Creating User-Defined Characters For Emulation Mode - Intermec EasyCoder 3240 Developer's Manual

Creating User-Defined Characters for Emulation Mode

Intermec Printer Language (IPL) Developer's Guide
UDCs and UDFs are created in a six bits per byte format for printers in
Advanced mode, or in a one bit per byte format for printers in Emulation
mode.
You use a variety of IPL commands to create and define user-defined
characters and fonts. After you write the command strings that create
UDCs and UDFs, you download the command strings to the printer and
save them to the printer memory.
If your Intermec printer is running in Emulation mode (dot size of 10 or 15
mil), UDCs must be downloaded to the printer in one bit per byte format.
A one bit per byte bitmap image is an arrangement of ones and zeros that
looks similar to the following example.
Example of One Bit Per Byte Bitmap Image
Bitmap Pattern
000000010000000
000000111000000
000001011100000
000010011110000
000100011111000
001000011111100
010000011111110
100000011111111
010000010000010
001000010000100
000100010001000
000010010010000
000001010100000
000000111000000
000000010000000
If you look closely at the previous table, you can see that it is the outline of
a diamond with a line down the middle and the upper right corner blacked
in.
To create a user-defined character for Emulation mode
1 Draw your design on a piece of graph paper. This procedure uses the
next illustration as an example:
Chapter 3 — Working with Fonts and Graphics
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