Homelite HL-1270N Printer User Manual


 
10/10/03
CHAPTER 6 EPSON - 21
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.
6.6. Using customized characters
Define characters
Esc&NULn
1
n
2
(n
3
<character definition data>) (27)(38)(00)n1n2(n3....)
<1Bh><26h><00h>n1n2(n3...)
This command enables you to define and download characters for printing.
Monospaced characters are designed on a grid eleven dots wide by nine dots high. Characters either
occupy the top 8 rows of the grid (ascending characters) or rows 2 to 9 of the grid (descending
characters).
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
Blank columns
Character width
Rows 1 - 8
Replication area
Rows 2 - 9