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