Star Micronics Delta Printer User Manual


 
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Delta User’s Manual
Figure Y-10. The attribute byte (n2) for our heart character.
You’ll probably recognize ml. . .mll from the top of our lay-
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out grid. That’s right, each column is described by one byte. Now
we’ve got everything we need to download one character to the
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printer. The complete command for our heart character is shown
in Figure 7-11.
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CHR$(27) CHR$(42) CHR$(I) CHR$(72) CHR$(ll) CHR$(4)
Escape *
1
n,
n2 ml
CHR$(lO)CHR$(2O)CHR$(IO)CHR$(52)CHR$(72)
m2
4
m4 m5
3
CHR$(52)CHR$(lO)CHR$(20)CHR$(lO) CHR$(4)
m,
me m,
9, ml,
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Figure 7-11. This is the complete command to send our heart character to the JJelta
printer.
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Now let’s send the information to the printer. The following
program will send the character definitions for all four characters
to the printer. Enter the program and run it.
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10 FOR I=1 TO 4
2@ LPRINT CHR$(27) "*" CHR$(l);
39 READ Nl,N2
4p LPRINT CHR$(Nl) CHR$(N2);
5pI FOR M=l TO 11
69 READ Ml
70 LPRINT CHR$(Ml);
80 NEXT M
90 NEXT
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