Star Micronics 10X User Manual page 103

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Fundamentals of Dot Matrix Printing
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Next, you should construct the character you wish to "draw"
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and label the rows and columns. Figure 6-6 shows one such
process, using two lines of seven rows each.
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ROUGH SKETCH
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firing code:
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firing code:
224 16 232 68
34 18 18 18 18
34 68 232 16 224
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Figure 6-6. One approach to creating your own graphics is first to sketch the
figure on graph paper, then code the dots for programming.
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