Using different character sets – First Alert ACTION T-1000 User Manual

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Using Different Character Sets

The printer incorporates a special character set: Epson Character

Graphics. This set allows you to take, advantage of the power of the

Epson commands and still print out the character graphics used by IBM

and IBM-compatible computers and by much commercial software. For

example, if your word processor can include the characters to draw

boxes and shade areas, you can produce some very professional effects.

You can select the Epson Character Graphics set with your software or

by setting DIP switch l-3 ON. For most applications it is best to use the

DIP switch instead of the software command because the character

graphics are then available as soon as you turn the printer on.

The other important change you can make to the standard character set

is to change some characters for ones commonly used in other

languages-chiefly European and Scandinavian-such as accented

characters and symbols. Eight international character sets can be selected

by setting DIP switches 1-6 to 1-8: USA, French, German, UK, Danish,

Swedish, Italian, and Spanish. See Chapter 5 for the DIP switch settings.
These eight, and five more, can also be selected by a software

command. The additional character sets are the following:

Norwegian, a second Danish set, Japanese, a second Spanish set, and

Latin American. The table on the next page shows all of these

characters.

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