Epson Y465ss127mo User Manual

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the character. By varying the width of the character itself and the spaces

around it, you can create proportional-width characters

that

print at

draft speed.

The table below

shows

the maximum values for these bytes.

The last part of the character definition is the actual data that defines the

dot patterns for each character. Since it takes three bytes to specify the

dots in one vertical column of dots, your printer expects

x 3

bytes of

data to follow

An example character definition program should make this clear:

10 LPRINT

20 LPRINT

LPRINT

40 LPRINT

50

FOR

TO 27

60 READ A: LPRINT

70

NEXT I

80 LPRINT
90 LPRINT
100 LPRINT
110 LPRINT
120 LPRINT

140

DATA

150 DATA

In line 10,

the

ESC x0 command selects draft style printing.

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