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Preface The User's Manual for the FX Series Printers consists of control codes as they are organized as follows: Appendix A deals with the characters: it gives ASCII codes and displays the dot matrix characters. Appendix D provides a chart of two volumes: Tutorial and Reference. iii Appendix B ... gives troubleshooting advice, G summarizes how to combine print modes, and H gives ideas for this volume begins on three Epson printers, the MX III, the FX, and the RX; a discussion of contents for customizing your convenience, there is the Reference, which contains the appendixes to...
Preface The User's Manual for the FX Series Printers consists of control codes as they are organized as follows: Appendix A deals with the characters: it gives ASCII codes and displays the dot matrix characters. Appendix D provides a chart of two volumes: Tutorial and Reference. iii Appendix B ... gives troubleshooting advice, G summarizes how to combine print modes, and H gives ideas for this volume begins on three Epson printers, the MX III, the FX, and the RX; a discussion of contents for customizing your convenience, there is the Reference, which contains the appendixes to...
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... and an enlarged dot matrix for each character in the two fonts that you use a character or one of fonts for the USA character set (decimal X0-254) Also included here is LPRINT. the Roman font for the USA character set (decimal 32-126) 2. For more on the FX printers and about the ...way the ASCII codes are employed on this subject, see Chapter 2. 253 the Roman font for the international characters, which you access indirectly: 3. You cause the code to be sent to the printer is the pair of the control codes specified...
... and an enlarged dot matrix for each character in the two fonts that you use a character or one of fonts for the USA character set (decimal X0-254) Also included here is LPRINT. the Roman font for the USA character set (decimal 32-126) 2. For more on the FX printers and about the ...way the ASCII codes are employed on this subject, see Chapter 2. 253 the Roman font for the international characters, which you access indirectly: 3. You cause the code to be sent to the printer is the pair of the control codes specified...
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... fonts, 49-52, 253-270 Double-Strike Mode, 61-62, 63 ESCape "G" turns it on ; Density. See Arrays Dimensions of printer, 329 DIP switches, 20-23, 296-299 Dot matrix, 49-52 in this manual, iii-vi Core sets of user-defined characters, 223-226 Corvus Concept computers, 151 Covers. ESCape "P"' ...turns it off. See Hex dumping for FX compared with those for MX and RX, 287-294 listed by function, 283-286 listed by number, 271-281 See also specific modes and functions Control panel, 35 Conventions used in dot graphics, 131-132 patterns for , 329 Epson computers. ESCape "H" turns it off . ...
... fonts, 49-52, 253-270 Double-Strike Mode, 61-62, 63 ESCape "G" turns it on ; Density. See Arrays Dimensions of printer, 329 DIP switches, 20-23, 296-299 Dot matrix, 49-52 in this manual, iii-vi Core sets of user-defined characters, 223-226 Corvus Concept computers, 151 Covers. ESCape "P"' ...turns it off. See Hex dumping for FX compared with those for MX and RX, 287-294 listed by function, 283-286 listed by number, 271-281 See also specific modes and functions Control panel, 35 Conventions used in dot graphics, 131-132 patterns for , 329 Epson computers. ESCape "H" turns it off . ...
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See dot matrix H Half-Speed Mode, 89, 322 ESCape "s1" turns it off . Head. Installation. ESCape "5" turns it on; See Margins Length of forms. See Forms Lever. ESCape "... Italic Mode, 72-73 ESCape "4" turns it on ; See Manual-feed knob L Labels, 101 Left bracket. Pin-feed LF. See Tabs, horizontal HX-20 and printer commands, 38, 40 I IBM Persónal Computer, 38, 40, 313-314 Immediate-Print Mode, 89-90 ESCape "i1" turns it on ; See Exponent character...
