paper B-2 B-3 Installing the tractor unit B-4 C-1 Hexadecimal codes in order C-6 D-1 Print head replacement D-2 E-1 Parallel interface...
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... The power must be careful not to the printer. The next time you install a ribbon or load paper, you should remove the dust cover to allow easier access to touch the print head because it up on . If you 're ready to the middle of FX-286 3 Installing the Ribbon Before installing the ribbon ...and loading the paper, you can leave the cover on the left corner and the cover comes off the printer. (Only the left and right ...
... The power must be careful not to the printer. The next time you install a ribbon or load paper, you should remove the dust cover to allow easier access to touch the print head because it up on . If you 're ready to the middle of FX-286 3 Installing the Ribbon Before installing the ribbon ...and loading the paper, you can leave the cover on the left corner and the cover comes off the printer. (Only the left and right ...
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... slide between the silver ribbon guide and the print head. tion of the arrow to replace the ribbon with a fresh cartridge. And that's it doesn't, you can guide the ribbon into place using the point of the printer. To replace the ribbon, just pull up your FX-286 where the paper can also refer to... use the installed tractor feed unit and continuous-feed paper, set up on the two plastic tabs on the top of the printer. 1-7 With the cartridge in place, again...
... slide between the silver ribbon guide and the print head. tion of the arrow to replace the ribbon with a fresh cartridge. And that's it doesn't, you can guide the ribbon into place using the point of the printer. To replace the ribbon, just pull up your FX-286 where the paper can also refer to... use the installed tractor feed unit and continuous-feed paper, set up on the two plastic tabs on the top of the printer. 1-7 With the cartridge in place, again...
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... the tractor unit 1-9 Removing the locking tabs from the platen. 3. The tractor unit is turned OFF. 2. Move the print head to ship or store the printer. Remove the two plastic locking tabs that the printer is adjustable to accommodate paper widths from 4 to 14 7/8 inches. To load continuous-feed paper, follow these instructions: 1. Figure...
... the tractor unit 1-9 Removing the locking tabs from the platen. 3. The tractor unit is turned OFF. 2. Move the print head to ship or store the printer. Remove the two plastic locking tabs that the printer is adjustable to accommodate paper widths from 4 to 14 7/8 inches. To load continuous-feed paper, follow these instructions: 1. Figure...
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... Turn the power ON with the power-up sequence. l The printer is initialized-any previous settings are erased, and the printer is turned ON: l The print head moves back and forth and stops at the left side of the printer. Plug in the FX-286, it's time to its default (or preset) values (see Figure... 1-16). 5 Turning the Power On With the ribbon and paper installed in the printer's power cord,...
... Turn the power ON with the power-up sequence. l The printer is initialized-any previous settings are erased, and the printer is turned ON: l The print head moves back and forth and stops at the left side of the printer. Plug in the FX-286, it's time to its default (or preset) values (see Figure... 1-16). 5 Turning the Power On With the ribbon and paper installed in the printer's power cord,...
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Figure 1-19. You can now replace the dust cover and tilt it down into its operational position. Paper-thickness lever 1-20 This position is ready to print. Caution Never use the extreme rear "-" setting. You've completed the setup and paper loading steps and have made the necessary adjustments-the FX-286 is used for head alignment and will shorten print head life if used in normal operation.
Figure 1-19. You can now replace the dust cover and tilt it down into its operational position. Paper-thickness lever 1-20 This position is ready to print. Caution Never use the extreme rear "-" setting. You've completed the setup and paper loading steps and have made the necessary adjustments-the FX-286 is used for head alignment and will shorten print head life if used in normal operation.
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...you who want to produce letters, numbers, symbols, or graphics. A capital T 4-1 The Print Head The FX-286 uses a print head with nine pins or wires mounted vertically. For example, to print a pica capital T, the head fires the top pin, moves 1/60th of an inch, fires the top pin again, ..., particularly the ones on graphics and userdefined characters. Chapter 4 Elements of Dot-Matrix Printing and Computer/Printer Communications This chapter is about how your printer works. As the head moves horizontally across the page, these pins are fired time after time in different patterns...
