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Trademark Acknowledgements LaserPrinter 4: Star Micronics Co., Ltd. PageMaker: Aldus Corporation BitStream, Zapf Humanist: Bitstream Inc. Canon: Canon Inc. HP, LaserJet ffP: Hewlett-Packard Company LaaerControl: Insight Dcvelcpment Inc. IBM PC: Intematicmal Business Machines Corp.
PREFACE About this manual This Star LaserPrinter 4 Applications Manual gives you the information you need to program the Star Micronics LaserPrinter 4. Why would you read this book? Most people using a laser printer just run software packages with built-inprinter drivers, which look after everything theircomputers send their printers.
What’s in this manual? ● In “Getting to Know Your Star LaserPrinter 4“ we provide a list of the features that make this a splendid printer, to help you choose which feahues you want to exploit. There’s a bit on how laser printers work, inside and out.
Conventions Incidentally, one of those Technical Supplement tables suggests a couple of typographic conventions we’ll use. Base ten (decimal) numbers will gener- ally be used here; if we have to use base sixteen numbers (hexadecimal) we’ll expressly say so.
TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 GETTING TO KNOW YOUR STAR LASERPRINTER 4 1 1.1 Star LaserPrinter 4 Hardware . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . . . .. . . . .. . . . .. . . .. . . .. . . . ................1 1.2 Star LaserPrinter 4 Software . .. . . . .. . . .. . .
Getting to Know Your ‘” “ Star LaserPrinter 4 T& chapter introduces both the hardware and software aspects of the Star LaserPrinter 4’s personality, from fonts and print engine to ASCII and Escape sequences. 1.1 STAR LASERPRINTER 4 HARDWARE 1.
The Star LaserPrinter4 is ideal fordesktoppublishing. The pages it produces make perfect photocopy or instant-print masters. And all the main desktop publishing systems, including Aldus Corporation’s PageMaker and Xerox Ventura Pubisher, work splendidly with the Star LaserPrinter4.
1.2.3 How your Iaserprinter communicates Your computer communicates with the Star LaserPrinter 4 through either apardef cable or one of two kinds of serial cable.
I 1.2.5 The Print engine It’s the print engine that-forms the actual characters and graphics. The engine directs its laser, a pinpoint stream of light pulses, through mirrors and lenses onto the surface of a positively-charged rotating drum.
1.2 STAR LASERPRINTER 4 SOFTWARE 1.2.1 Binary and hexadecimal arithmetic 1f you already know what hexadecimal numbers are, you can skip this section and go ahead to read about ASCII. The decimal number system with which we’re all familiar is a positional counting system.
The important thing to realize is that there’s more than one way to show the same numeric value. Computer programmers, for example, occasionally use the hexadecimal system because it’s so compact.
ox 27 = o 1 x 26 = 64 0 x 25 = o 0 x 24 = o 1 X 23 = 8 0 x 2’ = o 1 x 21 = 2 0 x 2° = Q 74 Decimal zone digits 0100 1010 Binary 4 A Hexadecimal The ASCII table in the Technical Supplement shows all these equivalent ~presentations for the symbols your laser printer understands.
Control codes mostly handle communications between your computer and the printer at the lowest level, at cable level. For example, a couple of control codes make sure the printer buffer (your printer’s storage memory) doesn’t overflow.
1.2.5 Printer drivers Most software packages ahvady include the printer commands they need. The programs that send commands to the printer so you don’t have to enter them yourself a~ called printer drivers.
1.2.7A BASIC example Here’s an example you can type in right now, to clarify what we’re saying. It’s written in Microsoft BASIC for a computer that uses the MS-DOS operating system, so if you have a different computer or BASIC you may have to translate a bit.
1 Most programming languages, and some versions of BASIC, let you treat the printer as a file to which you can send data. When you write a program with one of these languages you “open” the printer file, print into it, and then “close” the file when you’re done.
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Controlling Your Printer Youcancontrol your Star LaserPrinter4 in two ways, eitherthmughcontrol panel parameters or through software comrnana!s. In this chapter we will consider printer controls mostly from the perspective of the control panel. However, we’ll also meet four special commands, the Star LaserPrinter 4 superset.