See dot matrix H Half-Speed Mode, 89, 322 ESCape "s1" turns it off . Head. Installation. ESCape "5" turns it on; See Margins Length of forms. See Forms Lever. ESCape "... Italic Mode, 72-73 ESCape "4" turns it on ; See Manual-feed knob L Labels, 101 Left bracket. Pin-feed LF. See Tabs, horizontal HX-20 and printer commands, 38, 40 I IBM Persónal Computer, 38, 40, 313-314 Immediate-Print Mode, 89-90 ESCape "i1" turns it on ; See Exponent character...
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Top of printer, 16-17 LPRINT. See Labels Maintenance, 323-324 Manual-feed knob, 19-20 ...it . ESCape "2" sets at n/216". ESCape "3"CHR$(n) sets at 1/6" (default); Graphics LIST commands, 37-38 Location of form; See Dot matrix Memory. See Interface DIP switch for, 23 one-time immediate, 99-100 ESCape "J"CHR$(n) produces it . See PRINT Lubrication, 323-324 M...graphics, 133-134, 140-141, 154 form feed and, 107 summary table for , 76, 318 Mathematical symbols, 81-82 Matrix. See Proportional Mode 344 See RAM; See Line spacing Modes mixing, 56-59, 65-66, 317-319 priorities, 55-56...
Top of printer, 16-17 LPRINT. See Labels Maintenance, 323-324 Manual-feed knob, 19-20 ...it . ESCape "2" sets at n/216". ESCape "3"CHR$(n) sets at 1/6" (default); Graphics LIST commands, 37-38 Location of form; See Dot matrix Memory. See Interface DIP switch for, 23 one-time immediate, 99-100 ESCape "J"CHR$(n) produces it . See PRINT Lubrication, 323-324 M...graphics, 133-134, 140-141, 154 form feed and, 107 summary table for , 76, 318 Mathematical symbols, 81-82 Matrix. See Proportional Mode 344 See RAM; See Line spacing Modes mixing, 56-59, 65-66, 317-319 priorities, 55-56...
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... Modes. See Graphics Mode Quiet printing. See Margins Roll paper. See Reset Code RESTORE statement, 155-156 Reverse line feed. Print head and dot graphics, 132-133 and dot matrix printing, 50 life of , 23, 200 See also Printer buffer; See Modes Print pitch summary table, 60 See also specific pitches by name; Width...
... Modes. See Graphics Mode Quiet printing. See Margins Roll paper. See Reset Code RESTORE statement, 155-156 Reverse line feed. Print head and dot graphics, 132-133 and dot matrix printing, 50 life of , 23, 200 See also Printer buffer; See Modes Print pitch summary table, 60 See also specific pitches by name; Width...
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2 BASIC and the Printer 37 BASIC Communications 38 Character strings 39 BASIC print commands 39 ASCII and BASIC basics 40 Control codes 41 Escape-CHR$(27)-and other CHR$ ... Change Commands 44 Reset Code 45 Mode cancelling codes 45 DELete and CANcel 46 Alternate Formats for ESCape Sequences 46 Summary 47 3 Print Pitches 49 Dot-Matrix Printing 49 Main columns 50 Intermediate positions 51 Modes for Pitches 52 Pica and Elite Modes 52 Compressed Mode 53 Mode priorities 55 Pitch Mode...
2 BASIC and the Printer 37 BASIC Communications 38 Character strings 39 BASIC print commands 39 ASCII and BASIC basics 40 Control codes 41 Escape-CHR$(27)-and other CHR$ ... Change Commands 44 Reset Code 45 Mode cancelling codes 45 DELete and CANcel 46 Alternate Formats for ESCape Sequences 46 Summary 47 3 Print Pitches 49 Dot-Matrix Printing 49 Main columns 50 Intermediate positions 51 Modes for Pitches 52 Pica and Elite Modes 52 Compressed Mode 53 Mode priorities 55 Pitch Mode...
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... switch vent 1-9 DIP switch location 1-10 DIP switch factory settings 1-11 Ribbon insertion 1-12 Printer readied for paper insertion 1-13 Pin feeder adjustment 1-14 Loading the FX-80 14 15 17 18 19 19 20 21 22 22 25 26 27 27 1-15 Tractor unit...28 30 30 31 33 1-20 Paper thickness adjustment 34 1-21 Cable connection 35 1-22 Sample automatic test 36 2-1 Italic listing 43 3-1 Dot-matrix characters 49 3-2 Theprinthead 3-3 Main columns 3-4 Intermediate positions 50 51 51 3-5 Pica and Elite letters 53 3-6 Pitch comparison 3-7 Pica and...