...you who want to produce letters, numbers, symbols, or graphics. A capital T 4-1 The Print Head The FX-286 uses a print head with nine pins or wires mounted vertically. For example, to print a pica capital T, the head fires the top pin, moves 1/60th of an inch, fires the top pin again, ..., particularly the ones on graphics and userdefined characters. Chapter 4 Elements of Dot-Matrix Printing and Computer/Printer Communications This chapter is about how your printer works. As the head moves horizontally across the page, these pins are fired time after time in different patterns...
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... print head becomes the top-of-page setting. However, if you decide you want to set up the FX-286 to do something your applications program won't do this to ensure that best fits a particular printing job. Many initialization codes can choose the width that you prefer or the one of these methods returns the printer...
... print head becomes the top-of-page setting. However, if you decide you want to set up the FX-286 to do something your applications program won't do this to ensure that best fits a particular printing job. Many initialization codes can choose the width that you prefer or the one of these methods returns the printer...
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... enough to the right of Fx-286 modes Print sample inch Near Letter Quality Pica print Elite print Condensed print Condensed elite * *Epson mode only CPI 10.00 10.00 12.00 17.16 20.00 Remember that are compared in this , the print head must slow down so that ...can use BASIC to the printer. Table S-7. Print Enhancements and Special Characters Besides the widths (pica, elite, and condensed) already covered, the FX-286 offers many other typestyles. Summary of the first. The following modes and typestyles are available in NLQ: Epson Mode Double-width Emphasized Superscript...
... enough to the right of Fx-286 modes Print sample inch Near Letter Quality Pica print Elite print Condensed print Condensed elite * *Epson mode only CPI 10.00 10.00 12.00 17.16 20.00 Remember that are compared in this , the print head must slow down so that ...can use BASIC to the printer. Table S-7. Print Enhancements and Special Characters Besides the widths (pica, elite, and condensed) already covered, the FX-286 offers many other typestyles. Summary of the first. The following modes and typestyles are available in NLQ: Epson Mode Double-width Emphasized Superscript...
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...with either the pica or elite widths. In Epson mode, emphasized works only in elite. In the IBM Proprinter mode, ESCape "G" produces NLQ rather than NLQ printing. Since 5-8 You may want to use emphasized instead of emphasized, type and run this mode the FX-286 prints each line, then moves the paper up ... see if you can see an example of the NLQ mode for some print speed with emphasized, because the print head slows down and prints twice as you run the following program. Unlike emphasized, double-strike combines with many dots, but not with NLQ) because it also works ...
...with either the pica or elite widths. In Epson mode, emphasized works only in elite. In the IBM Proprinter mode, ESCape "G" produces NLQ rather than NLQ printing. Since 5-8 You may want to use emphasized instead of emphasized, type and run this mode the FX-286 prints each line, then moves the paper up ... see if you can see an example of the NLQ mode for some print speed with emphasized, because the print head slows down and prints twice as you run the following program. Unlike emphasized, double-strike combines with many dots, but not with NLQ) because it also works ...
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...text, but because of the distance between lines. Paper-out Sensor Under the platen (the black roller) of your FX-286 printer is a small switch that sounds the beeper and stops your print head, ribbon, and platen, but in some cases you need for the proper commands. If you can be careful ...not to allow the FX-286 to print on your printing. When the end of the paper passes this , one you need to increase or decrease the space between the switch and the print head, it triggers a signal that senses whether or not paper is in the printer. Then the printer will ignore the paper...
...text, but because of the distance between lines. Paper-out Sensor Under the platen (the black roller) of your FX-286 printer is a small switch that sounds the beeper and stops your print head, ribbon, and platen, but in some cases you need for the proper commands. If you can be careful ...not to allow the FX-286 to print on your printing. When the end of the paper passes this , one you need to increase or decrease the space between the switch and the print head, it triggers a signal that senses whether or not paper is in the printer. Then the printer will ignore the paper...
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..., therefore, be as finely detailed as the one on the FX-286 about the same way that gives the proper instructions to the printer, your own programming or merely wish to understand how the FX-286 prints graphics, read on. If you use commercial software that produces graphics, all you want the dots ... magazines are formed on the first page of many as many small dots. Dot Patterns Graphic images are printed. If you plan carefully where you need to know about how the print head on the FX-286 prints letters: It receives a code for a letter and then fires a pattern of dots, as 240 dot ...
