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Trademark Acknowledgements LaserPrinter 8: Star Micronics Co., Ltd. PageMaker: Aldus CqSOraticsr Apple II +, Applesoft: Apple Computer Inc. BitStream, ~apf Humanist: Bitstream Inc. Canon: Canon Inc. Centronics: Centronics Data Computer Corporation HP, LaserJet Series H: Hewlett-Packard Company LaserControl: Insight Development frrc.
PREFACE About this manual This Srar LuserPrinter 8 Applications Manual gives you the information you need to program the Star Micronics LaserPrinter 8. 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 8“ we provide a list of the features that make this a splendid printer, to help you choose which features you want to exploit. There’s a bit on how laser printers work, inside and out.
● The final “Technical Supplement” containing the command and charac- ter reference tables will probably get thumbed the most. Conventions Incidentally, one of those Technical Supplement tables suggests a couple of typographic conventions we’ll use.
TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER 1 GETTING TO KNOW YOUR STAR LASERPRINTER 8 1 Star LaserPrinter 8 Hardware ... ... ..... .... ..... ..... ..... ...... ..... ..... ..... . .. .... . ......1 Star LaserPrinter 8 Software ... .. . .... ... .. ... .... ... .... .
CHAPTER 6 IBM PROPRINTER COMMANDS 125 Proprinter Commands ... ..... ..... ..... ...... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ..... ...... ..... ..... . .. 125 Controlling the Printer ..... ... . . . .. ... .... .. .. ... ... .. .... ... ... .... . . ... ... .
This chapter introduces both the hardware and software aspects of the Star LaserPrinter 8’s personality, from fonts and print engine to ASCII and Escape sequences. STAR LASERPRINTER 8 HARDWARE Versatility Your Star Micronics Star LaserPrinter 8 works with practically all commcr- cialsoftware programs and computers.
The Star LaserPrinter 8 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 LaserPrinter 8.
How your Iaserprinter communicates Your computer communicates with the Star LaserPrinter 8 through either a parallel cable or one of two kinds of serial cable.
The Print engine It’s tie 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.
STAR LASERPRINTER 8 SOFTWARE Binary and hexadecimal arithmetic If 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.
o x 27 1 x 26 0 x 25 0 x 24 1 x 23 0 x 22 1 x 2’ o x 2° zone 0100 4 = o = 64 = o n o = 8 =0 = 2 = Q 74 Decimal digits 1010 Binary A Hexadecimal The ASCII table in the Technical Supplement shows all these equivalent representations for the symbols your laser printer understands.
I Control codes mostly handle communications between your computer and the pnnter.at the lowest level, at cable level. For example, a couple of control codes make sure the printer bufler (your printer’s storage memory) doesn’t overflow.
Printer drivers Most software packages already include the printer commands they need. The programs that send commands to the printer so you don’t have to enter them yourself are called printer drivers.
A BASIC example Here’s an example you can typo in right now, to clarify what we’re saying. It’s written in Microsofl 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.
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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:-m - ,’ ,. .; . ; ,. ,: ,, .:.. ,. ,’ , ,’.: ~:,, ,. .., ,,.,,. ;,, $. ‘ ~~• ‘eotitroiling’r’ ‘ ● - -,,vd&fipfi3$6+;;:,i; ,. You can control your Star LaserPrinter 8 in two ways, either through front panel parameters or through software commands.
I printing the current page and then feeds in and prints a status sheet. Some buttons on the panel let you perform two functions. Holding one of those buttons down, rather than quickly pressing it, selects a different operation.
Factory settings arc programmed into the Star LascrPnntcr 8 when it is built at the factory. Your printer keeps the factory settings for iLs parameters in ROM; they ncvcrchangc. You can copy thcm iruo the current settings or any other settings as needed.
and scroll through a lower menu level. And you also press ENTER when you want to save a particular menu itcm as the value for a current parameter setting. The three last menu headings let you load one version of the parameters into another version. Two move the current parameter values into either the initial or power-up parameters.
The Rate parameter specifies how fast data will be arriving, measured in baud (named after the French communications engineer Jean Baudot). pick any of the following data transfer rates: 300 baud 600 baud 1200 baud 2400 baud 4800 baud 9600 baud (the default) 19200 baud.
I DTR (Data Terminal Ready) protocol does the same thing slightly differ- ently. The, printer sends a continuous high-voltage signal over the cable as long as it can accept data, but drops the voltage to say “whoa” to the computer. Conversely, it’s the computer that holds the reins with the ETX/ACK (End- of-text/Acknowledge) protocol.
Printer emulations OK, you’ve got your pnntcr and computer conncctcd properly. Now Ict’s focus on how your pnntcr works. Your Star LaserPrintcr 8 understands and uscs the same commands as several earlier kinds of pnntcrs.
I The Command parameter The Star LaserPrinter 8’s Emulation setting defines which printer it is imitating: Hewlett-Packard LaserJet series II, Xerox Diablo 630, Epson EX–800 or IBM Propnnter. Most of the other COMMAND values below can be changed with Escape codes as well as from the panel.
I Hints: The hex dump ● To make your Star LaserPrinter 8 print in hexadecimal rather than the usual ASCII symbols, press the front panel buttons that put the pnntcr offline and in PROGRAM mode. Move to the COMMAND parameter’s HEX DUMP setting and select ON.
