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...in either one. These appendixes are implemented on the next page. a discussion of contents for this volume begins on three Epson printers, the MX III, the FX, and the RX; A complete table of the differences follows the chart. You can therefore find all the references to Volume... 1. 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...
...in either one. These appendixes are implemented on the next page. a discussion of contents for this volume begins on three Epson printers, the MX III, the FX, and the RX; A complete table of the differences follows the chart. You can therefore find all the references to Volume... 1. 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...
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FX Series Printer User's Manual Volume 2 Contents Preface iii List of Figures vii List of Tables vii A ASCII Codes and Character Fonts 2.53 ASCII Codes and International Characters 253 ASCII Code Summary 254 International Characters Summary 255 ASCII Character Matrixes 256 B Control Codes in Numeric Order 271 C Control Codes by Function 283 D Control-Code Comparison 287 Control-Code Chart 287 Epson Model Differences 289 E Defaults and DIP Switches 295 Default Settings 295 DIP Switches 296 Examining the Switches 297 v
FX Series Printer User's Manual Volume 2 Contents Preface iii List of Figures vii List of Tables vii A ASCII Codes and Character Fonts 2.53 ASCII Codes and International Characters 253 ASCII Code Summary 254 International Characters Summary 255 ASCII Character Matrixes 256 B Control Codes in Numeric Order 271 C Control Codes by Function 283 D Control-Code Comparison 287 Control-Code Chart 287 Epson Model Differences 289 E Defaults and DIP Switches 295 Default Settings 295 DIP Switches 296 Examining the Switches 297 v
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...receiving decimal code 10 as a series of line feeds, hex 0A (decimal 10). To debug a program quickly, just use the hex dumping capability. Coding Solutions Once you translate the hex codes to the paper. The hex mode prints 20 numbers per line on the FX-80 and 34 numbers per line ...on the FX-100. For example, the TRS-80 Model III prints Figure F-2: Figure F-2. Appendix A will help you 've determined that a code creates problems for your 306 Take the printer offline to dump the characters to ASCII equivalents....
...receiving decimal code 10 as a series of line feeds, hex 0A (decimal 10). To debug a program quickly, just use the hex dumping capability. Coding Solutions Once you translate the hex codes to the paper. The hex mode prints 20 numbers per line on the FX-80 and 34 numbers per line ...on the FX-100. For example, the TRS-80 Model III prints Figure F-2: Figure F-2. Appendix A will help you 've determined that a code creates problems for your 306 Take the printer offline to dump the characters to ASCII equivalents....
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...i n g By ACKNLG or BUSY signals L o g i c l e v e l Input data and all interface control signals are compatible with Epson MX series) Synchronization ......... Dimensions and weight FX-80 FX-100 Height 100 mm 150 mm Width (without paper ..... 420 mm 594 mm feed knob) Depth 347 mm 354 mm Weight 7.5 kg 10.5 kg ... to 35°C (41°F to 95°F) Storage - 30°C to 70°C ( - 22°F to 158°F) Humidity Operating 10% to 80% (no condensation) Storage 5% to 85% (no condensation) S h o c k Operating 1 G (less than 1 millisecond) Storage 2 G (less than 1 ...
...i n g By ACKNLG or BUSY signals L o g i c l e v e l Input data and all interface control signals are compatible with Epson MX series) Synchronization ......... Dimensions and weight FX-80 FX-100 Height 100 mm 150 mm Width (without paper ..... 420 mm 594 mm feed knob) Depth 347 mm 354 mm Weight 7.5 kg 10.5 kg ... to 35°C (41°F to 95°F) Storage - 30°C to 70°C ( - 22°F to 158°F) Humidity Operating 10% to 80% (no condensation) Storage 5% to 85% (no condensation) S h o c k Operating 1 G (less than 1 millisecond) Storage 2 G (less than 1 ...
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...: Chapters 10 to 14 User-defined characters: Chapters 15 and 16 Using everything together: Chapter 17 A complete table of contents for the FX Series printers consists of two volumes: Tutorial and Reference. For your convenience, there is widely used in This Manual We provide sample BASIC programs that you should .... Conventions Used in personal computers. We suggest that allow you to prevent losing programs because of each change to see how various commands control the printer's capabilities.
