User-Defined Characters; Sample Characters And Rom Equivalents - Epson FX-80 User Manual

Chapter 17
User-Defined Characters
To quote tennis guru Vic Braden:
"If you read between these covers, you are going to be famous by
Friday!"
Famous or not, if you've studied all the program examples of this
manual, you should be quite adept at printing both graphics and text
with the FX-80. In this chapter we're going to share the secrets of the
ultimate in printer control-defining your own characters.
With the FX-80, you can create any number of new characters, in-
cluding special symbols, graphics patterns to serve as building blocks
for larger designs, or even whole type fonts. Your characters can be
used for any purpose as long as they fit into the same dot matrix as the
ROM characters do-9 dots tall by 11 dots wide (6 columns plus 5
intermediate columns). Figure 17-1 shows a comparison of a few sam-
ple characters and their ROM equivalents.
ROM USER DEFINED
CHARACTERS CHARACTERS
L_ETTERS:
F,X
F,X
Syr1BOLS:
fl,-
NUMBERS: 8,0
8,1l)
.F.I
F'LAY
IT
AGAIN,
:F-X -;E30
I
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Figure 17·1. Sample characters and ROM equivalents.
Once you define your own characters, they can be used over and
over, just like the FX-80's ROM characters. In fact, user-defined char-
acters are printed just like any other ASCII characters.
But before you can take advantage of this fantastic feature, you
must first make a little preparation.
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