With the Star LaserPrinter 8 you can print on a variety of ordinary cut sheet pages. For the Feeder value of this PAPER FEED parameter, you first enter either cassette or manual feed to indicate where you want paper fed from. The cassette tray automatically feeds single sheets, much like sheet fecdem on other types of printers.
Hints: Paper, labels and transparencies . . ● ✎ ✎ The best paper for the Star LaserPrinter 8 has a smooth finish and is of 20 to 24 pound weight. Any paper designed for photocopiers should do the trick though; Xerox 4024 and Canon NP print nicely.
. . . — When printing starts fading because the toner is low, remove the cartridge and gently rock it back and forth half a dozen times. Don’t tip it up or the toner may spill out. Redistributing the toner powder this way can keep the cartridge going for another tray of paper.
The LA YOUTparameter The layout orformat 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 can change margin settings for all four edges of a page. The left and right side margins can have values from O to 132, defining the margin columns between which words and images carI be printed. And the top and bottom margins can be set at anywhere from O to 112 lines.
P Moving the print position: a preview Wlthdot-matnx and daisywheel printers, you pick whereto print on the page either by moving the pnnthead back and forth or by moving the paper itself.
CONTROLLING THE PRINTING The EMULATE ATT../BUTES parameter The EMULATE ATTRIBUTES parameter defines font attributes and setup values (if any) for each of the Star LaserPrinter 8’s four emulation modes. A font’s attributes or characteristics determine what that font will look like when it is printed.
THE STAR LASERPRINTER 8 SUPERSET Do you need to send commands? Here’s an important fact: you can set nearly every one of the above pararnctcrs by sending your printer a corresponding Escape sequence command. Those Escape sequence commands will override any setting you make from the front panel.
The Change Emulation command You can think of the supcrset Change Emulation command as the key to your Star LaserPrinter 8. The Change Emulation superset command lets you switch from one set of printer commands to another “on the fly,” through software.
The Select Orientation command The Select Orientation superset command lets you change the “attitude” in which the Star LaserPrinter 8 prints. To change from one orientation to the other you send .
The Paper Size command The Paper Size superset command lets you change the paper size in which the Star LascrPrinter 8 prints. This is the command that defines what size the Star LaserPrintcr 8 will accept.
The Paper Feeder command The Paper Feeder supersct command lets you change the paper feeder from which the dual-cassette type printer feeds paper. To change the paper feeder you send the Paper Feeder .
I Select Simplex/duplex mode (DX type only) You can change between simplex and duplex mode using software com- mands in any emulation mode. The command to do this is: <ESC> [ D n where n is an ASCII value of either “1” or “2”.
The fonts you use determine what your pages will look like. In this chapter we’ll first clarify 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 8.
Narrow condensed faces used to be called “compressed”. 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 the f. from ● scender to descender. I 4 A font is a complete set of ~ characters in a particular ~~~~~~~ t size and type~ace. B.ss@line Uu Proportional Serif spacing L;ading is the baseline to bas-line measurement.
HOW THE STAR LASEI?PRINTER 8 Bit-mapped fonts STORES FONTS Star Micmnics has earned a reputation for attractive, well-designed fonts on its printers, and this laser printer continues the tradition.
Cartridge and downloaded fonts Your Star LaserPrinter 8 can use two other kinds of fonts, along with those built into the printer. Cartridge fonts, like the internal ones, are permanently stored on ROM chips. The difference is that those ROMs am in removable cartridges.
I Hints: Where to get fonts ● You cati print anydownloadable font thatworks on the HP LascrJctseries II. Several other companies sell downloadable fonts which are compat- ible with your Star LaserPrinter 8. The Bitstream Corporation in Boston is one of the more popular; Conographic is another.
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 speciaI symbols for your trade or regularly write in a language other than English. When you do need them, though; inone oranotheremulation mode your Star Laserl%intcr 8 supports symbol sets for all these countries: U.
I The Epson EX-800 emulation is really versatile. It lets you have both of those IBM symbol sets plus Epson’s own standard symbol set. This Epson symbol set is unusual: it contains both upright and italic characters in the same set.
MANAGING FONTS You can scc which fonts are cuncntly selected on your Star LaserPrinter 8 by printing a status sheet in offline mode, as mentioned at the beginning of this chapter.
systems, such as Xerox’s Ventura Publisher, are document-oriented. That makes them better suited to technical manuals and long proposals or reports that go through many drafts.
I Optional fonts Many optional fonts available for your Star LaserPrinter 8 complement its internal fonts. These can give you more variety in symbol sets, spacing, font height, style and stroke weight. To your Courier or Tms Romn fonts, for example, you might add italics and bold, legal or math symbol sets, and sizes ranging from 7 to 14 points.
How to download fonts To download fonts from computer disk you’ll need mom than a small 64K microcomputer. We recommend at least a 512K computer with a couple of disk drives (a hard disk is better). Many commercial font-management programs are now on the market, including Insight Development’s L.
I You then do the same for the italics and boldface files, for example typing for the italics font: DOWNLOAD CN1OOIPN.R8P The prompts will be the same, but you have to remcmberto usc different font ID numbers for the upright, italic and boldface fonts.
