Esc6 ; Esc7 ; Select expansion of printable code area - Page 284

2001/10/02 

CHAPTER 6 EPSON - 21 

Select expansion of printable code area 

Esc6  

(27)(54) 

<1Bh><36h> 

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This command enables you to print characters whose character codes are in the range 128 to 159.   

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You can define your own characters and assign codes in this range to them.  

LPRINT CHR$(27); CHR$(54); 'Expand printable area 

Cancel expansion of printable code area 

Esc7  

(27)(55) 

<1Bh><37h> 

This command prevents you from printing characters with codes in the range 128 to 159. 

LPRINT CHR$(27); CHR$(55); 'Cancel codes 128–159 

Expand printable code area 

EscIn 

(27)(73)n   

<1Bh><49h>n 

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This command permits you to enable or disable the printing of characters whose character codes are in 
the ranges 0 to 31 and 128 to 159.  You can define your own characters and assign codes in these 
ranges to them. 

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Set 

n

 to 1 to enable printing of characters in the ranges 0 to 31 and 128 to 159. 

• 

Set 

n

 to 0 to disable printing of characters in the ranges 0 to 31 and 128 to 159. 

• 

When you specify the value for 

n

 you can use the character codes for ‘0’ and ‘1’ (48 and 49) instead 

of 0 and 1 if you wish. 

LPRINT CHR$(27); CHR$(73); CHR$(1); 'Expand printable area 

Select international character set 

EscRn 

(27)(82)n   

<1Bh><52h>n 

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This command selects one of the available international character sets, refer to the printer User Guide 
for supported character sets. 

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Each character set varies slightly from the others and contains a small number of special characters 
necessary for printing in that particular language. 

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The selection you make with this command does not affect any italic or graphics character table 
selection that you may have made with the 

Esc t

 command. 

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The character sets listed below, plus several others, can also be selected from the printer’s control 
panel.   

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The character sets available and the corre sponding values of 

n

 are as follows: 

US ASCII 

0 

Japanese 

8 

French I 

1 

Norwegian 

9 

German 

2 

Danish II 

10 

UK ASCII I 

3 

UK ASCII II 

13 

Danish I 

4 

French II 

14 

Swedish 

5 

Dutch   

15 

Italy   

6 

South African 

16 

Spanish 

7 

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If you have selected the graphics character table with the 

Esc t 1 

command the following additional 

character sets are available. 

Norwegian set I 

17 

IBM set I 

19 

Norwegian set II 

18 

IBM set II 

20 

LPRINT CHR$(27); CHR$(82); CHR$(3); 'Select British char set 

Select italic / graphics character table 

Esct

n 

(27)(116)n  

<1Bh><74h>n 

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This command allows you to choose between two character tables - the italic character table and the 
graphics character table. 

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The two tables are shown in the Epson FX-850 section of the appendix at the end of this manual. 

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Set 

n

 to 0 to select the italic character table.  Character codes in the range 160 to 255 are now italic 

characters. 

• 

Set 

n

 to 1 to select the extended character table.  Character codes in the range 128 to 255 are now 

foreign language and graphics characters. 

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You can still print italic characters using the Select Italic Mode, Esc 4, command even when you have 
selected the graphics character table.