[TEST/ >] button forthrec secondhand release itjust after STATUS SHEET is displayed when the laser printer is offline, it finishes printing the current page and then feeds in and prints a status sheet. Some buttons on the panel let you perform two functions.
● the power-on settings in effect when you first turn on the printer, ● your initial settings for one particular session, ● and the current settings that the printer is using now.
I It’s actually pretty easy. Flipping through and setting parameters from the panel is described in detail in the Star L.userPrinter 4 Operations Manual. Basically, all you do is press the [ < ] or [ > ] buttons to scroll through the sequence of possible parameters and values, which is clearly shown on the panel display.
Serial interface: rate If you ask for the Serial interface you’ll have to tell your printer more about how the data will be coming in-in particular its rate and unit size and the meanings of any special bits. The Rate parameter specifies how fast data will be arriving, measured in baud (named after the French communications engineer Jean Baudot).
Some pmgrammem call the XONand XOFFcontrol codes “kiss on and kiss off’ others call the same protocol DC1 and DC3 (for device control). Either way, these codes let your printer run the show, telling the computer when to start and stop sendingdata.
● Hewlett-Packard LaserJet 11P ● Epson FX-850 Other laser printers may offer such emulations too, but often require instal- lation of a new circuit board for each emulation. Star Micmnics has built these two emulations into the Star LaserPrinter 4.
I 2.2.6 Hints: The hex dump . ● ● ● To make your Star LaserPrinter 4 ‘print in hexadecimal rather than the usual ASCII symbols, press the control panel buttons that put the printer offline and in PROGRAM mode. Move to the EMULATION parame- ter’s HEX DUMP setting and select ON.
For the Feeder value of this PAPER FEED parameter, you first enter either multi-purpose tray, manual feed or cassette (option) to indicate where you want paper fed from. The multi-purpose tray handles various types and sizes of paper (htter, Legal, A4, B5, Executive, OHP sheets, Labels, Envelopes).
I ● If you frequently change paper weights, you will probably get skewing problems— lines that print at an angle because of misfeeding. For best results, when your Star LaserPrinter4 is first setup have the paper feeder “squared” for paper of at least 60 grams.
I 2.3.3 The LAYOUT parameter The layout or@mat or setup of a page refers to how text is positioned on the page. Layout includes page orientation, margins and the spacing of characters across and lines down the page. You can control these with the LAYOUT parameter.
Margins, columns and lines You canchangemargin settings for all four edges of a page. The left and right side margins can have values fmm O to 132, defining the margin columns between which words and images can be printed. And the top and bottom margins can be set at anywhere from O to 112 lines.
line-feed commands. You can also move to tab settings both horizontally and vertically (handy for tables and blank forms, or making room for your diagrams).
Font attributes: a preview Orientation (portrait or landscape as described earlier) is usually thought of as one attribute of a font; it’s not really a page formatting issue.
I include printer drivers, which send commands to the printer so you don’t have to type them yourself. Some of those programs ask you to key in set- up paramettm about your printer. Other programs let you put printer commands before or inside the document you want to print.
I When you start a new emulation you always start a new page. Note: always send Carriage Return and Form Feed (control codes <CR> and -@F>) just befo~ you give this Change Emulation command. These force the printer to print any partial page in its memory and start a new page with the new emulation.
tation command you may want to follow it with Escape sequences to change the side and top margins and paper length settings. (Alternatively, you could put the printer offline and reset these fmm the control panel, as described under LAYOUT earlier.) 2.
I For the value of n you enter a number from this table: for one sheet, then switches to the n PAPER FEEDER 1 Multi-purpose tray 2 Multi-purpose tray optional cassette 4 Optional cassette 5 Optional c.
tie fonts you use determine what your pages will look like. In this chapter we’ll first clari~ the meanings of words people use when they talk about fonts. Next we’ll examine the three kinds of fonts (internal, cartridge and down- loaded) that you can use on your Star LaserPrinter 4.
Narrow condensed faces used to be called “compnxsed”. They cram about five charactem in the space where three usually go--ideal for spreadsheets. An extended face, particularly on a dot-matrix printer, goes by several names: “expanded, ““enlarged” or’’double-width’ ’printing.