Hints: Managing memory . . . . ● ✎ Piinting fancy stuff can be quite cumbersome for your printer. You trade off fanciness against speed: if you opt for fewer flourishes, you give your printer breathing room in memory. And that rewards you with faster output.
I To see how much memory is available for extra fonts, put the printer offline and press the TEST button to print a status sheet. Your printer will beep and show a front-panel message if you try to overload its memory by downloading too many fonts. It then will continue printing with the closest available font to that requested.
The Hewlett-Packard LaserJet series II is an earlier kind of laser printer than your Star LaserPrinter 8. You should have no trouble running most popular software packages in HP LaserJet II mode, as those programs likely can send LaserJet 11 commands.
I Two important details make LaserJet II commands different from the other printer emulations. First, all Escape sequences end with a capital letter. If you don’t make the last character uppercase, your printer won’t know when the Escape sequence ends and will treat following characters as part of the same command.
Here’s a way you can save yourself a few keystrokes: type in those commands that have the same command-category prefix as just one long Escape scquencc. To combine commands this way, type the <ESC> and command-category prefix just once, and capitalize only the last command character.
Set number of copies You can print up to 99 copies of each of the pages you send to the printer. You may send this command anywhere within the text on a page; it will stay in effect for that and all s.
When you want to set all your laser printer’s parameters back to their initial default values (some people call this “initializing” the printer), send this command: <ESC> E The printer will finish printing any pages left in its memory before resetting the parametem.
I You can now send your letter from your word processing program to the printer and feed in those pages. When you’re done, you may want to send the <ESC> E command one more time. PAGE ORIENTATION You might reasonably think of page orientation as a page formatting issue.
1 ORIENTATION PAPER SIZE @ 6 LINESilNCH n @ 8 LINES/tNCH Portrait Portrait Portrait Portrait Landscape Landscape Landscape Landscape Executive Letter A4 Legat Executive Letter A4 Legat 60 66 70 84 43 51 49 * 80 88 93 112 58 68 66 58 * Printing landscapes on legal paper is trickier.
You cannot set the left margin further over than the right margin. Use the following command to set the left margin, setting n to be the column number where you want the left margin to start: <ESC&.
<ESC> &t’tz F The Page Length, Top Margin and Text Length commands therefore work together to set the bottom margin: bottom margin = page length - (top margin+ text length). The bottom margin is called the “perforation region” with printem that use continuous forms.
Page Side Selection (DX type only) The following command allows you to select on what side of a page the following data will be printed-when the printer is in duplex mode: <ESC> & a n G where n is an ASCII value from “O” to “3”.
Here are the commands that will produce this format for us: <ESC> &tl 12P <ESC> &a IOt’70M <ESC> &t’8e IOOf OL (We’ll send our page here.) <ESC> 9 MOVING THE PRINT POSITION Many ways to move The LaserPrinter 8 provides excellent control over the print position— where you poise your laser “pen”.
For n you enter the number of lines per inch you want— any of: 1,2,3,4, 6,8, 12, 16,24 or48. If you enter a number other than these the printer will ignore the command.
changing the actual meaning of a “line”. When you increase the line depth you effectively decrease the number of lines per inch, and increase the page length.
To move the print position horizontally a certain numbcrof decipoints, send the command: <ESC> &a n H in which for n you enter the number of decipoints you wish to move the print position (preceded by a + or– sign if you want to move away from the current position).
The important difference about moving vertically up or down is what the printer does when the print position hits the page top or bottom. If you try to move above the top margin, the print position stays right at the margin. And if you move the print position down off the page, the page is ejected and printing continues on the next page.
I And to move 20 dots up you send: <ESC> *p –20Y Combining move commands One thing about moving the print position with the above commands is that they let you think of your page in terms of Cartesian coordinates. All we mean is that you can combine horizontal and vertical movements that use the same units.
Line feeds me Line Feed command advances the print position one line down the page. The meaning of a line is set by the Line Depth command. To send a line feed just send this control code: <LF> The Half Line Feed command is the one you want for subscripts.
For n enter one of the numbers from this table: n AUTOMATIC COMMAND O (zero) cCR>, cLF> and <FF> work according to their basic definitions, 1 (one) <CR> will also generate a cLF> .
Also, note that Autowrap doesn’t move the whole word down to the next line— that’s a job for a word processor, not your laser printer. Pushing and popping the print position This provides a wonderful way to keep track of the print position. it works by letting you keep a list of up to 20 print positions.
I CONTROLLING FONTS Font selection The LaserJet II emulation lets you define and select fonts three ways: as primary and secondary fonts, or by font identification number, or by description. We’ll look at the first two ways now, and explain selecting a font by its attributes a little further on.
After your primary font is selected, you can choose it for printing by sending this Shift In control code: <S1> All tic text you send after that command will print in the primary font.
I secondary fonts? You want to select a downloaded font ID as your secondary font. This is the command to send: <ESC> ) n X Font attributes The third way to select a font is to simply describe what font attributes you want. (Remember, selecting a font does not modify a font.
default settings. When you want to select the opposite orientation, send this command: <ESC> &tn O in which for n you put O to get portrait orientation, or 1 to get landscape orientation. (Notice: the /character after the &is a lowercase L.
