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CHAPTER 7: Advanced Features
Some commands, such as emphasized (
bold
) printing, may stay in effect
until another string is encountered that returns printing to normal, or, for
some host systems, until the next page is sent to the printer. The Card’s
self-test prints out a list of command numbers and the command strings
assigned to them.
7.3 User-Defined Fonts
The HPIIISi Twinax Card supports a vast variety of fonts. For a list of the
supported fonts, refer to
Appendixes A
and
D
. In addition, the “user-
defined fonts” feature allows you to assign new or existing font IDs to
different printer-resident fonts or to fonts from an optional font cartridge.
Up to 10 new pairs of font IDs and fonts can be assigned.
The following example assumes that the Card is installed in an
HP 4Si and that the default font is specified to be font 11. Font ID 11
represents the font Courier 10 CPI. If you want to change the default
font but maintain the font ID 11, simply assign a new font to ID 11 (for
example, Courier
bold
10 CPI). This is done by sending the host/PC-
download command “&%Z21,0,11(<(12U<(s0p10h12v 0s3b4099T)” to
the printer. Font ID 11 has now been redefined as Courier bold 10 CPI.
Consult the printer’s user’s guide for the information needed to write
the string.
In the same way, personalized font IDs can be assigned to printer-resident
fonts or to fonts from an optional font cartridge. These fonts can then be
called up by using the newly assigned font ID, the same way the standard
printer-resident fonts are called up.
User-defined fonts cannot be used with the ¬F font-change commands.
