Printout Using The Standard Character Set; Printout Of Character Segments To Form Large Characters - Centronics 306SC Programmer's Manual

PRINTOUT USING THE STANDARD CHARACTER SET
The following four examples illustrate how to instruct the printer to print standard 0.1-inch
characters in condensed (16.5 CPI), normal (10 CPI), elongated or condensed/elongated character
density.
NOTE
The selected character density is effectively reduced
by half when printing elongated characters.
EXAMPLE 1 (NORMAL)
DATA: ESC 0 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ CR LF
PRINTER RESPONSE:
AE:CDEFt3H I .JKLMNOPG!RSTUVWX YZ
EXAMPLE 2 (CONDENSED)
DATA: ESC 0 DC2 ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPORSTUVWXYZ CR LF
PRINTER RESPONSE: ABCDEFGHI.,1KLMNOPQRSTtMJXYZ
NOTE
Control code DC2 (022) can appear anywhere
before CR or the 132nd printable character of
any given line.
EXAMPLE 3 (ELONGATED)
DATA: ESC 0 SO ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ CR
LF
PRINTER RESPONSE:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXVZ
NOTE
Control code SO (016) can appear anywhere
before CR and the 132nd printable character
of any given line.
EXAMPLE 4 {CONDENSED/ELONGATED)
DATA: ESC 0 DS2 SO ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ LF CR
PRINTER RESPONSE: ABCDEFGHI._IKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
PRINTOUT OF CHARACTER SEGMENTS TO FORM LARGE CHARACTERS
Segmented character formation requires more than one pass of the print head. On each pass,
0.1-inch geometric character segments are printed according to the line of data. The number of
passes depends on the height of the character (e.g., 0.2-inch high character needs two passes to form
the character, 0.7-inch character needs seven passes).
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