01 OK ON 00 OQ 0s Ou OY ID IE IF IG 10 IQ 1s IU 2K 2Q 2s 2U 3Q 3s 4s 5s , 6S 8M ‘8Q 8U 8Y 9Q 10U 1lQ 1 IU 12U 15U 1S0 15: Italian JIS ASCII ECMA~94 Latin 1 OCR-A Math-8A symbols 1S0 11: Swedish US-A.
I Selecting the current or default symbol set Your printer can use either the primary or the secondary font as its current font. And that current font has its current symbol set.
I Then in the report you decide to use a proprietary product name, so want to nip out to grab the@ symbol on a legal cartridge font you’ve already loaded, then return to your German set. When your report’s all done, you want to return the printer to its Roman-8 default.
To define spacing for your secondary font, use the same numbers and just flip lhe parenthesis: <ESC> )S ~ P Pitch Pitch defines how many characters per inch you want for a monospaced- pitch font. Your Star LascrPrinter 8‘s internal monospaccd-pitch fonts have settings of 10, 12 or 16.
I To select font height for the secondary font, send this command: <ESC> )S /z V Style Style defines whether your text is printed in italics or upright, the way these words are.
So you can use the command <ESC> &a n H to back up, you just need to know the width in decipoints of what you want to overprint. In a mono- spaced-pitch font like Courier that’s easy: just keep track of how many characters you print. In a proportional font you’d keeptrackof the decipoints by using a character-width table.
Example: Font attributes Let’s put the last half dozen font altnbutcs together in an example. Say we want to select a nice font— a small Line Printer- for the footnotes in a report we’ve finished. Let’s make it our secondary font, since the body of our report is done in the primary font.
feature this way, the printer will underline all subsequent printable charac- ters, including spaces. Send this command to turn on the underlining mode: <ESC> &d n D in which for n you put O (zero) to get fixed underline, or 3 to get floating underline.
I And to turn off Display Functions, send this command at the end of the displayed print data: <ESC> Z That Escape Z sequence itself prints as a blank followed by a Z. Font control The Font Control command has two main functions: defining a font’s status, and deleting fonts.
Here’s how to assign ID numbers to an internal or cartridge font. You first select the font, then send the Font ID command to give it an ID number, and finally copy the font into memory with Font Control function 6. If you want that copy to stay in RAM when you reset the printer, you conclude by sending Font Control function 5.
Example: Assigning font numbers Now let’s do a program in BASIC. First we’ll assign font numbers to the Courier and Presige resident fonts and to a cartridge font, IBM PC Courier.
USIN G YOUR OWN FONTS Font design is tedious A warning: font design is an art. Don’t expect to turn out professional- looking fonts in a few hours. Sometimes, though, you have to build your own typeface, even if you don’t work with a company in the font-selling business.
I 1) Assigning a font ID to your font To assign an ID to your font, you send this command (described above under “Assigning font ID numbem”) with an ID number for n between O and 32767: <ESC> *C n D Before sending that command though, check whether the ID number is already allocated to another font.
BYTE o-1 2 3 4-5 6-7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14-15 16-17 18-19 20-22 23 24 25 MEANING header length blank font size blank baseline position for characters blank cell width blank cell height orientation spacin.
I 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 three 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.
GRAPHICS The Star LaserPrinter 8 offers two kinds of graphics. It prin~s raster graphics (sometimes called “bit-mapped graphics”), which specify each dot in a graphics pattern. And it prints pattern graphics, which prints Iincs and pattcmcd blocks.
I Sending and ending raster graphics Graphics printing is independent of text margin boundaries, including the perforation skip region. It is bnly limited by the printable area and the page length.
Defining rule or pattern dimensions Defining the dimensions of the area you want to fill just means indicating the horizontal and vertical size of the pattern, or the rule’s length and thickness. You can indicate dimensions in either dots or decipoints (tenths of a point).
Alternatively, to show the vertical dimension in decipoints, you send this command: <ESC> *C n V in which n is the number of decipoints in the rule’s thickness or the pattcm’s vertical length.
36-55 0/0 56-80 0/0 81 -99 0/0 100 %0 .m m If you want a linear pattern, for n you enter here a pattern number between 1 and 6 inclusive, identifying one of the linear patterns below.
You always send the following Print Pattern command after a Specify Pattern command. This Print Pattern command identities whether the area you have defined is to be filled with a rule, dotted gray-scale pattern, or linear pattern: <ESC> *C n P For n enter a value from the following table.
define yourself, that does tic work of a whole long scnes of pnntcr commands. Any LaserJet 11 emulation command can go into a macro. Putting macros together to automatically repeat sequences of tasks is like using a real programming Ianguagc.
1 (one) Stop defining macro. 2’ Execute macro. This option makes the printer run the last specified macro, changing printer parametcm according to what its commands say. (The printer paramctem are those you might also set from the front panel.) When the macro is done, the print position will be just where it was before you ran the macro.
Example: Macros Tk following program loads and runs a macro. The macro moves an inch and a half right and down three inches from the top left comer of the page, where it prints a 25 percent gray-scale bar.
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The small-carriage EX-800 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.
