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igure l-l. Check to make sure you have all six items: 1) Printer, 2) Mute cover, 3) Paper guide, 4) Platen knob, 5) Ribbon cartri

92 the same way. Make up some grids (photocopy Figure 8-3 if you wish) and get ready to be creative! (Just in case you are not fe

1 123458789 128 64 32 1st 18 byte 8 4 2 1 I 128 84 32 4 2 1 ASCII Data code: 2nd 18 Left space: We 8 Right apace: 128 1st: 84 32 I 8 2nd: 3rd: 3rd

94 dots, the printhead would have to slow down and back up to print both dots-not very efficient! To avoid this inefficiency, this

95 which we’ll get to shortly. 1st byte 2nd bvte r 3rd byte 123456769 d3zEl 126 64 32 16 6 4 2 1 126 64 32 16 6 4 2 1 126 64 32 32 16 16 6 6 4 4 2

96 create proportional width characters that print at draft speed. When defining draft characters, the number of printed col- umns (m

for user-defined characters, but a caution is in order. Characters with ASCII values below 32 are usually reserved as control codes by

! 98 You’ll probably recognize dl d2 . . . . dx from the top of our layout grid. That’s right, each column is described by three b

99 When you run this program, it looks like nothing happens. That’s OK. We’ll see why in just a moment. Save this program. We’ll ne

50 LPRINT 60 FOR I=160 TO 254 70 LPRINT CHR$(I); 80 NEXT I 90 LPRINT 100 LPRINT CHR$(27) ;“;%O”;CHR$(O) 110 END Nope! Just two character

To demonstrate how to use these characters, let’s use this character set to print a small graph. This program, which has been buil

3 tion and movement for both removing and replacing the cover. I Figure l-2. Remove the printer cover by lifting carefully. n Removing

102 ‘.. ; STEP 50 ); 370 LPRINT 380 LPRINT CHR$(9) 390 FOR I=0 TO 488 400 LPRINT CHR$(61 410 NEXT I 420 LPRINT 430 LPRINT "JAPAN" 440 FOR I=

103 Note that we didn’t hnvc to re-enter the download characters, since they were already sent to the printer with the first pro-

104 THE PRINT MODE AND THE DOWNLOAD CHARACTERS In the example program above, before we defined the new characters, we selected the

105 together horizontally than draft style dot columns (the horizon- tal dot spacing is l/MO-inch when printing LQ characters - as o

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4 To get at these, remove the printer cover from the printer. Then remove the screws with a Phillips screwdriver as shown in Figure

L Figure 1-5. Press the cartridge into place until the holding springs snap into place. 1. Turn off the power and remove the printer

6 3. Using the guide holders as a fulcrum with the ribbon fac- ing away from you, as shown in Figure 1-5, lightly press the cartr

I ,I:, 7 Up to this point, we’ve been clearing the decks for action, so to speak. There are only a couple more things left to do

8 n Installing the font cartridge This printer is mounted the Prestige characters as standard. You can add two different character st

CHAPTER 2 GETTING TO KNOW YOUR PRINTER Subjects we’ll cover in Chapter 2 include - l Parts of the printer - what they’re for and how to u

Mute cover Printer cover Font cartridge slot ’ Interface cover L Figure 2-1. Front and rear views of the printer. INTERFACE COVER - On t

11 SLOTS FOR FONT CARTRIDGES - These are the two openings at the bottom right of the front of the printer. Insert- ing an optiona

Federal Communications Commission Radio Fre 3 uency Interference tatement This equipment generates and uses radio frequency energy and if no

TOF KEY - Ejects the current sheet, feeds a new sheet, and moves the print head to the left margin. PAPER FEED KEY --Advances the

foration skipping. See Appendix A for a complete list and ex- planation. SELECTING AND LOADING PAPER Your printer can handle the two

n Loading single sheets Now, instead of feeding the paper in manually by turning the platen knob, we’re going to use the release l

._ . . L,. i. 6. L. L L. L L. L 15 I Figure 2-5. Prop up the paper guide by inserting the guide stand in the notches provided for it.

