Star Micronics 8111 Printer User Manual


 
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Selects same symbol set as primary font
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Selects the current font’s symbol set
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Selects all the default font’s attributes (not just
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symbol set)
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Example: Symbol set commands
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Let’s take a short look at how you use these commands. Here’s the scenario:
You am already using the Tms Romn typeface, but want to use the Gennan
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symbol set as you am writing a report for your Berlin office and need umlaut
characters for several names in the report.
Then in the report you decide to use a proprietary product name, so want to
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nip out to grab the @ symbol on a legal cartridge font you’ve already loaded,
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then return to your German set. When your report’s all done, you want to
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return the printer to its Roman-8 default.
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Here are the commands that will do the job for us:
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(you s&-t your report here)
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(you finish your report here)
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<ESC> ( O@
If you had finished with <ESC> ( 3@ the printer would return to its standard
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Courier font, not just its Roman-8 symbol set.
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Spacing
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If you specify monospaced for a font, each character prints with the same
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width. But if you specify proportional spacing the design of each character
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