I But some commands include two n variables, which are shown as n] and n2. These normally represent bytes to be added together to produce onc sum, in which n] represents single units and n2 represents 256-unit groups. Finally, a few commands can have many n variables (such as tab stops), which are listed the same way.
● left-to-right (unidirectional) printing control <ESC> U c print quiet (half speed) <ESC> S ● print immediate (“incremental” or “typewriter” mode) cESC> i CONTROLLING THE P.
FORMATTING PAGES Page length You can define page length in either inches or lines-a matter of personal prefcmmce. When you first start EX-800 emulation your printerscts the page length to 11 inches and 66 lines. The dctinition 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 8 lines of top margin (implied by your top-of-page setting) and 8 lines of bottom margin.
I Side margins To set the left margin to a particular column you send this command: in which n is the column number for the left margin. (Note that the character /is a lowercase L.) Column 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) 7/’72 inch <ESC> 1 (one) 1/6 inch <ESC> 2 (the default) increments of 1/216 inch <ESC> 3 n (in which n is the.
Carriage return The printer moves the print po:ition back to the left margin when you send a carriage rctum control code. The print position will not move down to the next line (unless on the front pa.
Left-to-right printing The EX-800 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 compares with laser printing.
I To complete the command, forn2 youenterthenumberof full groups of256 increments you want to move. And for n] you enter the number of increments left over. Confused? Here’s an example. This command: <ESC> $141 moves 14+ (256 x 1)=270 increments from the left margin.
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I Typeface T S t Lase r 8 u C o f a i d e E f Y u t S e Em u s u c o t s i a emu l t s e a ca r o do w f b y w b a t b r t h f o b a i n E X m o T h b e E e al w st a w i Co u a i d e f Underline T un.
A exa m Prop o b o ex t l o g a a t T g i y a u t h va l f t h t h ( + 8 + 3 = 4 a s t c < E ! 4 Subscripts and superscripts Sub s m o p r cha r a h o t n o h e i t l p a o t l i sp a Sup e m p r c.
User-defined characters Y c cr e a p r y o c u c h w E e t i b y pr o w o w t T S La s 8 p m conv e a c t s p s y s t t p a t Las e I emu l B i y h a u s a chara c p r d e f E p e r y c o n e t g a s .
Printing dots EX - emu l p r gr a a l i e p i h Y j sp e w h o t e i d o t p r f e d o c o T h so u e a b i c b a l o w o I m s p a e b bi n nu m 6 t 2 t i p i n r a c t p T m a 2 0 calc u f e v l i A.
I S t p r j u 1 co l o gr a y w s t c < E K 1 5 T h man s t 1 + ( x 2 = 1 c o B t p r 2 co l o gr a a t s d e y w s t com m < E K 4 1 T h o tra n t 4 + ( x 2 = 2 c o Rem e t p exactly t r i n u .
M O # O M O # 1 M O # 2 M O # 3 M O # 4 M O # 5 M O # 6 M O # 7 Yo u al r s e a ex a o t f i c o < K nl n2. T n e t h com m w i L Y a Z fo l t < c w ex a t s a w a Ne i < E Y n < E Z a re .
I t h ch a t de n f < E K i n T ch a a com m n o d e y s t c o c E ? c m F c y sub s wh i c o id e y w t c ( L Y o Z A f o y e n them o n d y w t h co m t h a f t t a a b Nine-pin graphics T StarLa.
I T p r nin e gra p s e t c o b e y g r d c E A d nl n2 T var i d i a n u in d d e I d is a e n t de n w i b 6 d o p i n b i d is a o n u t d w b 1 d o p i n T n i t h co m a w o t g r c o m t nu m o .
T I Pro p l i t E p E X i a d o p T Prop r a Pro p X h p r p o b e t c w I B pred i qu a T I Pro p i q u s i t t E E a t s m o o t s a co m I t c h t h w lt c co m t b o b de s i d e o t P r c t di f .
Y m a l pr c u Prop r i y n t p t s char a f r I B s y s I f a th o y c u t I s y s w a o t o emul a Unsuppotied commands T S t Lase r 8 ig n t fo l c o b e t a mean i o a l a pr i ● se l d r o near.
FORMATTING PAGES Identical formatting commands T Pro p co m i t fo l l a i d t t o t EX - I y o n s h t w s “ F P i ch a 5 Set Page Length in Lines < C n Set Page Length in Inches < C < n S.
Set Vertical Tabs c E B nZn2...n64<NUL> Tab Vertically <v’r> Tab Horizontally <HI-> Define line spacing Y c s t l i sp a i in c o 1 i u t f o De f L i Sp a co m Ho w t v y d i o st.
Turning automatic line feed on or off Y c s t ca r r e t m t p p o j t t l ma r o t t l e m a a a d a l U t c < E 5 n I y m a n a o n u (m a 2 t p r w d a l f a f e a ca r re t I y m n e ( m 2 t p .
I CONTROLLING FONTS Selecting fonts T S t Lase r 8 u s C o f a i d e P r f I swi t t t L i Pr i f o f co n p r a t P r f 1 pi t Y c se l t h th r t f r p a p r m Orientation Por t a lan d ori e a av a.
