Dos Support; Control Panel Settings; Character Tables - Epson Stylus Color 850 Manual

DOS Support

If driver support for the EPSON Stylus COLOR 850 is not
available from your software manufacturer, you can use one of
the other EPSON ESC/P 2 printer drivers. These drivers
don't provide all the EPSON Stylus COLOR 850 features,
such as 720 or 1440 dpi printing. Choose the first printer
available from the following two lists:
Black printing only
• LQ-870/1170
• LQ-570(+)/1070(+)
• SQ-870/1070
• LQ-850
• LQ-500
Color and black printing
• EPSON Stylus PRO
• EPSON Stylus COLOR 500
• EPSON Stylus COLOR II
• LQ-860
• LQ-2550

Control Panel Settings

You can change the following default settings from the printer's
control panel:
Setting Options
Print direction Auto, Bi-D, Uni-D
Font Courier, Roman, Sans Serif, Prestige,
Script, Roman T, Sans Serif H, Draft
Pitch 10 cpi, 12 cpi, 15 cpi, 17.1 cpi, 20 cpi,
Proportional
I/F mode Auto, Parallel, Serial, Option
Auto I/F wait time 10 seconds, 30 seconds
Software ESC/P 2, IBM X24E
Auto CR (IBM mode Off, On
only)
AGM (IBM mode only) Off, On
Character table PC437, PC850, PC860, PC861, PC863,
PC865, Abicomp, BRASCII, Roman 8,
ISO Latin 1
International character Italic U.S.A., Italic France, Italic
set for italic table Germany, Italic U.K., Italic Denmark 1,
Italic Sweden, Italic Italy, Italic Spain 1
Auto line feed Off, On
Network I/F mode Off, On
Loading position 8.5 mm, 3 mm, Others
Economy Off, On
Parallel I/F transfer rate Fast, Normal
Changing control panel settings
Follow these steps to change the settings listed above:
1. Make sure the printer is turned off and has paper loaded.
2. Hold down the X
Ppower button. The printer prints a summary of
instructions for changing settings and choosing a language
for the instructions.
3. Press the color cleaning button to print a list of current
X
settings (indicated with arrows) and additional instructions.
4. After you make the changes you want, turn the printer off
to save the settings. The settings remain in effect until you
change them again.

Character Tables

All character tables except Italic are the same as the PC437
table for hex codes 00 through 7F. Additional characters are
available for hex codes 80 through FF. You can select the
following character tables through the control panel or
software commands:
• PC 437 (U.S./Standard Europe)
• PC850 (Multilingual)
• PC860 (Portuguese)
• PC861 (Icelandic)
• PC863 (Canadian-French)
• PC865 (Nordic)
• Abicomp
• BRASCII
• Roman 8
• ISO Latin 1
• Italic (no characters available for hex code 15)
International character sets
You can select a number of international character sets with
the control panel or the ESC R command. Other sets can only
be selected with the ESC R command. You can select
additional characters with the ESC ( ^ command.
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