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CHAPTER
8
CREATING YOUR
OWN CHARACTERS
Subjects we'll cover in Chapter 8 include-
* Designing your own characters;
l
Printing your own characters;
l
Print mode and the download characters.
In the previous chapters of this manual you've learned how to
control the printer to give dozens of different typefaces.
By us-
ing various combinations
of pitches, character weights, and font
selections, you can create nearly any effect you want to in text.
And with international
character
sets and the special text and
big characters
described in Chapter 7, you can print almost any
character you think of.
But if "almost any character"
isn't good enough for you, then
it's a good idea you have this printer! With it you can actually
create
your own characters.
As you'll see in this chapter,
download characters
can be used
to print
a logo,
special
characters
for foreign languages,
scientific and professional
ap-
plications, or any other specific printing task.
DOT MATRIX
PRINTING
In order to create
download
characters,
you'll need some
understanding
of how dot matrix printers work. The process is
called dot-matrix
printing because each character
is composed
of small dots arranged
on a matrix, or grid. To see how that
character grid gets printed, you need to take a look at the print
head itself.
The printhead
in this printer contains 24 wires apparently
ar-
ranged in a vertical column. If you were to remove the print
head and look at the wires, you would see two staggered
col-
umns of twelve wires. However,
the timing is such that they
print as one continuous
column of 24 wires.
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