The o has been kerned The font height (24 points) is measured closer to th- f. from ● scender to descender. I 4 A font is a complete set of Ascender - characters in a particular Descender 1 size and type[ ace. Baseline Uu Proportional Swif spacing L;ading is tho baseline to baseline m~asuremcnt.
3.2 HOW THE STAR LASERPRINTER 4 STORES FONTS 3.2.1 Bit-mapped fonts Star Micronics has earned a reputation for attractive, well-designed fonts on its printers, and this laser printer continues the tradition. The Star LaserPrinter 4 uses bit-mapped fonts.
3.2.3 Cartridge and downloaded fonts Your Star LaserPrinter 4 can use two other kinds of fonts, along with those built into the printer. Curtridge fonts, like the internal ones, are permanently stored on ROM chips. The difference is that those ROMs are in removable cartridges.
3.2.4 Hints: Where to get fonts ● You canprint anydowrdoadable font that works onthe HP LaserJet IIP. Several other companies sell downloadable fonts which are compatible with your Star LaserPrinter4. The Bitstream Corporation in Boston is one of the more populm, Conographic is another.
3.3 SYMBOL SETS Let’s summarize briefly, to put the subject of symbol sets in context. The attributes of a font determine what that font will look like when it is printed. We covered all but orientation at the start of this chapter, and orientation in the last chapter.
You probably won’t change symbol sets very often, unless you need special symbols for your trade or regularly write in a language other than English. When you do need them, though, inone oranotheremulation mode your Star LaserPrinter 4 supports symbol sets for all these countries: U.
Besides these, all internal fonts default to portrait orientation, upright style (not italics) and medium boldness. The table below shows theirotherdefault attributes: Typeface Spacing Pitch Font height Courier monospaced 10 12 point LinePrinter monospaced 16.
I to get to its possible values, press [ > ] to scan through them, and finally press [ v ] to slap in the value you want. The procedures for selecting a font from a computer program is a bit mom complicated, and depends on which emulation mode you are using.
3 . Optjonal fonts M o f a f y S L 4 c i i f T c g y m v i s s s f h s a s w T y C f f e y m a i a b l o m s s a s r f 7 t 1 p o f o d t t A y S M d a c o d f t f H l d f L G p f B c o c r f u p c 3.
T w k y c f “ t d y s w s p b s c O l l a a c o e 3.4.6 Downloading a font: example one E o i f a c r j M S y b H e C S f a w t d t r ( i a b c T H d l f e f a C C a C N I c y i t H c f C 1 d e R ( .
P C T a a “ c i t P i t c a d f f a t f r i a b T p a i y w t c a f c A t a i t W f m f t Y f y A P h m t f d f w y w p o t W f c W a k i t f d y w t a A t s r t t H p d i t A P f y c e T i F n o y .
● A l c e a s o h p s i p n u y c m t y A s a s t m s t h t d t b p a i p a h i a m s ● S p m p a d e f a n t f t f f p m t m r f t n f T a c m g s i y s y p w o p i a c n I k t p R f b o H t d t .
HP LaserJet IIP ‘” “ Command s ‘ H e L 1 i a e k o y S L a 4 Y s h n t r m p s p i H L 1 m a t p l c s L I c B t L 1 i a l p t i c c g y m c o y S t t i p w t o b c s Y w p u t e c m t t o R t.
T i d m L H d f t o p e m F a E s e w a c l I y d m t l c u y p w k w t E s e a w t f c a p o t s c S i L H c e n o c y p a t < c i a a A s W t o e u a n y p a a < c i a c i t p i t A t F e t L .
H a w y c s y a f k t i t c t h t s c o p a j o l E s T c c t w t t - a c o p j o a c o t l c c h F e t d t s w a c f f t p f y m s t c < (S 1 < (S 7 < (S 3 w w s i botiface Cowzkr.
4.2.2 Set number of copies Y c p u t 9 c o e o t p y s t t p Y m s t c a w t t o a p i w s i e f t a a s p u y s a s c < & X A y h t d i c t n s i t c t t n o p y w ( t a t a l L 4.
