Designing Enhanced Letter Quality Characters - Lexmark FORMS 249X Technical Reference

Designing Enhanced Letter Quality Characters

When designing monospaced Enhanced Letter Quality characters, you can use
horizontal consecutive dots.
To design a character, start with a 35 dot wide by 24 dot high grid. Although the
character matrix for an ELQ character is 36 dots wide, the last column must be
blank.
This example shows the draft design for the capital AE character (ASCII 146)
from the All Characters Chart.
Note: A blank column must be added after the last column of this character.
MSB
B
Y
T
E
1
LSB
MSB
B
Y
T
E
2
LSB
MSB
B
Y
T
E
3
LSB
Byte 1
Byte 2
Byte 3
Compression
Mask
1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 2 3 3 3 3 3 3
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 0 1 2 3 4 5
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
00 00 00 00 00 00 10 10 10 10 13 17 1C 18 10 10 10 10 10 1F 1F 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 1F 1F
00 00 00 00 00 03 07 1C 38 E8 C8 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 08 FF FF 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 7C 00 00 00 00 03 03
10 10 10 30 F0 D0 10 10 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 10 10 10 F0 F0 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 10 F0 F0
0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 0 0 1 1 1 0 1
6 0 0 1 6
Section 7: Downloading Characters and Fonts
B F 3 A
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