Select Character Font - Brother HL Series Technical Reference Manual

Select a character from the All Character Code table
Esc^<char-code>
• This command enables you to print a single character from the All Character Code table.
• A control code is not executed if the code is sent immediately following this instruction.
LPRINT CHR$(27); CHR$(94); CHR$(36); 'Printed a dollar sign

Select character font

EscIn (27)(73)n
• This command enables you to select a font and choose the print quality.
• If n is set to 0 the printer's standard font and draft quality are selected.
• If n is set to 2 the printer's standard font and letter quality are selected.
• If n is set to 4 the download font (the characters you sent to the printer using the Esc = command) and
draft quality are selected.
• If n is set to 6 the download font ( the characters you sent to the printer using the Esc = command)
and letter quality are selected.
LPRINT CHR$(27); CHR$(73); CHR$(2); 'Selected letter quality printer
font
Define characters
Esc=n1n220n3(n4n5<character definition data>...)
(27)(61)n1n220n3(...
• This command enables you to define and download characters for printing.
• Monospaced characters are designed on a grid eleven dots wide by twelve dots high. The width of
proportionally spaced characters is specified in n
Blank columns
1
2
3
Rows 1 - 8
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Replication area
11
12
• n
and n define the number of characters to be defined as follows: number of characters =
1 2
((n +(n *256)-2)/13.
1 2
• n
is the character code of the first character in the sequence to be defined. It is assumed that you are
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defining a sequence of characters whose code numbers increment by one for each character to be
defined.
• If bits 1 and 2 of n
are 0 and bit 8 is set to 1, the bytes that make up the character definition define
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the top eight rows of the grid, the most significant bit representing the top dot, and the least
significant bit representing the eighth dot down. Simply set a bit to 1 to print a dot in that position on
the grid, or to 0 to print white space.
• If bits 1 and 2 of n
are 00 and bit 8 is set to 0 the bytes that make up the character definition define
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rows 2 to 9 of the grid, the most significant bit representing the second dot, and the least significant
bit representing the ninth dot down. Simply set a bit to 1 to print a dot in that position on the grid, or
to 0 to print white space.
(27)(94)<Char-code>
<1Bh><49h>n
<1Bh><3Dh>n1n220n3(...
.
5
Character width
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<1Bh><5Eh><Char-code>
Rows 2 - 9
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