1 T p w f p a p l i i m b r t p a R c u t f f y p m A p f o m y h d h w s b t a y s a r c P a t f a d a t e o t c “ F s 4.2.5 Example: Printer controls L s w h w w p t c t S y h j t o y l p a s L I .
4.3 P O Y m r t o p o a a p f i T p w w o a p h e l i e h t l o i b S o r i a a f a a i t a s l o i t c 4.3.1 Page Length T p t y h i s t d p s f y l p W y w a s a w y c t t y n t r t p s Y s a c t p .
O R P S @6 L n @ L P P P P L L L L Executive L A L E L A L 6 8 6 8 7 9 8 1 4 5 5 6 4 6 * 5 * P l o l p i t F s o p m a s t c - & a t c t o t l A e S y w t m p l p a e l p i T f c c m f w t p l <.
Y c s t l m f o t t r m U t f c t s t l m s n t b t c n w y w t l m t s < & a n L S i t s t r m y s t c w y d c . < & n M I y w t p b l a r m b t t p p l i o w t “ t s m s t c < 9 4.
< & F T P L T M a T L c t w t t s t b m b m = p l – ( m t l T b m i c t “ r w p t u c o f Y n w t s t p b t c o p b s y d ( e w y p l T y l w o w t d i t S L 4 w l y c i t b m t I y c t p b t b m r t y m l w o g i t u n r a t e o t p T c l l t < & L I y w t a p b t b m f n e O ( B i y w t f p b t m w i t d e 1 ( 4.
A i p w a w t p t o o f b t n b m A w w f p l r t s m s w c s t o u f w H a t c t w p t f f u < & 1 . & 1 c & I O ( s o p h < 9 4.4 M T P P 4.
4.4.2 Lines per inch T v l i c g y m o t j t s o e l p i o e p U t c t s h m l y w i e v i o y p < & D F n y e t n o l p i y w a o 1 6 , o 4 I y e a n o t t t p w i t c 4.
I 4.4.5 Defining line depth T l d ( c t “ m i s h f d a p t p p w m f e l f Y p w u t l d a m a l i L d c b m p b i i a e t c T l d c i m o l o a i T i f a t l d i t w y c i y a c t a m o a “ W y .
4.4.7 Horizontal moves: by columns, decipoints and dots T m t p p h a n o c s t c c & n C i w f n y e t n o c y w t m t p p S t m t c 4 y s t c c & 4 B t m 4 c t t r o t c p p y s < & +.
I Y c a m t c 8 c a a t h b u o t h o t c S s a t c < t d t R t i n p 4.4.8 Moving the print position vertically Y c u s u t m t p p v l d o d e B l a d c b f t t d p Y c a m t p p u d f t t e o t .
i w f n y e t n o d y w t m t p p d ( p t n w a + o s i y w t m u o d f t c p F y c m a n o d d f t t e o t p o y c m a n o d o d f t c p p T m t p p u o d a a o d s t c < * n Y i w f n y p e t a n o d d o ( b a + o – s t r n o d u o d f t c p S t m 2 d d y s t c < * 2 A t m 2 d u y s < * – 4.
I M t p p b d n d a c a s I f b o t t c c b q u I l y s u o c o a S y w t i a b s a t l b w a s i a o p r s J s t b a t f i w < a t s a y g t ~ 4.4.12 Carriage return The C R c b i o m t p p b t t l m o t l o w i c s <cFb I y w t p p t m d a l a w s a s L F c e t o u D A L E ( e b t c t t c c 4.
4 . Define automatic line endings W y p t C R k w d y e t h M p t a c k s w l a t w a C R s a n l a w B c p d h t s t t a S p ( p g p w a C R t j m t p p b t t l e o t p A t w a L F t m d t a n l w g .
I A i o w t p g a c t w p b t r m i m t p p f t c b t t l a o l d ( R a L F T A c w l a t s dnc> &s n c I f n e O ( t t w m w a B i f n y p 1 ( t a w o c w n h T d i y d s a c i n w N E w A i o t p w p b t r m i y h s o o t d p c d a w m t p p p t m A n t A d m t w w d t t n l t a j f a w p n y l p 4.
