Legacy Printer Features That Have Changed; User Defined Characters; Dynamic Code Page Definition - TransAct Epic 880 100-88002 Integration Manual

<n> Resulting
Characters
per Inch
1 1.00
2 2.00
3 3.01
4 4.00
5 4.95
6 5.94
7 6.93
8 8.00
9 9.04
10 9.90
11 10.95
12 12.23
13 13.00
14 13.87
15 14.86
This command disables any right-side spacing set by the [ESC] V command. It
enforces this spacing on the current font selection even if the character is too large for
the spacing. In addition, when font changes are made, the character pitch is
maintained.

Legacy Printer Features that Have Changed

Because this product employs outline and stroke font character generation, support
for several legacy features are changed from previous printers.

User Defined Characters

User defined character were previously supported by a series of commands that
would allow the user to define a new character bitmap. As characters are no longer
bitmaps, these commands are not supported. If custom user defined characters are
required, a custom font may be generated using any number of off-the-shelf font
generation tools. The custom font may be loaded into the printer and then printed as
any other character.

Dynamic Code Page Definition

Dynamic code page definition is still supported when in ASCII mode, however
Unicode is now used for the source character locations.
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Table 11 Character Pitch
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Unicode and Fonts
<n> Resulting
Characters
per Inch
16 16.00
17 17.33
18 17.33
19 18.91
20 20.8
21 20.8
22 23.11
23 23.11
24 23.11
25 23.11
26 26
27 26
28 26
29 29.71
30 29.71
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