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2001/10/02
CHAPTER 6 EPSON - 21
Select expansion of printable code area
Esc6 (27)(54) <1Bh><36h>
• This command enables you to print characters whose character codes are in the range 128 to 159.
• You can define your own characters and assign codes in this range to them.
LPRINT CHR$(27); CHR$(54); 'Expand printable area
Cancel expansion of printable code area
Esc7 (27)(55) <1Bh><37h>
This command prevents you from printing characters with codes in the range 128 to 159.
LPRINT CHR$(27); CHR$(55); 'Cancel codes 128–159
Expand printable code area
EscIn (27)(73)n <1Bh><49h>n
• This command permits you to enable or disable the printing of characters whose character codes are in
the ranges 0 to 31 and 128 to 159. You can define your own characters and assign codes in these
ranges to them.
• Set n to 1 to enable printing of characters in the ranges 0 to 31 and 128 to 159.
• Set n to 0 to disable printing of characters in the ranges 0 to 31 and 128 to 159.
• When you specify the value for n you can use the character codes for ‘0’ and ‘1’ (48 and 49) instead
of 0 and 1 if you wish.
LPRINT CHR$(27); CHR$(73); CHR$(1); 'Expand printable area
Select international character set
EscRn (27)(82)n <1Bh><52h>n
• This command selects one of the available international character sets, refer to the printer User Guide
for supported character sets.
• Each character set varies slightly from the others and contains a small number of special characters
necessary for printing in that particular language.
• The selection you make with this command does not affect any italic or graphics character table
selection that you may have made with the Esc t command.
• The character sets listed below, plus several others, can also be selected from the printer’s control
panel.
• The character sets available and the corresponding values of n are as follows:
US ASCII 0 Japanese 8
French I 1 Norwegian 9
German 2 Danish II 10
UK ASCII I 3 UK ASCII II 13
Danish I 4 French II 14
Swedish 5 Dutch 15
Italy 6 South African 16
Spanish 7
• If you have selected the graphics character table with the Esc t 1 command the following additional
character sets are available.
Norwegian set I 17 IBM set I 19
Norwegian set II 18 IBM set II 20
LPRINT CHR$(27); CHR$(82); CHR$(3); 'Select British char set
Select italic / graphics character table
Esctn (27)(116)n <1Bh><74h>n
• This command allows you to choose between two character tables - the italic character table and the
graphics character table.
• The two tables are shown in the Epson FX-850 section of the appendix at the end of this manual.
•
Set n to 0 to select the italic character table. Character codes in the range 160 to 255 are now italic
characters.
• Set n to 1 to select the extended character table. Character codes in the range 128 to 255 are now
foreign language and graphics characters.
• You can still print italic characters using the Select Italic Mode, Esc 4, command even when you have
selected the graphics character table.