...: Chapters 10 to 14 User-defined characters: Chapters 15 and 16 Using everything together: Chapter 17 A complete table of contents for the FX Series printers consists of two volumes: Tutorial and Reference. For your convenience, there is widely used in This Manual We provide sample BASIC programs that you should .... Conventions Used in personal computers. We suggest that allow you to prevent losing programs because of each change to see how various commands control the printer's capabilities.
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... 10 1 The FX Printers 13 Additional Supplies and Accessories 16 Printer Location 16 Printer Preparation 17 Paper separator 17 Covers 18 Manual-feed knob 19 DIP switches 20 Ribbon Installation 23 Paper Loading 24 FX-80: built-in tractor feed 24 FX-80 and FX-100: friction feed 28 FX-80 and FX-100: removable tractor unit (optional on the FX-80 29 Top...
... 10 1 The FX Printers 13 Additional Supplies and Accessories 16 Printer Location 16 Printer Preparation 17 Paper separator 17 Covers 18 Manual-feed knob 19 DIP switches 20 Ribbon Installation 23 Paper Loading 24 FX-80: built-in tractor feed 24 FX-80 and FX-100: friction feed 28 FX-80 and FX-100: removable tractor unit (optional on the FX-80 29 Top...
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... and vertical tabs, margins, form length, a skip-over-perforation feature, and variable line feeds l Up to 233 characters per line with the FX-80™ Introduction FX Features Epson's MX series of printers attracted enough attention to become the most MX III features l Several different print modes that can create your own alphabets and special symbols...
... and vertical tabs, margins, form length, a skip-over-perforation feature, and variable line feeds l Up to 233 characters per line with the FX-80™ Introduction FX Features Epson's MX series of printers attracted enough attention to become the most MX III features l Several different print modes that can create your own alphabets and special symbols...
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... simply can always learn about the FX's advanced features at the back of Volume 2, and a knowledge of the two. This program, the Appendixes, and the Quick Reference Card will bring you are already familiar with the MX or RX series of printers, Appendix E provides a summary of the printer's features. You can 't wait to information...
... simply can always learn about the FX's advanced features at the back of Volume 2, and a knowledge of the two. This program, the Appendixes, and the Quick Reference Card will bring you are already familiar with the MX or RX series of printers, Appendix E provides a summary of the printer's features. You can 't wait to information...
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...This new mode automatically turns off Expanded and Emphasized Modes and prints SERIES in Superscript Mode and then prints the right side of the border. 180 Prints the bottom half of the FX letters. 190 Turns OFF the codes, prints PRINTERS in Expanded Emphasized printing. The user-defined character 0 produces the... more border lines. 160 Prints the upper half of borders, then sets Master Select with ESCape "!X", Emphasized Double-Strike Pica, and prints EPSON. 110 Prints the outside border. 11 Also turns on Italic and Underline Modes. 140 Prints TICKET TO SUCCESS, then resets the...
...This new mode automatically turns off Expanded and Emphasized Modes and prints SERIES in Superscript Mode and then prints the right side of the border. 180 Prints the bottom half of the FX letters. 190 Turns OFF the codes, prints PRINTERS in Expanded Emphasized printing. The user-defined character 0 produces the... more border lines. 160 Prints the upper half of borders, then sets Master Select with ESCape "!X", Emphasized Double-Strike Pica, and prints EPSON. 110 Prints the outside border. 11 Also turns on Italic and Underline Modes. 140 Prints TICKET TO SUCCESS, then resets the...
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... should receive the items shown in Figure 1-1: 1. On an FX-100 you must purchase the optional FX-80 tractor unit. To handle narrower continuous-feed paper, you will find these items installed: 7. The printer itself 2. A paper separator 4. A manual-feed knob 3. This FX Series Printer User's Manual The FX-80 has a tractor built into its platen for handling continuousfeed paper...
... should receive the items shown in Figure 1-1: 1. On an FX-100 you must purchase the optional FX-80 tractor unit. To handle narrower continuous-feed paper, you will find these items installed: 7. The printer itself 2. A paper separator 4. A manual-feed knob 3. This FX Series Printer User's Manual The FX-80 has a tractor built into its platen for handling continuousfeed paper...