A y m s t c i f c p t u t m c d l i t c T p o p a p p y s t c c & n S F n y e O t p ( t c p p o 1 t p ( t l p s o t l N T l p p o t l w a b t f o p b l 4.
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4 . Selecting downloaded fonts T e w t s a d f i t u f I n W y d a f y m t A F I c a t f c i y s ( “ t d y o f l i t c A y a a I n t a d f y c s i a y p f w t S F I c < ( n X i w n i y d f I n I y u m f y u t c t s a t B w i y p t j u < o < t s b p a s f Y w t s a d f I a y s f T i t c t s < ) n X 4 .
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I S a s s T first s s c l y s a p s s f t c f T s a s s f y p f s t c < ( n F n e o o t f s c T f c m b a d a t s a u l C n S S O M s O L D c O I 6 N O R E O 1 2 F O H G 0 1 1 I O J A O E L 1 0 O O.
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T u T r p j p t c i i f o y p d < & n X F n y s t n o b o d y w t p D F l t T p c p E s a c c w a e t B D F p a t C R c s t l m l t w i n p D F a p c a b n a s D F a i t E s o t t i o a a t t i o T t o D F s t c j b t d y w d < Y A t t o D F s t c a t e o t d p d < Z T E Z s i p a a b f b a Z 4 .
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4 . Example: Assigning font numbers N l d a p i B F w a f n t t C a L i m f a t a c fI P C T w p s o e f 1 L C ( ; “ ( ; . L C ( : “ ( s : 1 L C ( 1 ) : 1 L C ( 2 ) : “ ● c I ; 1 L C ( 2 ) : “ ● C 6 ; 1 L C ( ; “ ( ; 1 L C ( : “ ( . 6 .
4 U Y O F 4.6.1 Font design is tedious A w f d i a a D e t t o p l f i a f h S o t y h t b y o t e i y d w w a c i t f b Y m f e w t p y o c c l I m b u c w a c o g p 5 d h a 3 w l o d B d y o t i s t.
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MEANING o-1 header length 2 blank 3 font size 4-5 blank 6-7 baseline position for charactem 8 blank 9 cell width 10 blank 11 cell height 12 orientation 13 spacing 14-15 symbol set 16-17 pitch 18-19 li.
to describe and map your character. Sixteen bytes are needed for the description; the bit-map takes as many bytes as you’ve put into each character cell— perhaps two or tie hundred bytes. As with the font header, each byte in the character description is a number, sent as the symbol at that position in the ASCII table.
4.7 GRAPHICS The Star LaserPrinter4 offers two kinds of graphics. It prints ru.stergraphics (sometimes called “bit-mapped graphics”), which specify each dot in a graphics pattern. And it prints pattern gruphics, which prints lines and patterned blocks.
I The command to start graphics must be transmitted next. This command is: <ESC> *r n A where n can take a value of either O or 1. When n=O, the margin for printing graphics will be the left-most printable edge of the page (this is not necessarily the same as the left text margin).
way other than the TIFF format will produce very strange results! Repeat sending lines of graphics data, prefixed by the above command, until the whole image has been transmitted. To signal the end of graphic data transmission, send the following com- mand: <ESC> * r B There are no parameters.
When the printer finishes its print “map” of your rule or pattern, the print position automatically returns to the spot from which you started. That means, for instance, that you can make a lightly shaded rectangle and then start printing text right over it.
I pattern you want. You always send the Specify Pattern command befo~ the Print Pattern command, even if you want a solid black rule. To indicate the particular pattern you want, send the following command.
If you want a linear pattern, for n you enter here a pattern number between 1 ~d 6 inclusive, identifying one of the linear patterns below. #1 #2 #3 #4 #5 #6 You always send the following Print Pattern command after Pattern command.
4.Z5 Examples: Pattern graphics To specify a block five inches wide you could use a horizontal dimension of 1500 dots (5 inches times 300 dots). That command would look like this: <ESC> *C 1500A.
