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Unbound font.  Character codes corres ponding to MSL numbers are acceptable. 

11 

Unbound font.  Character codes corresponding to Unicode numbers are acceptable. 

When a 7-bit font or 8-bit font is selected,  it is possible for codes 00H to FFH to load characters or delete 
them. It is also possible to print the characters if they are defined as transparent print data.   

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Style MSB (UW) - combined with the Style LSB to make the style word. The value of the style word is 

calculated as follows: style word = posture + (4  width) + (32  structure). 

Value 

Posture 

0 

Upright 

1 

Italic 

2 

Alternate Italic 

3 

Reserved 

Value 

Width 

0 

Normal 

1 

Condensed 

2 

Compressed or Extra Condensed 

3 

Extra compressed 

4 

Ultra compressed 

5 

Reserved 

6 

Extended or Expanded 

7 

Extra Extended or Extra Expanded 

Value 

Structure 

0 

Solid 

1 

Outline 

2 

In-line 

3 

Contour 

4 

Solid with Shadow 

5 

Outline with Shadow 

6 

Inline with Shadow 

7 

Contour with Shadow 

8-11 

Patterned (Complex patterns, subject to type family ) 

12-15 

Patterned with Shadow 

16 

Inverse 

17 

Inverse in Open Border 

18-30 

Reserved 

31 

Unknown structure 

The reserved bits should be set to Zero. 

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Baseline position (UI) -  

Bitmap font - 

the height in dots from the top of the character cell to the baseline. The units of dots is 
the same as the defined font resolution.  This number can be in the range 0 to (cell 
height - 1).   

Intellifont scalable - 

a Y coordinate in the design cell. 

TrueType scalable - 

the height in dots from the top of the character cell to the baseline.  This should be set 
to 0. 

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Cell width (UI) - ignored by these printers. The width in dots of the character cell. This can be from 1 to 65535. 

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Cell height (UI) - ignored by these printers. The height in dots of the character cell. This can be from 1 to 

65535. 

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Orientation (UB) - 0(portrait), 1(landscape), 2(reverse portrait) or 3(reverse landscape). Ignored by these 

printers. 

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Spacing (B) - the type of spacing, 0 (fixed pitch) or 1 (proportional spacing). 

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Symbol set (UI) - a symbol set ID consists of a number and a letter. The symbol set attribute v alue is 

calculated as follows: symbol set = (32 

x

 number) + (ASCII value of letter - 64). For example, Math-8 has the 

symbol set ID ‘8M’ so it would be encoded as (32 

x

 8) + (77 – 64) = 269.