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Hexadecimaldump
This feature is useful for programmed who are debuggingprinting pro-
grams and want to see the actual codes the printer is receiving.(Some
computerschangethe codesthe programmerintended.)
Inthismode,alldatareceivedwillbeprintedin ahexadecimal d umpformat,
ratherthan the controlcodesbeing actedon as commandcodes.
This modeis accessedwith the followingprocedu~:
1.
2.
3.
While holding both the PAPERFEEDand PITCH buttons down, turn
power ON. A beep tone will be heard.
Start printing.In place of the usual printoutyou will get a formatted
dumpshowingexactlywhatdatatheprinterreceives.Eachlinepresents
sixteen charactem their hexadecimalcodes to the left and printable
charactersprintedon the right.
At the end of the hexadecimaldump, set the printer off-line with the
ONLINE button.This is necessaryto printthe last line.
The followingBASICprogramis a simpletest you can run in hexadecimal
mode:
10
20
30
40
50
FOR 1=0 TO 255
LPRINT
CHR$( 1 ) ;
NEXT I
LPRINT
END
If your system passes the codes directly to the printer withoutchanging
them, you will get a printoutlike Figure2-4.
m [:)1 (:]2 03
04
05
06
07
0!3 09
[:IA Oi3 OC CID OE OF
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
1 [] 11
12
1.3 14
15
16
17
113 19
1A
113 IC
ID
IE
IF
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
'20 ~~
~~
p~
24
25
26
27
~S
29
ZQ ~B 2C
2D
2E
2F
! "#$"/.&'
( ) *+, -. /
31> 31
32
33
34
35
3.5 37
38
39
30
7B
3C .3D 3E
3F
(:11234 !36789 : ; <:=:$?
40
41
42
4s
44
45
46
47
48
49
4A
4B
4C
4D
4E
4F
@9BCDEFGHI JKLMNO
50
51
52
5.3 54
55
36
57
5S
59
3A
5i3 5C !5D 5E
5F
PQRSTUVWXYZ [ \ lo-
60
01
62
63
64
.55 66
67
68
69
6A
6!3 6C
6D
6E
6F
'abc de+ghi
j k 1 mno
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
7?
76
7B
7C
7D
7E
7F
pqt. stuvwxyz
{ : 3 -'.
80
.91 S2
S3
84
S5
86
87
8S
89
8.4 8B
8C
SD SE SF
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
90
9 I
72
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
9A 9S
9C
9D
9E
9F
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
M)
01
42
As
A4
65
A.5 Q7
AS 69
AA (WI AC 6D
9E
6F
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
EI[:I B 1 E12 B3
E14 B5 Et6 E17
E18 !39 13A !3EI BC EID BE RF
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CCI Cl
C2
C.3 C4
C5
C6
C.7
C@ C9
CO CB CC CD CE CF
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
D(I DI
D2
D3 D4
D5
D6 D7
DE! D9
DA DEI DC DD DE DF
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
E() E 1 E2
E3
E4
E'5 E6
E?
ES E9
EA EH EC ED EE EF
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
F[l
F 1 F2
F3
F4
F5
F6
F7
FB F9
FA FEI FC FD FE FF
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
(:]D (:)(?
. .
Figure 2-4.
Sample hexadecimal dump
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