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Custom Font Commands: Epson & IBM
Note: Custom characters are not saved when the printer is turned off.
Epson FX Custom Font Command
ASCII Hexadecimal Decimal
ESC & m n
1
n
2
a d
1
... d
11
1B 26 m n
1
n
2
a d
1
... d
11
27 38 m n
1
n
2
a d
1
... d
11
This command is used to define up to 256 character patterns and store the patterns in
RAM. The matrix size used to define the characters is 11 horizontal dot columns x 8
vertical dot columns. Used with Utility mode only.
The first portion of this command—ESC & NUL n
1
n
2
—is used once to set up the printer
for the characters to be stored.
The second portion of this command—a d
1
... d
11
—is used repeatedly, once for each
character to be defined and stored.
Parameter m
Use NUL (00H, 0D) for parameter m. This parameter sets the area of RAM used to store
the data.
Parameters n
1
, n
2
Parameter n
1
is used to set the location of the first character to be redefined and parameter
n
2
is used to set the location of the last character to be redefined.
If less than 256 characters are to be defined, all character locations (addresses) must be
consecutive from the starting character.
•n
1
, n
2
= 0 to 255 decimal
Parameter a
Parameter a sets the character type, according to the values assigned to its 8-bit definition.
• a = 0 to 255 decimal