For example say you want to delete a macro numbered 80. You would first select that macro with the command cESC> &f 80Y. Then you would delete it with the Macro Control command cESC> &f 8X as described below. 4.8.2 Macro Control The Macro Control command performs several jobs for you, such as defining, mnning and deleting macros.
macro. As with the “call macro” option, this one saves current parameters and print position, and restores them when the macro is finished. An automatic macro will terminate if you change orientation or page length. 5 Turn off automatic macro. Starting with the current page, this option terminates the last specified automatic macro.
Lines 500 through 700 select the 180-dot deep and 7200-dot wide pattern and print it. Line 800 does the form feed that forces the actual printing. Line 900 ends the downloading process.
Commands The small-carriage FX-850 is one of Epson’s more recent dot-matrix printers. Because of the popularity of the IBM Personal Computer, which was marketed with a modified Epson printer, thousands of software pro- grams already work with Epson printer commands.
But some commands include two n variables, which am shown as nl and n2. These normally ~pmsent bytes to be added together to produce one sum, in which nl represents single units and n2 represents 256-unit groups. Finally, a few commands can have many n variables (such as tab stops), which am listed the same way.
left-to-right (unidirectional) printing control <ESC> U print quiet (half speed) <ESC> S print immediate (“incremental” or “typewriter” mode) <ESC> i 5.
I 5.3 FORMATTING PAGES 5.3.1 Page /ength You can define page length in either inches or lines-a matter of personal preference. When you first start FX-850 emulation your printer sets the page length to 11 inches and 66 lines. The deftition of a “line” depends on the lines-per-inch spacing.
For example, say you have set the page length to 84 lines (legal size paper at 6 lines per inch), with the top-of-page 8 lines down. You then send: <ESC> N16 This will give you 81ines oftopmargin(impliedby yourtop-of-page setting) and 8 lines of bottom margin.
5.3.3 Side margins To set the left margin to a particular column you send this command: <ESC> tn in which n is the column number for the left margin. (Note that the character t is a lowercase L.) CohunrI width is determined by the current pitch (for example 1/12 inch for 12-pitch), or is set at 1/10 inch for proportional spaced text.
DESIRED LINE SPACING COMMAND EXPLANATION 1/8 inch <ESC> O (zero) 7f72 inch <ESC> 1 (one) 1/6 inch <ESC> 2 (the default) increments of 1/216 inch <ESC> 3 n (in which n is the number of inc~ments, maximum 255) increments of 1/72 inch <ESC> A n (in which n is the number of increments, maximum 85) 5.
I 5.4.3 Carriage return The printer moves the print position back to the left margin when you send a carnage return control code. The print position will not move down to the next line (unless on the control panel ’smenu you have set the Auto Line Feed parameter ON): <m 5.
5.4.7 Left-to-right printing The FX-850 normally prints bidirectionally, with the print position moving alternately left-to-right and right-to-left. Cutting down printhead motion does speed up printing for those earlier styles of printer— though it hardly compam with laser printing.
Tocomplete the command, forn2 youenterthe number of full groups of256 inc~ments you want to move. And for nl you enter the number of increments left over. Confused? Hem’s an example. This command: <ESC> $141 moves 14+ (256 x 1)=270 increments from the left margin.
is a tab stop every eight columns. Column width depends on the horizontal spacing being used when you give this command. If you change pitch later, that won’t affect tabs. To clear the old and set new tab stops, send this Set Horizontal Tabs command: d3SC> D d n2 .
To remove all venical tab stops, send this command: <ESC> B dW.JL> 5.4.12 Veflical tabs in channels This next pair of commands, which lets you store and use several different sets of vertical tabs, is rarely used.
I 5.5.2 Orientation The FX-850 emulation has no command to change orientation, so use the Select Orientation superset command if you need to pnntin landscape mode.
Spain I 7 Japan 8 Norway 9 Denmark U 10 Spain II 11 Latin America 12 The particular symbols the command will give you are shown in the chart below. (xxJNTRY 35 36 64 91 92 91 94 96 123 124125 126 US (.
I 5.5.5 Most significant bit Very few computem still send just seven bits to their printers, the way the Apple II+ and TRS-80 did. But if you find yourself in this situation all is not lost. You can still gain access to the symbols in the upper half of the FX- 850 symbol set (either italics or character graphics) with the following three commands.
