Star Micronics 8 Series Printer User Manual


 
defaultsettings.
Whenyouwantto selecttheoppositeorientation,sendthis command:
<ESC>&tn O
in whichfor n youput Oto getportraitorientation,
or 1to getlandscapeorientation.
(Notice:the/character afterthe&is a lowercaseL.)
Symbol sets: a review
Eachfontcanhavemanysymbolsets,eachbeingasubsetof allthepossible
characters of the font. These subgroupsinclude different symbols for
different nationsor for lawyers or artists or mathematicians.Any two
symbol sets, moreover,may store the same symbol at a differentfont
positionin theprinter’smcmory.
ThedefaultLaserJetIIemulationsymbolsetisRoman-8,whichincludesall
ASCIIcharactersplusdozensof accentedletters.Butyoucanuseanyofthe
sets shown below. Technicallyyou can pair any symbol set with any
internal,cartridgeordownloadedfont;howeveritdocsn’tmakemuchsense
to printtextwitha mathor line-drawingsymbolset.
LaserJetHmodeprovidestwo differentsymbolset commands.Youput a
codeintoone commandto selectaparticularsymbolset for yourprimary
orsecondaryfont.YouU.SCtheothercommandtoselectthecurrentordefault
symbolset foryourprimaryor secondaryfont.
Selecting a symbol set
Thisfirstsymbolsetcommandletsyouselectaparticularsymbolsetforthe
current font. To select a symbol set for your primary font, send this
command:
<ESC>( n
For n enteroneof thefollowingsymbolcodes.The firstcharactermustbe
a digitandthe secondan uppercaseletter.
CODEn
SYMBOLSET
OA
Math-7symbols
OB
LineDrawcharacters
OD
1S0 60:Norwegian
OE
RomanExtension
OF
1S0 25:French
OG
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