Brother HL-Series Technical Reference Manual page 254

Revision C 16/01/96
Select character font
EscIn
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This command enables you to select a font and choose the print quality.
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If n is set to 0 the printer's standard font and draft quality are selected.
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If n is set to 2 the printer's standard font and letter quality are selected.
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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.
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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(...
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This command enables you to define and download characters for printing.
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Monospaced characters are designed on a grid eleven dots wide by twelve dots high. The
width of proportionally spaced characters is specified in n
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n and n
1
((n +(n *256)-2)/13.
1 2
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n is the character code of the first character in the sequence to be defined. It is assumed that
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you are defining a sequence of characters whose code numbers increment by one for each
character to be defined.
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If bits 1 and 2 of n
define 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.
(27)(73)n
Blank columns Character width
1
2
3
Rows 1 - 8
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Replication area
11
12
define the number of characters to be defined as follows: number of characters =
2
are 0 and bit 8 is set to 1, the bytes that make up the character definition
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Chapter 6 " IBM Proprinter XL " - 18
<1Bh><49h>n
<1Bh><3Dh>n1n220n3(...
Rows 2 - 9
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