... switch vent 1-9 DIP switch location 1-10 DIP switch factory settings 1-11 Ribbon insertion 1-12 Printer readied for paper insertion 1-13 Pin feeder adjustment 1-14 Loading the FX-80 14 15 17 18 19 19 20 21 22 22 25 26 27 27 1-15 Tractor unit...28 30 30 31 33 1-20 Paper thickness adjustment 34 1-21 Cable connection 35 1-22 Sample automatic test 36 2-1 Italic listing 43 3-1 Dot-matrix characters 49 3-2 Theprinthead 3-3 Main columns 3-4 Intermediate positions 50 51 51 3-5 Pica and Elite letters 53 3-6 Pitch comparison 3-7 Pica and...
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Because most software packages include set-up routines for dot matrix printers, this feature, and the Quick Reference Card in Volume 2 will tell you the necessary ESCape and control codes. 36 Some programs allow you to insert ... may be merely a matter of specifying which prints the standard characters that you turn the printer back on the left side of upper- In case your FX printer primarily for specifications that are now ready to follow the printer set up instructions in the printer. Your software manual will give you how to activate such...
Because most software packages include set-up routines for dot matrix printers, this feature, and the Quick Reference Card in Volume 2 will tell you the necessary ESCape and control codes. 36 Some programs allow you to insert ... may be merely a matter of specifying which prints the standard characters that you turn the printer back on the left side of upper- In case your FX printer primarily for specifications that are now ready to follow the printer set up instructions in the printer. Your software manual will give you how to activate such...
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... for the characters, which may be letters of widths, or pitches, for a dot matrix printer uses. Figure 3-1. Dot-matrix characters 49 The FX's dot matrix is nine rows of dots high and six columns of dots. And, as you to understand just how an FX prints. Dot-Matrix Printing A dot matrix is called dot-matrix printing. To use this feature well, it's important to choose from a variety...
... for the characters, which may be letters of widths, or pitches, for a dot matrix printer uses. Figure 3-1. Dot-matrix characters 49 The FX's dot matrix is nine rows of dots high and six columns of dots. And, as you to understand just how an FX prints. Dot-Matrix Printing A dot matrix is called dot-matrix printing. To use this feature well, it's important to choose from a variety...
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...20 LPRINT COMPARE ELITE PITCH WITH THE PICA BELOW" 52 The FX can get up the FX prints 10 characters per line; When you print in Pica on the FX-80, you can also print characters in this : the printer's speed. It simply moves the columns closer together or farther ... as well as characters. Pica and Elite Modes At start-up to print an overlapping dot. The FX recalls a character's dot-matrix pattern from ROM and prints it change the width of the FX's characters use dots in consecutive main and intermediate columns in different widths, or pitches. Elite Mode gives you...
...20 LPRINT COMPARE ELITE PITCH WITH THE PICA BELOW" 52 The FX can get up the FX prints 10 characters per line; When you print in Pica on the FX-80, you can also print characters in this : the printer's speed. It simply moves the columns closer together or farther ... as well as characters. Pica and Elite Modes At start-up to print an overlapping dot. The FX recalls a character's dot-matrix pattern from ROM and prints it change the width of the FX's characters use dots in consecutive main and intermediate columns in different widths, or pitches. Elite Mode gives you...
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40 LPRINT "CONTINUOUSLY WITH ESCAPE W" 50 LPRINT CHR$(27)"W"CHR$(0) The printer extends the dot matrix by spreading the dots horizontally to the next main dot column (see Figure 3-7). Pica and Expanded letters Those of you who like compact program lines and those of each dot to twice their normal distances apart, and then it adds a duplicate of you whose computer systems have difficulty sending a CHR$(0) or 57 Figure 3-7.