16 6. Align a sheet of paper on the guide along the adjuster. 7. Turn on the power switch. (The Paper Empty indicator will glow

17 I Sprocket cover Figure 2-7. Open the sprocket covers to expose the sprocket teeth. pigure 2-8. Ready to run with sprocket-feed paper

18 11. Set the release lever to the auto-feed setting. The printer will advance the paper automatically. 12. When the paper stops,

19 Figure 2-10. The adjustment lever allows for different thicknesses of paper. You shouldn’t have any trouble finding the right gap

Self-test 1 DIP switch 2-2 ON ‘+,-./0123456769:;<=,?BABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPORSTUVWXYZ[\] DIP switch 2-2 OFF !“t$t&‘()*+,-./0123456784:;~=~?@ABC

cdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz(~)- cdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz( I)- cdefghlJklmnopqr~tuvwxyz(~)- cdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz(: )- cdafghljklmnopqr~tuvwxyl(l)- c

A Special Message to the New Owner Congratulations for choosing this printer, one of the finest available at any price. Your new pr

1. Plug in the printer (don’t turn it on yet). 2. Insert a sheet of paper, as you did for the self-tests. 3. While holding down

23 1. Plug in the printer (don’t turn it on yet). 2. While holding the TOF key and the Paper Feed key, turn on the power switch

24 you can reset it by the following procedures. 1. Set the Off Line mode by pressing the On Line key. 2. While holding the Prin

I. Make sure that both your computer and printer are turn- ed off. 2. Connect the printer end of the interface cable to the con-

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CHAPTER 3 USING COMMERCIAL SOFTWARE Subjects we’ll cover in Chapter 3 include- . Using your printer with SuperCalc; l Using your printe

28 need to know to use your printer as a regular printer. But this printer isn’t just a regular printer. Your printer has many cap

29 . . simultaneously pressing a letter key. The particular letter key that is pressed determines what code is sent. Control and A s

are now available. It has the capability of using several of the ad- vanced features of your printer. Perhaps the most often used f

cessor handles it. Once you understand the concept you should be able to use your program manual to figure out how your word proce

Table of Contents Chapter 1 Setting Up Your Printer Where shall we put it? What have we here? Removing the printer cover Removing the

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Subjects we’ll cover in Chapter 4 include- * Listing BASIC programs on the printer; l Printing from BASIC; l CHR$ function; l Command s

c LPRINT things other than character strings. We started with Microsoft BASIC because it is the most wide- ly used version of BASIC a

35 BASIC program. Generally, computers use about the same pro- cedure for printing in a program as they do to list a program. Let’

36 Where did that noise come from? That’s the printer’s bell. We will learn more about it in Chapter 5. We just wanted to il- lu

L”. i. c, L- cc. L c... I-. 37 ending with 0. So for out example above, any of these BASIC statements will have the same result: LPRINT

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CHAPTER 5 PRINTING TEXT Subjects we’ll cover in Chapter 5 include- * Letter quality (LQ) characters; l Underlining and overlining; l Super

40 printing, for it takes a keen eye to detect that it is from a dot matrix printer. Normally, your printer prints draft quality

Function Control code Selects font slot 1 (ESC) “k” CHR$( 1) or (ESC) “4” Selects font slot 2 (ESC) “k” CHR$(2) Selects internal charact

Chapter 4 Controlling with BASIC Some basics about BASIC First steps Establishing communications The CHR$ function Control codes The escap

42 Table 5-3 Underline and overline commands 1 Function 1 Control code I Underline ON (ESC) “-“l Underline OFF (ESC) “-“0 Overline ON (ES

43 with boldface printing. The following table shows the control codes for getting into and out of boldface mode. Table 5-4 Boldface