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... inside this feature well, it 's made up of a series of dots wide. The FX's dot matrix is nine rows of dots high and six columns of dots. Chapter 3 Print Pitches One of the big advantages an FX printer has over a daisy-wheel printer or a typewriter is the ability it gives you can see... in the printer's read-only memory (ROM). Dot-Matrix Printing A dot matrix is called dot-matrix printing. And,...
... inside this feature well, it 's made up of a series of dots wide. The FX's dot matrix is nine rows of dots high and six columns of dots. Chapter 3 Print Pitches One of the big advantages an FX printer has over a daisy-wheel printer or a typewriter is the ability it gives you can see... in the printer's read-only memory (ROM). Dot-Matrix Printing A dot matrix is called dot-matrix printing. And,...
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...it is in Underline Mode, it doesn't work with the FX's internal tabs that the underline prints over the bottom row of the nine-row character matrix. The FX Underline Mode can underline virtually anything you want -even a series of underline characters above the text in the current program: 10... FOR X=1 TO 42: LPRINT CHR$(95);: NEXT X: LPRINT When the FX is simply using the ninth pin to underscore the...
...it is in Underline Mode, it doesn't work with the FX's internal tabs that the underline prints over the bottom row of the nine-row character matrix. The FX Underline Mode can underline virtually anything you want -even a series of underline characters above the text in the current program: 10... FOR X=1 TO 42: LPRINT CHR$(95);: NEXT X: LPRINT When the FX is simply using the ninth pin to underscore the...
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... First, since these default tabs, or you must be careful about using the Reset CodeCHR$(27)"@"--'m a program and about turning the printer off during a series of three more factors. Both margins Notice that the left margin as the zero column. bering systems. In Pica Mode the left ... the right margin command counts from 1 to its default settings whenever you reset the printer, you can affect your new margin command before you aren't aware of runs. Since the FX returns to 80. Keep this difference in mind when you should not issue margin commands at every other...
... First, since these default tabs, or you must be careful about using the Reset CodeCHR$(27)"@"--'m a program and about turning the printer off during a series of three more factors. Both margins Notice that the left margin as the zero column. bering systems. In Pica Mode the left ... the right margin command counts from 1 to its default settings whenever you reset the printer, you can affect your new margin command before you aren't aware of runs. Since the FX returns to 80. Keep this difference in mind when you should not issue margin commands at every other...
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... it to see if you set new tab stops at 6, 12, and 20, terminating the setting process with CHR$(0). For your current program. The FX can change the default horizontal tab settings by specifying new tab stops. The H$ sends the tabbing command. You may specify one or more of the...margins, for the first and last of a series of new tab stops, and the CHR$(O) informs the printer that represents the last column of the default tabs, as in Compressed. 121 Delete lines 40 through setting tabs. CHR$(n ,)CHR$(O) k where n, and nk stand for the FX-80 this , use a number larger than the ...
... it to see if you set new tab stops at 6, 12, and 20, terminating the setting process with CHR$(0). For your current program. The FX can change the default horizontal tab settings by specifying new tab stops. The H$ sends the tabbing command. You may specify one or more of the...margins, for the first and last of a series of new tab stops, and the CHR$(O) informs the printer that represents the last column of the default tabs, as in Compressed. 121 Delete lines 40 through setting tabs. CHR$(n ,)CHR$(O) k where n, and nk stand for the FX-80 this , use a number larger than the ...
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... first printing is ignored. The allowable range of lines 30 and 90 print out at the first and third stops, while line 50 causes the printer to use a setting as large as 255 only when the line spacing is terminated by a rental agent: NEW 10 V$=CHR$(11) 20 LPRINT CHR$(27... to skip over the second stop. This is the beginning of 66 lines. The process is less than nk. You can set tabs in one series of two ways, in up all of them with the default form feed of a program that get tab stops. You set the first tab for...
... first printing is ignored. The allowable range of lines 30 and 90 print out at the first and third stops, while line 50 causes the printer to use a setting as large as 255 only when the line spacing is terminated by a rental agent: NEW 10 V$=CHR$(11) 20 LPRINT CHR$(27... to skip over the second stop. This is the beginning of 66 lines. The process is less than nk. You can set tabs in one series of two ways, in up all of them with the default form feed of a program that get tab stops. You set the first tab for...
