Star Micronics XB-2420 Printer User Manual


 
AnappropriatenameforthissetupfdewouldbeLQELITE.DAT.Tousethe
DOSlineeditor,typethecommandEDLINLQELITE.DAT,thentypethe
underlinedpartsofthefollowingdisplay.PressRETURNattheendofeach
line.Donottypethesymbol“A”.ThissymbolmeanstoholdtheCTRLkey
downwhilepressingthenextkey:forexample,‘V meanstotypeCTRL-V.
N meansto typeCTRL-C,whichindicatestheendof the input.
A>EDLIN LQELITE. DAT
New f i 1e
I s*‘V [x I ‘V [ ! ‘VA
2 : *‘c
*E
AVindicatesthat the followingcharacteris a controlcode.‘V[ entersthe
<ESCScode.cESD has charactercode27, and“[” is the 27thcharacter
fromA intheASCIIsequence.Similarly,‘VA entersthecontrolcode<1>.
SeeyourDOSmanualif youneedfurtherinformationaboutEDLIN.
You can now set up the printerby sendingit the fileLQELITE.DAT.To
avoidunnecessaryloggingof commands,switchhard-copyoutputoff (by
pressingCTRL-PRTSCifhardcopyison).ToprintthefileREADME.DOC
in LQ elitetype,givethe followingtwo commands:
A>COPY LQELITE . DAT PRN
A>PRINT README. DOC
Forgreaterconvenienceyoucanmakeabatchfilethatwillsetuptheprinter
andprintanyspecifiedfilewitha singlecommand.To createsucha batch
filewiththe nameLQPRINT.BAT,typeinthefirstfourlinesshownnext.
AZmew to
pIESStieCTRL andZ keyssimultaneously.TO We thk file to
printREADME.DOC,typethe fifthline.
A>COPY CON LQPRINT . BAT
COPY LQELITE . DAT PRN
PRINT %1
‘z
A>LQPRINT README. DOC
The firstline aboveis a copycommandfromtheCONsolescreento a file
n~ed LQpRrNT.BAT.Thenexttwolinesarethecontentsofthisfile.The
%1isadummyparameter:whateverfilenameyoutypeafterLQPRINTwill
be substitutedfor %1 andprinted.
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