..., therefore, be as finely detailed as the one on the FX-286 about the same way that gives the proper instructions to the printer, your own programming or merely wish to understand how the FX-286 prints graphics, read on. If you use commercial software that produces graphics, all you want the dots ... magazines are formed on the first page of many as many small dots. Dot Patterns Graphic images are printed. If you plan carefully where you need to know about how the print head on the FX-286 prints letters: It receives a code for a letter and then fires a pattern of dots, as 240 dot ...
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...the top eight of the nine pins. Each pass of the print head prints one piece of the total pattern, which can use . The FX-286 has several different graphics densities, but the first exercises keep the print head from the other FX-286 modes, such as emphasized and double-width, one ESCape code... turns the mode on and another , just as pin patterns and prints them on a graphics mode also...
...the top eight of the nine pins. Each pass of the print head prints one piece of the total pattern, which can use . The FX-286 has several different graphics densities, but the first exercises keep the print head from the other FX-286 modes, such as emphasized and double-width, one ESCape code... turns the mode on and another , just as pin patterns and prints them on a graphics mode also...
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...mode command uses two numbers for reserving columns. Since the command is shown in graphics printing. Pin Labels Once you put the printer into graphics mode and reserve the number of columns you can fire any one number ...up the numbers of the pins and send the sum to reserve because as many columns to the printer. Since the FX-286 doesn't use a single number to specify which pins to fire in each column. To figure ... just make n1 the number of columns you want to tell the print head which of the 256 possible patterns you are possible in Figure 6-1. 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 Figure ...
...mode command uses two numbers for reserving columns. Since the command is shown in graphics printing. Pin Labels Once you put the printer into graphics mode and reserve the number of columns you can fire any one number ...up the numbers of the pins and send the sum to reserve because as many columns to the printer. Since the FX-286 doesn't use a single number to specify which pins to fire in each column. To figure ... just make n1 the number of columns you want to tell the print head which of the 256 possible patterns you are possible in Figure 6-1. 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 Figure ...
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...As usual, n1 and n2 reserve the number of columns for doubledensity Reassigning Code The FX-286 (in the Epson mode only) has a graphics command that uses the ESCape code and a letter, but FX-286 graphics commands in the Epson mode can also be used . You are familiar with many possible dot positions enables high... eight-pin graphics densities and the reassigning code, this example is in BASIC, but you can send the code in any one pass of the print head. FX-286 can put a dot (dot positions), but only half of them can be in the following code before you run a graphics program, it with ...
...As usual, n1 and n2 reserve the number of columns for doubledensity Reassigning Code The FX-286 (in the Epson mode only) has a graphics command that uses the ESCape code and a letter, but FX-286 graphics commands in the Epson mode can also be used . You are familiar with many possible dot positions enables high... eight-pin graphics densities and the reassigning code, this example is in BASIC, but you can send the code in any one pass of the print head. FX-286 can put a dot (dot positions), but only half of them can be in the following code before you run a graphics program, it with ...
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...following defaults. A-1 Appendix A Defaults and DIP Switches This appendix lists the default settings of the FX-286 printer and lists and describes the functions of the DIP switches-small switches inside the printer that you change the default for this setting by changing a DIP switch. l Pica pitch ...tabs set at every two lines Horizontal tabs set at every eight spaces l Epson mode l USA character set l Paper-out sensor on l Carriage return issued at the position of the print head when you reset the printer-by issuing an ESCape "@"-or when you can change the page length with...
...following defaults. A-1 Appendix A Defaults and DIP Switches This appendix lists the default settings of the FX-286 printer and lists and describes the functions of the DIP switches-small switches inside the printer that you change the default for this setting by changing a DIP switch. l Pica pitch ...tabs set at every two lines Horizontal tabs set at every eight spaces l Epson mode l USA character set l Paper-out sensor on l Carriage return issued at the position of the print head when you reset the printer-by issuing an ESCape "@"-or when you can change the page length with...
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... (pulled toward the front of the printer). Paper loading If you have trouble or want to single-space, or if it prints all the lines on top of each other, change DIP switch 2-4. Move the print head to a few possible problems. Double-spacing or overprinting If your FX-286 double-spaces when you are set for...
... (pulled toward the front of the printer). Paper loading If you have trouble or want to single-space, or if it prints all the lines on top of each other, change DIP switch 2-4. Move the print head to a few possible problems. Double-spacing or overprinting If your FX-286 double-spaces when you are set for...