44 ; . Table 5-5 Superscripts and subscripts commands Function Control code Superscript ON (ESC>“S”O Subscript ON (ESC)“S”l Super and sub

45 Pitch Pica Elite Table 5-6 Print pitch commands Characters/inch Control code 10 (ESC) “P" 12 (ESC)“M" Try this program to see ho

46 Demonstration of EXPANDED printing. Notice that EXPANDED mode automatically turns off at the end of a line. Expanded print set with

I / ? :’ 47 n Condensed print Each of the print pitches also can be condensed to its normal width. This is called condensed print. T

48 100 LPRINT CHR$(27);"P"; 110 LPRINT "This line is NORMAL PICA pitch." 120 LPRINT CHRS(27);"Wl"; 130 LPRINT CHR$(15);

49 Table 5-9 Proportional commands Function Control code Proportional ON (ESC)“p”l Proportional OFF (ESC)“p”O Try this program to see how t

50 Here, the value of n defines the print style to be selected. The value of n can range from 0 to 255, which is the range of va

51 For example, suppose you turn on both Proportional and Con- densed modes. Since these cannot combine the printer must make a cho

Chapter 7 Special Features of the Printer 73 Now hear this Resetting the printer Putting your printer to sleep Printing the bottom of t

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- CHAPTER 6 FORMATTING TEXT Subjects we’ll cover in Chapter 6 include- * The carriage return and line feed; l The amount of space betwee

54 print head to the left margin, ready to start a new line. Now to add a little confusion-most (but not all) versions of BASIC

THIS LINE SPACING IS SET TO 9 THIS LINE SPACING IS SET TO 10 THIS LINE SPACING IS SET TO 11 THIS LINE SPACING IS SET TO 12 THI

56 When you are using your printer with the DIP switch 2-2 off, the (ESC)“A”CHR$( ) n works to change the line spacing without (ESC

Table 6-2 Line spacing commands Function Control code Set line spacing to l/8 inch Set line sDacinz to 7160 inch (ESC)“O” (ESC)“l” 1 Set

58 The (ESC)“J”CHR$(lOO) in line 50 changes the spacing to 100/180 inches for one line only without moving the printhead. The rest

59 ,____ iv------- -------- - 1 LINE NUMBER 1. 0, LINE NUMBER 2. I 01 I OI I I -- ------ - ---- ------_-__ I LINE NUMBER 3. 0 ; LINE

This program should print “PAY TO THE ORDER OF:” twice, and they should be 7 inches apart. Line 20 sets the form length to 7 inche

50 FOR I=1 TO 150 60 LPRINT "THIS IS LINE";1 70 NEXT I 90 LPRINT CHR$(lZ); 100 END ' Form feed When you run this program it will

Chapter 9 Dot Graphics 107 Comparing dot graphics with download characters Using the dot graphics command Specifying the number of colum

62 THIS IS LINE 2 THIS IS LINE 4 THIS IS LINE 6 I THIS IS LINE 54 THIS IS LINE 5.5 THIS IS LINE 56 THIS IS LINE 57 I THIS IS LINE 58 0

SETTING LEFT AND RIGHT MARGINS The left and right margins of this\printer work just like a typewriter - once they are set all the

64 on, or you can set margin values equal to the default values. This means that you should set a left margin of 0 and right ma

65 , . 15 LPRINT CHR$(27);“D”;CHR$(7);CHR$(l4);CHR$(21); CHRS(O) ; (ESC)“D” is the command to begin setting horizontal tabs. It must be foll

66 Table 6-7 One-time horzontal tabs Function Control cde One-time horizontal tab of n spaces (ESC) “f” 0 CHR$(n) Absolute horizontal tab (ESC)

67 Table 6-8 Units of motion for the relative horizontal tab command Print style Unit of motion Draft characters l/120-inch LQ characters