Printing international characters Co n c o a n pr i B C h S 2 s a v char a a cu r s y i A p o n o o b co n co d A b o s y s s t p l c s ( c di a a s p i c o c po s Y h t g o o y w i I Pmp r m t p r t .
I Pitch Prop r pi t in c 5 6 1 1 a 1 c h p i a ava i f r t f r pa n p r m T e i t d sp a i Pro p m o T ch a t a p i o 1 ch a p i ( e y c s t com m < E : T tu r com p o 12 - pr i a s e 1 0 ( a s e t.
Overscoring A ove r i a l i d r a b t ch a i a w S p u ove m t in d t t w t c o b i l t w o e a t r e I y w a a ove r u t c o < E – n T cha r a f t E s c i t u n c h I f n y e n 1 ( o t h y s e a.
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T X e D i 6 p r w o b s t a h a t s or’’ p o a re v dai~wheel. E s h o o d char a T Di a i o o t m p o da i p r s m w proc e pr o in c p r d r f i I y u t X D 6 cmu l m o i w m o b t p w s o t w s.
I T h m e y c s e t h c o t c h t p l t s 4 li n < E < F 4 A imp o po i w i D i co m a n u y p a t c E c o i a A S c o n t pr i n u a i L 1 com m I Di a m o a n u y p a a < c m e y s e wh a ch a o c t position i t A ta b Unsupported commands Y o Laser P 8 be c i i a l a p r d n s t fol l Di a 6 co m .
Reset commands Di a emu l pr o t co m t r t p t i d in i par a O co m r e t p r a s a i i r T o t co m r e t p r o a a p r c h a b e a c u p T co m t imm e r e t p r a w o a t f o a ma c a a un p p a .
How to set the depth of a line The L i D e co m (so m c a t “ v m i de f w h a “l i m e i l f a p l e c o L d e i al w s o mu l o l / o a i T S L a 8 def a 8/ 4 o a i n w o o t s l p i T ch a t I .
< E T Simi l t de f b o m a i a t v b o t p W t p r po s m o p t b o m a t S L a 8 pr i t p a a m o i p r p o t t t m a T s a n b o ma r u l f o v e t c t p t p r po s o t l y w a T s t c o < E .
How to justify text Justified t e i an o Las e 8 f e i D m F jus t t e ex t t t m a o b t r a l s o t p a Y t u o aut o jus t w t f o c w h m u b s e b e t f i l y w t j u < E M Y sh o m a s u t h .
1 Backspace commands W h y s e t S t Las e 8 a b a c h i m t p r po s l e o s p < B B i yo u g i t p r a b a p r c o t c m o t p r po s right o s p Som e e l t k e i m a b t b a c h i l y p r dir e.
Line feed commands L i f e com m m o t p r p o e i d o u t p b ei t a f u o a h a l i T L De f c o d w a “l i m e f t fol l f co m U n y c i o t f r pa n t de f ve r s p i s l p i Y u t h L i F e co.
Dais y pr i p r bidi r t o p p r s T i n nec e o a l a pr i b f c o s o c o y o S t Lase r 8 in c t n t c o W h t p r po s i m o r i t l a b a c m t p r po s t t r i i n o t l H o c r a t m o a n af f.
I T Hori z T M o co m a d t p p o t t n hori z t pos i T m t w s t c o < H T t a o a hor i t s t f i m t p p o t t c cont a t h t s t T h i s t C l H o T S c m a < E 8 Vertical tabs Ver t t a w .
Vertical line move T Ve r L i M o c o l y m e u o d T co m s e t p r po s t a p a l n ( prog r c a i a “a b v e t t t i d i a t set t Y j u p i n t co m t pa r l n t w y w t g ( l 1 i a t t e o t p .
I S ( l y St a emu l o t Di a Ex t C h di v a sy m s e cha r i a p r s t 1 c h i sta n AS C a a sup p s t m c o i o sp e gra p sy m Y h t i n a o p E f c be f y c s h t t s e s T i m f a t suppl e s i.
S When you combine proportional spacing with automatic justification you can get text that looks like that in professionally typeset books. A note, though: the proportional spacing command can not change a monospaced-pitch font into a proportionally spaced one.
Pitch The monospaccd pitches available with intcmal fonts include 10, 12 and 16.66 characters per inch. However, with the front panel’s program menu you can select more the compact 6.5 and 8.1 pitches appropriate for a small font like Line Printer. Font height The normal font sizes in Diablo mode are 8.
You can turn off the underlining with either of these commands: <ESC> R <ESC> X Suppress printing By sending the command to suppress printing you can make the LaserPrinter 8 print spaces inplaceof any printable characters youlaterscnd— in effect, just move the print position.
I Think of the normal Cartesian coordinate system in geometry, with its horizontal x-axis and vertical y-axis. In this system a poinl 30 units right of the y-axis and 12 units above the x-axis is shown as (30,12). And a point 30 units right of the y-axis but 12 units below the x-axis is shown as (30, –12).
HYPLOT STEP COMMAND 1) Enter HyPlot mode <ESC> 3 2) Select plotting style <ESC> G (absolute) or <ESC> V (rela- tive) 3 Ch o plotting symbol cESC>.
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This final chapter in your Star LaserPrinter 8 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. You’ll find Ihcm or- ganized by function in chapters 4 through 7.