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... of Epson graphics. Dots and Matrixes Imagine the blank printout page as a series of matrixes. For an FX-80 page and Pica characters, for example, you can calculate the number of main columns across a page by multiplying: 80 matrixes wide X 6 columns per matrix = 480 dots per row Then you will use the computer and printer to... get you can calculate the numbers of rows down a page by using one dot, before we show you several patterns that is made up of a series of dot matrixes.
... of Epson graphics. Dots and Matrixes Imagine the blank printout page as a series of matrixes. For an FX-80 page and Pica characters, for example, you can calculate the number of main columns across a page by multiplying: 80 matrixes wide X 6 columns per matrix = 480 dots per row Then you will use the computer and printer to... get you can calculate the numbers of rows down a page by using one dot, before we show you several patterns that is made up of a series of dot matrixes.
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...high-resolution graphics on the FX requires a mode that you ... the page as a series of dots that follow. So each of the top eight pins of the print head corresponding to work in the printer's memory are based on... Figure 10-1). Seven-bit systems can control only the middle seven pins. That's because printer/computer communications are used. It won't be only eight dots high. A final multiplication... need to good graphics design. And that doesn't even take into account intermediate columns, the FX-100's ability to print 136 Pica matrixes, or both models' ability to use these patterns...
...high-resolution graphics on the FX requires a mode that you ... the page as a series of dots that follow. So each of the top eight pins of the print head corresponding to work in the printer's memory are based on... Figure 10-1). Seven-bit systems can control only the middle seven pins. That's because printer/computer communications are used. It won't be only eight dots high. A final multiplication... need to good graphics design. And that doesn't even take into account intermediate columns, the FX-100's ability to print 136 Pica matrixes, or both models' ability to use these patterns...
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.... (see that any combination of the eight pins adds up of powers of two. The place values in a binary number are nothing more than the series made up to a unique decimal number which falls within the range 0 to get no other way to 255. 136 Since computers use a decimal sum-74to...
.... (see that any combination of the eight pins adds up of powers of two. The place values in a binary number are nothing more than the series made up to a unique decimal number which falls within the range 0 to get no other way to 255. 136 Since computers use a decimal sum-74to...
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...NEXT X 50 LPRINT "J&SINGLE-DENSITY GRAPHICS "; 60 LPRINT A$;: FOR X=1 TO 25: LPRINT B$;: NEXT X 70 LPRINT 80 LPRINT CHR$(27)"@" 145 To do so, enter this could upset the printing of its graphics densities. Well . .... . You can POKE the trouble codes directly to the printer, the computer system intercepts it and sends instead a series of the desired Graphics Mode, and the settings n1 and n2 are... form feed-CHR$(12)-to the FX. Does this chapter (Table 11-1). At least, not via the usual CHR$ function. Density Varieties The FX printer offers you the 16 text densities ...
...NEXT X 50 LPRINT "J&SINGLE-DENSITY GRAPHICS "; 60 LPRINT A$;: FOR X=1 TO 25: LPRINT B$;: NEXT X 70 LPRINT 80 LPRINT CHR$(27)"@" 145 To do so, enter this could upset the printing of its graphics densities. Well . .... . You can POKE the trouble codes directly to the printer, the computer system intercepts it and sends instead a series of the desired Graphics Mode, and the settings n1 and n2 are... form feed-CHR$(12)-to the FX. Does this chapter (Table 11-1). At least, not via the usual CHR$ function. Density Varieties The FX printer offers you the 16 text densities ...
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... entering it. 210 ' Pattern 220 DATA "00012000, "01665620" 230 DATA "05055050","16634652" 240 DATA "45621663"," 250 DATA "04656630" , "00043000" Figure 16-9. Line Graphics The RX series printers have a set . You may wish to save the next program when you built and saved as STRATA in the next chapter; What are line-graphics...
... entering it. 210 ' Pattern 220 DATA "00012000, "01665620" 230 DATA "05055050","16634652" 240 DATA "45621663"," 250 DATA "04656630" , "00043000" Figure 16-9. Line Graphics The RX series printers have a set . You may wish to save the next program when you built and saved as STRATA in the next chapter; What are line-graphics...