68 set at line 20, a vertical tab (or <VT>) will move you to line 20 whether you start from line 5 or line 19. The vertic

69 Add one more line to the program to demonstrate one more feature of vertical tabs. 80 LPRINT CHR$(ll):"FIFTH TAB." Now when

70 Table 6-9 Vertical tab commands Function Control code Advance paper to next tab position CHR$(ll) Set vertical tabs at nl, n.2, etc. (ESC)“B”CH

71 120 LPRINT “2ND TAB OF CHANNEL’* ; I 130 LPRINT CHR$(12); 140 NEXT I 150 LPRINT CHR$(27) ;“@” 160 END When you run this program you

,. ‘_ .,. ,,; Appendix G Serial Interface Specifications Configuring the serial interface The serial protocols Serial busy protocols XON

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CHAPTER 7 SPECIAL FEATURES OF THE PRINTER Subjects we’ll cover in Chapter 7 include- * Printer’s bell; l Master reset; l Uni-directional

mind an operator to change the paper or to make another adjust- ment to the printer. You can try this by typing: LPRINT CHR$(7) n Res

. _~, ,. 75 Table 7-1 Some miscellaneous commands Function Cotitrol code Sound bell CHRW) Master reset (ESC) “@” --- I Off line I On line Paper-

76 90 LPRINT CHR$(24); I 100 LPRINT "DOES NOT WORK" Here is what this program will print: BACKSPACE DOES NM WORK DELETE DOES WORK

77 riage return code.) To end this program and print the contents of the buffer, press RETURN alone. Now add this line: 10 LPRINT CH

78 This command can be used to produce micro-justification, which is a method of justifying lines by increasing the space be- tween ea

, L Try this program to see the difference that printing in one direction makes. 10 ’ Uni-directional printing 20 LPRINT CHR$(27);“A”;C

8n power on condition. You can also set the printer to print in one direction for one line only by using the (ESC) “(” command.

10 LPRINT CHR$(27);"0"; 20 LPRINT CHR$(27);"6"; 30 FOR J=3 TO 6 40 LPRINT '* ";J;CHR$(J);CHR$(9); 50 NEXT J 60 LPRINT &a

I CHAPTER 1 SETTING UP YOUR PRINTER Subjects we’ll cover in Chapter 1 include- . Choosing a suitable place for your printer; l Unpacking

82 3v 128 5; 133 A 138 & 143 A 148 ii 153 ij 158 pt 163 13 168 i 173 i 178 1 183 1 188 3 193 -l- 198 f= 203 ii= 208 JL 213 r 218

83 If you have a 7-bit interface, add the following lines to the pro- gram given above: 15 LPRINT CHR$(27);">"; 95 LPRINT CHR

84 The characters that change are shown code in Table 7-6. Table 7-6 International character beneath their ASCII sets - n Printing BIG c

90 LPRINT “THIS IS “; 100 LPRINT CHR$(27);“h”;CHR$(2); 110 LPRI NT “QUAD” ; 120 LPRINT CHR$(27);“h”;CHR$(O) ; 130 LPRINT ” SIZED PRINTING.” 140 LPRI N

86 THIS IS DOUBLE SIZED PRINTING. THIS IS QUAI) SIZED PRINTING . n g-pin graphics emulation mode As you had learned in Chapter 2, this

. . L ; L. 87 When the automatic sheet feeder is installed, you must set the DIP switch 2-4 on to detect the paper-out condition. In

Most BASICS, however, are not quite that straight forward. For example, the IBM-PC prints like the following. Notice that your print

CHAPTER 8 CREATING YOUR OWN CHARACTERS Subjects we’ll cover in Chapter 8 include- * Designing your own characters; l Printing your own c

90 - Figure 8-1 shows an enlarged schematic view of the front of the printhead, showing the ends of the wires and their relation- s

91 But there is another area of memory in this printer reserved for user-defined characters. These are characters that you can desig