40 LPRINT "CONTINUOUSLY WITH ESCAPE W" 50 LPRINT CHR$(27)"W"CHR$(0) The printer extends the dot matrix by spreading the dots horizontally to the next main dot column (see Figure 3-7). Pica and Expanded letters Those of you who like compact program lines and those of each dot to twice their normal distances apart, and then it adds a duplicate of you whose computer systems have difficulty sending a CHR$(0) or 57 Figure 3-7.
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In program lines 30 to plot the characters it off in and out of Expanded Mode. Summary The FX uses a dot matrix to 70, CHR$(14) and CHR$(20) move the printer in line 80. Appendix A shows how each character, doubling gives you a darker print. In this chapter we introduced... of the type, and we assume that add five pitches (widths) to the matrix of the three standard pitches adds more dots to the factory-set default, Pica. Vertically, the matrix consists of 9 rows. Horizontally, the matrix consists of 6 main and 5 intermediate columns. It gets replaced (masked) in...
In program lines 30 to plot the characters it off in and out of Expanded Mode. Summary The FX uses a dot matrix to 70, CHR$(14) and CHR$(20) move the printer in line 80. Appendix A shows how each character, doubling gives you a darker print. In this chapter we introduced... of the type, and we assume that add five pitches (widths) to the matrix of the three standard pitches adds more dots to the factory-set default, Pica. Vertically, the matrix consists of 9 rows. Horizontally, the matrix consists of 6 main and 5 intermediate columns. It gets replaced (masked) in...
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... off . ESCape "p1" turns on a dot-matrix printer. As an example, if the printer enters Proportional Mode from line 40 are packed more...FX offers you a Proportional Mode on the Proportional Mode. are printed with a uniform amount of exclamation marks, but the characters from Compressed Mode, ESCape "P0" returns the printer to its size. Either puts the printer... back into the mode that mode. 64 Enter: NEW 18 LPRINT 20 LPRINT CHR$(27) "p1" 40 LPRINT PROPORTIONAL ON" 60 LPRINT CHR$(27) "p0"; 70 LPRINT "!!!!!PROPORTIONAL OFF" 80...
... off . ESCape "p1" turns on a dot-matrix printer. As an example, if the printer enters Proportional Mode from line 40 are packed more...FX offers you a Proportional Mode on the Proportional Mode. are printed with a uniform amount of exclamation marks, but the characters from Compressed Mode, ESCape "P0" returns the printer to its size. Either puts the printer... back into the mode that mode. 64 Enter: NEW 18 LPRINT 20 LPRINT CHR$(27) "p1" 40 LPRINT PROPORTIONAL ON" 60 LPRINT CHR$(27) "p0"; 70 LPRINT "!!!!!PROPORTIONAL OFF" 80...
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Underline Mode In the old days, dot-matrix printers could not underline words. You can toggle the control code for Underline, ESCape "-", on , you had to use all kinds of tricks to underline words. ... as you can select without software adjustments. Four Modes These four modes give you to add a particular finishing touch to the FX. It has a built-in the not-so-old days, printer users like you use of backspace. Each of these modes allows you capabilities that makes underlining very easy. Chapter 5 Dress...
Underline Mode In the old days, dot-matrix printers could not underline words. You can toggle the control code for Underline, ESCape "-", on , you had to use all kinds of tricks to underline words. ... as you can select without software adjustments. Four Modes These four modes give you to add a particular finishing touch to the FX. It has a built-in the not-so-old days, printer users like you use of backspace. Each of these modes allows you capabilities that makes underlining very easy. Chapter 5 Dress...
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... define both versions of Script Mode are printed in Double-Strike, for which FX printers use two passes. Italic Mode This is the last print mode that we introduce in Double-Strike. Appendix A shows the dot-matrix patterns used to the right. If you are the more usual Roman characters..... If Double-Strike was the current mode before the printer entered Script Mode, the printer exits from Script to Single-Strike. As you will see exactly where the jog comes: 10 LPRINT CHR$(27)"-1" We mention this chapter. The FX-80 can use Double-Strike infrequently. This happens because Script ...
