Epson FX-80 Operation Manual page 132

<Definition of download characters in Proportional mode>
In Proportional printing, all data will be automatically printed in emphasized
characters. At this point, as each dot is printed as shown below, if the print area for
the proportional data is specified as Oth to 10th positions, the dot at the 11th
position cannot be printed.
Therefore, when defining a download character in Proportional mode, set the
ending print position for the download character so that the position value is 1 or
greater than the actual position of the last data.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . 0
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2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
• • 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 • •
Pica-sized mode
Enlarged or Emphasized mode
Note that all of download character data PI to Pll must be sent to the printer. Also,
if horizontally adjacent dots are specified, they will be automatically ignored.
In the following lessons, actual examples of defining Download characters are
given.
LESSON 1 _
In this lesson, a box pattern will be defined in place of
"@".
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