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Using Different Character Sets
The printer incorporates a special character set: Epson Character
Graphics. This set allows you to take, advantage of the power of the
Epson commands and still print out the character graphics used by IBM
and IBM-compatible computers and by much commercial software. For
example, if your word processor can include the characters to draw
boxes and shade areas, you can produce some very professional effects.
You can select the Epson Character Graphics set with your software or
by setting DIP switch l-3 ON. For most applications it is best to use the
DIP switch instead of the software command because the character
graphics are then available as soon as you turn the printer on.
The other important change you can make to the standard character set
is to change some characters for ones commonly used in other
languages-chiefly European and Scandinavian-such as accented
characters and symbols. Eight international character sets can be selected
by setting DIP switches 1-6 to 1-8: USA, French, German, UK, Danish,
Swedish, Italian, and Spanish. See Chapter 5 for the DIP switch settings.
These eight, and five more, can also be selected by a software
command. The additional character sets are the following:
Norwegian, a second Danish set, Japanese, a second Spanish set, and
Latin American. The table on the next page shows all of these
characters.
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