5.5.7 Character spacing FX-850 emulation lets you control the amount of space inserted after charactm, sometimes called the oflset. You might want, for example, to justify a line of print yourself. With the Character Spacing command you can add to the distance each character advances, in increments of l/120th inch.
To shift into condensed print, send either of these commands: <S1> or <ESC> <S1> Condensed print will stay on until you select a different print mode or send the following Cancel Condensed print control code, which returns printing to the 10-pitch default: <DC2> 5.
5.5.12 Style FX-850 emulation lets you use italics charactem without defining italics as a separate font, since it can store italics in the upper half of its symbol set.
5.5.14 Typeface The Star LaserPrinter 4 uses Courier font as its default FX-850 font. You use the Select Emulation superset command to switch into another emulation to select a cartridge or downloaded font, but you won’t be able to bring that font back into FX-850 mode.
I An example: Proportional bold extended looks good as a title. To get it you add up then values for those three (2 + 8 + 32 = 42), and send the command: <ESC> ! 42 5.5.17 Subscripts and superscripts Subscript mode prints characters at half of the normal heighti in the lower partoftieline space.
I 5.6 GRAPHICS If you are using a commercial graphics program, such as Lotus 1-2-3, you won’t need to use the commands in this section. Usually you’ll just draw your image on your screen and then send it to the printer.
Each FX-850 emulation graphics command you send does three things: it turns on the graphics mode, specifies horizontal density, and says how many columns wide the coming graphics data will be. Graphics commands all print at the same vertical density or “resolution”— 72 dots per vertical inch.
COMMAND NAME single density double density high-speed double density quadruple density screen graphics I plotter graphics I (single density) screen graphics II plotter graphics II (double density) MOD.
column of the table above. If you don’t use a valid mode number, the printer will ignore the command. So this ’’all-purpose” graphics command means you can do our first example two different ways: <ESC> K 1500 and <ESC> * O 1500 5.
128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 128 64 32 16 8 4 2 1 ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ● ❝ ● o 0 0 0 0 0 0 ) first byte second byte To print nine-pin graphics, send this command before your graphics data: <ESC> A d d ti The variable d is a number indicating density.
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I Technical Supplement l%is final chapter in your Star LaserPrinter 4 Applications Manual holds two main sections. The first on will help you with your programming job, while the last provides the symbol set tables. We’ve summarized all commands in ASCII order here.
I 6.1 COMMAND SUMMARY 6.1.1 HP LaserJet 11P Emulation Printer Commands Command CBS> -m-r> <LF> . <m <m <so> <S1> <ESC> &a n C 4E3SC> &a n H <ESC> &.
Command <ESC> ( n @ <ESC> ( n X <ESC> (s n B cESC> (s n H <ESC> (s n P d3SC> (s n S <ESC> (S n T <ESC> (S n V <ESC> (S n W <ESC> ) n <ESC> ).
Command Function Page <ESC> Y Enable display function 75 *SC> z Disable display function 75 <ESC> [ C n Select paper feeder 29 <ESC> [ E n Change emulation mode 28 <ESC> [ O n Select orientation 28 <ESC>[ S n Select paper size 29 <ESC> Z Self test 47 6.
Command Function <ESC> 4 Select italic characters CEsc> 5 Select upright characters <ESC> < One-line unidirectional printing CEsc> = Set MSB of received codes to be O <ESC> .
Command 43SC> 6n <ESC> p n <ESC> t n <ESC> w n Function Page Set left margin 98 Select./cancel proportional spacing 107 Select character set 105 Select/cancel double-height charac.
I 6.2 SYMBOL SETS This section gives tables of the symbol sets for the Star LaserPrinter 4. The decimal character code of each character is shown in an inset to the lower right of the character. The hexadecimal code can be found by reading the entries at the top and left edges of the table.
ID Number Symbol Name OD 1S0 60: Norwegian.
ID Number Symbol Name OE Roman Extension.
ID Number Symbol Name OF 1S0 25: French I <S1> <us> F o # 128.
ID Number Symbol Name OG HP German.
ID Number Symbol Name 01 1S0 15: Italian I 01234 567 I 49n law.
ID ,. Number Symbol Name OK JIS ASCII 131.
