Designing Monospaced Fast Draft Characters - Lexmark FORMS 249X Technical Reference

Note: The lookup tables copied using the ESC = 0 0 command point to the res-
For more information, see "Downloading a New Font" on page 120.
The following four examples get you started. The first is an example of
designing and downloading a monospaced Fast Draft character with
compression. The second is an example of designing and downloading a draft
character without compression. The third example illustrates how to design and
download an LQ proportional character with compression. The fourth example
shows how to design and download an ELQ 10 cpi character with compression.
A description of downloading an entire font is in the following examples.

Designing Monospaced Fast Draft Characters

When designing monospaced Fast Draft characters, design the character for 10
cpi output and use as many dot-columns as possible.
Start with a grid that is 9 dots wide by 24 dots high. Although the character
matrix is 10 dots wide, column 10 must be left blank.
ident fonts with the current code page. After receiving an ESC = 0 0 com-
mand, the download area appears empty. Any valid download com-
mand activates the download access.
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