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CHAPTER 8
CREATING YOUR
OWN CHARACTERS
Subjects we’ll cover in Chapter 8 include-
* Designing your own characters;
l Printing your own characters;
l Print mode and the download characters.
In the previous chapters of this manual you’ve learned how to
control the printer to give dozens of different typefaces. By us-
ing various combinations of pitches, character weights, and font
selections, you can create nearly any effect you want to in text.
And with international character sets and the special text and
big characters described in Chapter 7, you can print almost any
character you think of.
But if “almost any character” isn’t good enough for you, then
it’s a good idea you have this printer! With it you can actually
create your own characters. As you’ll see in this chapter,
download characters can be used to print a logo, special
characters for foreign languages, scientific and professional ap-
plications, or any other specific printing task.
DOT MATRIX PRINTING
In order to create download characters, you’ll need some
understanding of how dot matrix printers work. The process is
called dot-matrix printing because each character is composed
of small dots arranged on a matrix, or grid. To see how that
character grid gets printed, you need to take a look at the print
head itself.
The printhead in this printer contains 24 wires apparently ar-
ranged in a vertical column. If you were to remove the print
head and look at the wires, you would see two staggered col-
umns of twelve wires. However, the timing is such that they
print as one continuous column of 24 wires.