Epson 8000 Manual

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IBM Emulation Mode Commands Arranged by Topic

ESC

A

Format:

Print One Character from Symbol Set

ASCII code:

ESC

A

c

Decimal:

27

94

c

Hexadecimal: 1B 5E c

Comments:

Prints a single character

(c)

from the symbol set. See the

Appendix for the symbol set and the codes to use for

c.

ESC

=

Format:

Define User-defined Characters

ASCII code:

Decimal:

Hexadecimal:

Comments:

ESC

=

nl

n2

.

.

.

.

.

nk

27

61

nl

n2

.

.

.

.

. nk

1B

3D

nl

n2

.

.

.

.

. nk

If

C

is the total number of characters to be defined,

B

-

(C

x

13)

+

2

nl

=

BMOD256

n2=

INT(B/256)

n3

=

20

in all cases

n4

=

the

codt

of the first

character

to be defined

n5

=

0 if the top 8 pins are used;

n5

=

128 for the bottom 8

@ns

n6==Oinallcases

The values n7 through nk are the data numbers that define the

characters, with

11

data numbers for each character.

You determine the data numbers for each character as shown on

the

first grid for Epson

ESUP

mode in

tht

section

on

ustrdtfimd

characters

irt

Chqttr

4.

To print a

user-defined

character,

you need

to use the

ESC

I command, which

is

described on page

9-46.

9-50

command summary