Seiko Instruments DPU-30 - Manual (Page 14)

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One line full print The printing executed when the data in the line buffer exceeds one line.
Character data for one line is stored in the line buffer. When inflowing
data exceeds the number of characters that can be stored in the line buffer,
the data in the line buffer are printed. The overflowing data is stored at
the beginning of the next line.
Kanji size characters
Kanji and user-defined characters.
Standard size
Extended graphics characters, katakana, and downloaded characters.
characters
Font
The form of a character. A character is composed of a group of dots.
The user can define a font using downloaded fonts, etc.
Font size
The size of a character. There are two font sizes, 16-dot font size and
24-dot font size.
The sizes for standard size and Kanji size characters are shown below.
Each size is represented as vertical dots by horizontal dots.
16-dot (height
× width) 24-dot (height × width)
Standard size characters 16
Ч 8
24
Ч 12
Kanji size characters 16
Ч 16
24
Ч 24
1-byte characters/
Classification by character codes.
2-byte characters Characters can be specified by 2 types of character codes: 1-byte
character codes and 2-byte character codes.
2-byte character is effective when the situation of kanji mode is specified.
Characters that can be specified by 1-byte character codes include:
• Alphabets, Numbers, and Katakana
• Extended graphics characters
• Downloaded characters
Characters that can be specified by 2-byte character codes include:
• Kanji
• User-defined characters