ID Number Symbol Name ON ECMA-94 Latin 1 132.
ID Number Symbol Name ON ECMA-94 Latin 1 (cont.) 133.
ID 134.
ID Number Symbol Name Ou US-ASCII E o 1 EEi 01 cNULJ o 16 <oCl> 1 17 ..,.-. I 8 24 ‘ I 40 56 72 I 88 I104 1120 <FIT> 9 <Et+ ) ~ 9F IE YE IE YE p E ,- -,,.
ID Number Symbol Name ID o 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 B c D E F <NULJ I -P I-3i 1S0 61: Norwegian 136.
ID Number Symbol Name IE 1S0 UK 137.
I ID Number Symbol Name IF 1S0 69: French.
ID Number Symbol Name IG 1S0 21: German I 8 I 24 ‘ I 40 I 56 I 72 I 88 Ill 9 <HT> (EM> ) 9F IF YE iw YE p ~ E <M> A <SUB> * : J z j z Em E E F F lxx R <VT> cESCJ — +— .
ID Number Symbol Name 1s HP Spanish 1 I I 15! I 31] ‘ I 47] I 631 I 791 —1 95 140.
2K ISO 57: Chinese ID Number Symbol Name 141.
ID 142.
I ID Number Symbol Name 2U 1S0 IRV 2 I — 1 I 21 I 181 I 341 1 501 I 6[ I I 1- ! I ‘1 191 “’ I 351 I 51] 1 671 I 8 I I I 6 I I I 9 I I A t I B t c D E — I I 141 1 301 1 461 I 62] I 71 r F 14.
ID Number Symbol Name 3s 1S0 10: Swedish 144.
ID Number Symbol Name 4s ISO 16: Portuguese 145.
ID Number Symbol Name E o 1 I I I 1] I 171 I 33] I m I 65[ ‘~ 12 I — ! I 21 I 18] m–m I 3 I 4 15 t , . . , 1 7. 1 1 J, D E I I I 141 I 301 I 46] rd ‘“ m L F.
ID 147.
8U Roman-8 ID Number Symbol Name 148.
ID Number Symbol Name 8U Roman-8 (cont.) 149.
ID Number Symbol Name 10U IBM-PC(US) 150.
I ID Number Symbol Name 10U IBM-PC(US) (cont.) o 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B c D E F 151.
ID Number Symbol Name 1lU IBM-PC (Denmark/Norway) 152.
I ID Number Symbol Name 1lU IBM-PC (Denmark/Norway) (cont.) 153.
ID Number Symbol Name 12U PC-850 154.
I ID Number Symbol Name 12U PC-850 (cont.) 155.
156.
LIl ASCI1, 6-11 ASCII symbol set, 37-39,105 attributes. See font attributes Autowrap command HP LaserJet IIP mode, 61-62 m backspace commands FX-850 mode, 99 HP LaserJet IIP mode, 59-60 baseline, 32 b.
double-density graphics FX-850 mode, 114-115 double-strike print, 31 FX-850 mode, 110 double-width print FX-850 mode, 109 downloadable fonts, 35,41-43 drum, 4 DTR protocol, 18 m elite characters, 33 e.
ml graphics character, 105 FX-850 mode, 104,113-117 HP LaserJet HP mode, 83-89 nine-pin, 116-117 . pattem,86-88 plotter, 115 Bzl hexadecimal arithmetic, 5-6 HEX DUMP parameter, 20 high-order bi~ 107 h.
m networks, 44 nine-pin graphics, 116-117 number of copies command HP LaserJet IIP mode, 48 m ON L~ button, 13 optional fonts, 41 orientation. See font orientation outline fonts, 36 m page design, 40 .
reset commands FX-850 mode, 95 HP LaserJet HP mode, 48-49 resident fonts. See internal fonts right margin commands FX-850 mode, 98 HP LaserJet IIP mode, 51-52 ROM, 3,34 reman style.
I-YJ vertical motion index. See VMI vertical print position, 58-59 vertical tab commands FX-850 mode, 103-104 VMI, 24 HP LaserJet IIP mode, 55 L!Y.-l WYSIWYG, 40 ml XON/XOFF prot(xol, 18 162.
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