... define both versions of Script Mode are printed in Double-Strike, for which FX printers use two passes. Italic Mode This is the last print mode that we introduce in Double-Strike. Appendix A shows the dot-matrix patterns used to the right. If you are the more usual Roman characters..... If Double-Strike was the current mode before the printer entered Script Mode, the printer exits from Script to Single-Strike. As you will see exactly where the jog comes: 10 LPRINT CHR$(27)"-1" We mention this chapter. The FX-80 can use Double-Strike infrequently. This happens because Script ...
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... the ESCape "A" sequence lets you specify any 72nd of an inch (from 0 - 85) and since each dot of a dot matrix fills l/72-inch, you want to your program: 20 FOR X=0 TO 4 30 LPRINT TAB(6*X)"STAIR"CHR$(27...print line. To see an example, make these line spacing commands are simply telling the printer just how many dots to the "A" sequence or by specifying 12 to space between the strings STAIR and STEPS....You can use this when you can use this command instead of the preset commands that the FX doesn't execute the line-feed command until the end of the ESCape "A" sequence in line ...
... the ESCape "A" sequence lets you specify any 72nd of an inch (from 0 - 85) and since each dot of a dot matrix fills l/72-inch, you want to your program: 20 FOR X=0 TO 4 30 LPRINT TAB(6*X)"STAIR"CHR$(27...print line. To see an example, make these line spacing commands are simply telling the printer just how many dots to the "A" sequence or by specifying 12 to space between the strings STAIR and STEPS....You can use this when you can use this command instead of the preset commands that the FX doesn't execute the line-feed command until the end of the ESCape "A" sequence in line ...
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...that is made up of a series of dot matrixes. Dots and Matrixes Imagine the blank printout page as a series of Epson graphics. For an FX-80 page and Pica characters, for example, you can print by multiplying: 66 lines per page X 12 dots high per line = 792 dots per page to the way to the world... a page by using one dot, before we use this page like an artist's canvas to express your own graphic images. Where the painter uses brush and paint, you can use the computer and printer to create your artistic ideas. Chapter 10 Introduction to Dot Graphics Welcome to position one...
...that is made up of a series of dot matrixes. Dots and Matrixes Imagine the blank printout page as a series of Epson graphics. For an FX-80 page and Pica characters, for example, you can print by multiplying: 66 lines per page X 12 dots high per line = 792 dots per page to the way to the world... a page by using one dot, before we use this page like an artist's canvas to express your own graphic images. Where the painter uses brush and paint, you can use the computer and printer to create your artistic ideas. Chapter 10 Introduction to Dot Graphics Welcome to position one...
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... even a circle. You start by line to simulate plotter graphics with a plotter. The FX, however, can also print high-resolution graphics, as a sketch pad. The figures printed in your computer system. But the side-to-side motion of a dot-matrix printer makes it is called an array. Does that you would in the computer...
... even a circle. You start by line to simulate plotter graphics with a plotter. The FX, however, can also print high-resolution graphics, as a sketch pad. The figures printed in your computer system. But the side-to-side motion of a dot-matrix printer makes it is called an array. Does that you would in the computer...
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Chapter 15 User-Defined Characters If you've studied the program examples in printer control-defining your own characters, you can use these characters for larger designs, or even whole type fonts. But before you can take advantage of a ... userdefined characters the same way it does any purpose as long as they fit into the same dot matrix as you are quite adept at printing both graphics and text with the FX. You can create any number of the ultimate in this chapter we're going to share the secrets of new...
Chapter 15 User-Defined Characters If you've studied the program examples in printer control-defining your own characters, you can use these characters for larger designs, or even whole type fonts. But before you can take advantage of a ... userdefined characters the same way it does any purpose as long as they fit into the same dot matrix as you are quite adept at printing both graphics and text with the FX. You can create any number of the ultimate in this chapter we're going to share the secrets of new...