Star Micronics XR-1020 Printer User Manual


 
Select g-pin graphics mode
Mode ASCII
Decimal
Hexadecimal
Std.
<ESC> “N n0 nl
27 94 n0 nl
10 5E n0 nl
n2 ml m2 . . .
n2 ml m2
. . . n2 ml m2 . . .
Selects one of eight graphics modes depending on the value of n0
and prints g-pin bit-image graphics in this mode. The graphic image
is 9 dots high and nZ + n2 x 256 dots wide.
n0 Graphics mode
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0 Normal-density
1 Double-density
2 Double-density, double-speed
3 Quadruple-density
4 CRT graphics, mode I
5 Plotter graphics
6 CRT graphics, mode II
7 Double-density plotter graphics
( 60 dots per inch)
(120 dots per inch)
(120 dots per inch)
(240 dots per inch)
( 80 dots per inch)
( 72 dots per inch)
( 90 dots per inch)
(144 dots per inch)
Maximum width is 8 inches for normal carriage printer, and 13.6
inches for wide carriage printer. ml, m2, . . . are byte pairs repre-
senting 9 vertical dots each.
In the leftmost position, the most significant bit of ml is the top dot;
the least significant bit of ml is the second dot from the bottom; the
most significant bit of m2 is the bottom dot; and the other bits of m2
are ignored. Other byte pairs are similar. The number of data bytes
must be 2 x (nl + n2 x 256). Dots beyond the right margin are
ignored. At the end of bit-image printing the printer returns auto-
matically to character mode.
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