Printronix ANSI Printer User Manual

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SFCC

Special Function Control Character. The first
character in a printer command sequence. In
Proprinter III XL emulation mode, you can select one
of five characters as the SFCC. In Epson emulation
mode, the SFCC must always be the ASCII escape
character (ESC). See also command sequence and
escape sequence.

shadow printing

A typeface with a heavy line thickness produced by
doublestriking. The printer forms a character, then
prints it again, but fractionally offset from the first
position. See also bold, character weight.

shuttle

The subassembly in a line matrix printer that includes
the hammer bank assembly and some or all of the
drive mechanism.

sixel

A vertical column consisting of six pixels and treated
as a unit in graphics applications.

size, type

See point.

SLD

Set Line Density

slewing

Rapid vertical paper movement.

SNA

Systems Network Architecture. A hardware and
software protocol used on IBM mainframe networks.

soft reset

See warm start.

SOH

Start Of Header

spacing

See font, proportional and font, monospaced.

SSCC

SuperSet Control Code. It is of the form SFCC | } ;
and is used to execute superset commands.

start bit

The signal that indicates the start of a character or
element in a serial data stream.

stop bit

The signal that indicates the end of a character or
element in a serial data stream.

string

Two or more bytes of data or code treated as a unit.

style, type

See type style.

superset commands

Commands which are an extension to the base
LinePrinter+ printer protocol, such as the bar code
commands for the Epson FX protocol. See also
SSCC.

symbol set

See character set.

T

TCB

Task Control Block

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