COMMAND SUMMARY HP LaserJet II Emulation Printer Commands Command Function <BS> Backspace <HT> Horizontrd tab <LF> Line feed <FF> Form feed <CR> Carriage return <so>.
Command <ESC> ( n @ <ESC> ( n X <ESC> (S n B <ESC> (S n H <ESC> (S rI P <ESC> (S n S <ESC> (S n T <ESC> (S n V <ESC> (S n W <ESC> ) n <ES.
I Command Function Page cESC> [ C n Select paper feeder 33 <ESC> [ D n Seldct simplex/duplex mode (DX type only)34 cESC> [ E n Change emulation mode 30 <ESC> [ O n Select orientation.
Command Function Page <ESC> 6 Expand printable code area 119 <ESC> 7 Cancel expansion of printable code area 119 <ESC> < One-line unidirectional printing 107 <ESC> = Set MSB.
Command Function Page cESC> b c nl n2.. .<NUL>Set vertical tab stops in charnel 110 cESC> j n Perform one n/216-inch reverse line feed 106 <ESC> /n Set left margin 104 <ESC> p .
Command <ESC> G <ESC> H <ESC> J n <ESC> K nl n2 <ESC> L rd n2 <ESC> N n <ESC> O <ESC> Q <ETX> <ESC> R <ESC> S n <ESC> T <ESC&.
I Command <ESC> <CR> P <ESC> <DC1 > n <ESC> <SUB> I <ESC> <EM> n <ESC> <RS> n <ESC> <US> n <ESC> ! <ESC> & <ESC> , x y <ESC> – <ESC> . <ESC> O <ESC> 1 <ESC> 2 <ESC> 3 <ESC> 4.
Command <ESC> V <ESC> W <ESC> X <ESC> Y <ESC> Z <ESC> [ C n <ESC> [ D n <ESC> [ E n <ESC> [ O n <ESC> [ S n Function Page Select relative Hy.
I SYMBOL SETS This section gives tables of the symbol sets for the Star LaserPnntcr 8. 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.
I Number Symbol Name OA Math-7 t 1 I 1 L 1 < I i I I 1 I l J 1 l I 6 I I 1 , . . -- t I 7 I 1 1 1 1 . . , -. i k 8 9 A I B I 1 1 . . . 1 - , . 1 1 1 , .
I Number Symbol Name O Line Draw 164.
I I Number Symbol Name O 60: Norwegian I — I I 21 1 181 I 341 50[ I I I 31 I 191 “ I 351 I 511 I 1 I 61 I 221 1 381 I 541 a e u fv I I 1 , , . . , , - , - .
I Number Symbol Name O Roman Extension 166.
I Number Symbol Name OF 1S0 25: French.
I Number Symbol Name OG HP German 1.
I Number Symbol Name 01 1S0 15: Italian I 5 I 1 1 . , , - , - + I 6 I 1 I “ I . . , t I 7 I 1 1 1 1 . . 1 , } ~ ! ‘ -“! ‘ --: ‘ “-} I I I 1 I J I I F I 1 1 .
I Number Symbol Name OK JIS ASCII o 1 234 5 6 7 0 <NUL> I 1 - ! : : I I — / I 11 I 171 I 331 I 491 651 - I 811 971 - I 1131 1 I 41 1 20] I 361 I 521 681 1 841 I 100 I 11161 1 — I 131 I 291 I.
I Number S y Name ON ECMA-94 Latin 1 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1.
I Number Symbol Name ON ECMA-94 Latin 1 (cont.) 172.
00 OCR-A I Number Symbol Name.
I Number Symbol Name O Math-8A o 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 ..,,,,. I 01 I 161 I 321 I 481 I 641 I 801 I 961 1112 ,nr=l. 3= 65 81 BZ 66 82 2= rT 67 8: AT 68 sl 4 E@ 69 85 70 86 HW 71 87 72 8E * I ‘v 73 89 74 90 .
0 ISO 11: Swedish I Number Symbol Name 1.
I Number Symbol Name 176.
I Number Symbol Name OY Bar Code 3 of 9.
I Number Symbol Name I 6 Norwegian 1 I I I I Ill [ 331 I 2 I . J ! 1- A~ Q: a m “ ‘R ‘m bi--GF plT>J<Et4>J A B F! -1 > — I I 141 m-m m F / — A 47 1.
I Number Symbol Name IE UK 1.
I Number Symbol Name I ISO 69: French 1 8.
I — Number Symbol Name IG 1S0 21: German I I I El I 241 ‘ I 4 1.
I Number Symbol Name 10 OCR-B I A <S1> F <us> 0 D pi 182.
I Number Symbol Name 1 OCR-B (cont.) 1.
ID Number Symbol Name IQ Math-8B 1 I I 21 I 181 341 I sol I 6( I i I —. I I 141 I 301 I 461 I 62 r F’ I I I 151 I 311 I 471 I 631 I 7 a + 109 125 * 110 126 111 127 1.
I Number Symbol Name 1.
I Number Symbol Name Legal IU o 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B c D E F.
I Number Symbol Name 2 Ill I ! I 1 I 1 I 5 1 1.
2Q Pi Font–A I Number Symbol Name 1.
