Font Selection Commands ; 5.2.1. User-defined symbol sets ; 5.2.2. Symbol set ID code command - Page 61

2001/10/02 

CHAPTER 2 "PCL" - 41 

5.2. 

Font Selection Commands 

5.2.1.  User-defined symbol sets 

User-defined symbol sets  can be used with Unbound scalable fonts.  Three new commands below are prepared 
for use to control a user-defined symbol set. 

To define a symbol set,  its ID code must first be defined.   

Next, a list of symbols for the symbol set must be downloaded. 

Then,  you can use the defined ID code for the symbol set selection. 

5.2.2.  Symbol set ID code command 

Esc*c#R 

(27)(42)(99)#(82) 

<1Bh><2Ah><63h>#<52h> 

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Value for # can be from 0 to 2047. 

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This command defines the ID code for a user-defined symbol set which can be used to control symbol set 

selection. 

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The symbol set ID code defined by this command must be calculated by using the following formula. 

Symbol Set ID Code = ( # x 32 ) + ( ID - 64 )   

Symbol set selection values consists of numerical character(s) and an alphabetical character. 

For example,  8U is the symbol set selection value for Roman-8.  In this case,  the Symbol set ID code 

is 277 as the result of the following calculation. 
  

(8 x 32 ) + (85 - 64) = 277 

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Make sure to select an unused number for a new ID code that you define. If the ID code has been used 

already,  the printer deletes the existing symbol set and defines the new symbol set. 

5.2.3.  Define symbol set 

Esc(f#W[data]  (27)(49)(102)#(87) 

<1Bh><28h><66h>#<57h> 

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# value can be from 18 to 32767. 

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# stands for number of bytes of data that follow this command. 

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If an existing ID code is used for a user-defined symbol set,  it is overwritten. 

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Up to 2047 downloadable user-defined symbol sets can be stored subject to the printer's memory capacit y. 

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If a memory full error occurs while downloading the user-defined symbol set,  the symbol set which is being 

downloaded becomes invalid. 

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The symbol set which is defined by this command is temporarily stored in the printer memory. 

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The data following this command should be in the following format. 

15                                           8 
MSB  

7                                             0 
                                          LSB 

0 - 1 

Header Size (18) 

2 - 3 

Encoded symbol set designator 

4 - 5 

Format 

Symbol Set Type 

6 - 7 

First Code 

8 - 9 

Last Code 

10 -     Character Requirements 

Symbol Map [Last Code - First code + 1 ] 

(B) 

Boolean  

(0,1) 

(UB) 

Unsigned Byte 

(0 ~ 255) 

(SB) 

Signed Byte  

( -128 ~ 127 ) 

(UI) 

Unsigned Integer  

( 0 ~ 65535 ) 

(SI) 

Signed Integer 

( - 32768 ~ 32767 ) 

(ULI)   

Unsigned Long Integer 

( 0 ~ 2

32

-1) 

(SLI) 

Signed Long Integer 

(-2

31

 ~ 2

31

 - 1) 

(ASC**) 

ASCII string array 

(0 ~ **-1) of characters