I Number Symbol Name 2s 1S0 17: Spanish 415 67 I 4 * M br 98 114 c s 99 115 4 a e u 101 117 fv 102 1lB a i Y 105 121 j z ~zz 106 k“ 107 123 lii 108 124 M 1.
I Number Symbol Name 2U 1S0 IRV.
ID Number Symbol Name 3Q OCR-B Extension 1.
ID Number Symbol Name 3s 1S0 10: Swedish 23456 7 192.
ID Number Symbol Name 4s 1S0 16: Portuguese 8 9 A 193.
ID Number Symbol Name 5s 1S0 84: Portuguese 194.
ID Number Symbol Name 6S ISO 85: Spanish c) 1 2 3 4567 <S1> <us> F o # 195.
ID Number SymbolName 8M Math-8.
ID Number SymbolName 8M Math-8 (cont.) 197.
ID Number SymbolName 8Q IBM-PC Set o 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B c D E F o 12345 67 I 1 198.
ID Number SymbolName 8Q IBM-PCSet (cont.) — 199.
ID Number SymbolName 8U Roman-8 o 1234567 ..,,,,. E 7 8 9 A B c 200.
ID Number SymbolName 8U Roman-8 (cont.) o 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B c D E F 201.
ID Number SymbolName 8Y Bar Code EAN/UPC m ml ml [ 73] I 891 I105I 1121 I — I Ill I 271 I 43! I 591 I 751 I 911 I107I I c [<FF’L.I “-”11 d -1 -l -l -1 3 202.
ID Number SymbolName 9Q IBM-PCExtension 203.
ID 204.
ID Number Symbol Name 10U IBM-PC(US) E- 0 1 21314151617 I ‘t 9 A 1- C D k E F 205.
I ID Number SymbolName 10U IBM-PC(US) (cont.) o 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 A B c D E F 8 9 A T z 02 ■ 220 236 I @ 237 221 I E 23, 222 ■ fl 223 23S 1 F -+ * 241 4 J 245 4 ● 249 -d 250 4 .
ID Number SymbolName 1lQ ECMA-947-bit 207.
ID Number SymbolName 1lU IBM-PC (Denmark/Norway) 208.
ID Number SymbolName 1lU IBM-PC (Denmark/Norway) (cont.) 209.
ID Number Symbol Name 12U PC-850 I o 123 d--b= # 4 ! 1 17 33 49 t II 2 18 34 SC !! #3 19 35 51 7$4 20 36 52 e a’ 7 23 39 55 t 24 ( a 56 40 d-d= =la= < 28 ‘ 44 60 w = 29 45 61 45 67 z a 97 q 113.
ID Number SymbolName 211.
I ID Number SymbolName 15U Pi Font t 2 H-a- I I I 21 I 18[ I 341 I 501 m “m ‘b I 3 I I 5 t -- -. , 1 .“ 1 , “. 1 1 “d, , .“ 1 I I I 1 I 6 I 7 I I< B’’L-.I L 9 ‘<HT> <EM> I 1 I 101 I 261 I 421 I 581 I 741 [q “ m “ m I B l<vT’LJ<Escd “ --1.
EC ASCII, 6-11 ASCII symbol set, 41,111 attributes. See font attributes Auto Carriage Return command Diablo 630 mode, 141 auto line feed Proprinter mode, 129 Auto Line F&d parameter, 22,141 auto p.
compressed print EX-800 mode, 114-115 Proprinter mode, 131 condensed print, 36 EX-800 mode, 114-115 Proprinter mode, 131 configuration, 15 configuration settings, 16 continuous-form paper, 21 control .
[IL factory settings, 15 Feed Select command, 33 Diablo 630 mode, 136 HP LaserJet 11 mode, 54 font attributes, 28,35-37,41 default, 43 See also font orientation; pitch; point size; spacing; stroke wei.
horizontal motion commands EX-800 mode, 107-109 horizontal motion index. See HMI horizontal print position, 61,63-64 horizontal tab commands EX-800 mode, 108-109 Proprinter mode, 128,129 HP LaserJet I.
m networks, 50 NEXT button, 15 nine-pin graphics, 123-124 number of copies command HP LaserJet II mode, 54 Number of Copies setting, 20 m offset commands EX-800 mode, IZ6 ON LINE button, 13 optioml fonts, 46 orientation.
print position commands, 22,27 Diablo 630 mode, 140-145 EX-800 mode, 105-110 HP LaserJet II mode, 61-69 Proprinter mode, 127-129 print spoolers, 49 PROGRAM button, 15 pro~rtional spacing, 28,38,39 Dia.
spacing, 28,37, 72 Diablo 630 mode, 147 EX-800 mode, 113 HP LaserJet II mode, 76 See also line spacing commands; monospacing; proportional spacing Spacing Offset command, 147 Diablo 630 mode, 140 Spec.
I L!Ll Veflical Line Move command Diablo 630 mode, 145 vertical motion index. See VMI vertical print position, 61-63 vertical tab commands Diablo 630 mode, 144 EX-800 mode, 209 VMI, 26 HP LaserJet II mode, 62 ml Warning Alarm, 20 WYSIWYG, 45 12u Xerox Diablo 630emulation mode.
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