Epson FX-286 - Impact Printer, User Manual

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Once you have selected an international character set with the DIP
switches or the ESCape “R” code, you can use the tables to see which
keys on your standard keyboard can produce the international char-
acters you want. Simply type the character from the top row of one of
the figures in order to print the corresponding character in the row of
the set you have chosen.
For example, if you have reset the DIP switches for the UK charac-
ter set and you press the # key, the £ symbol will be generated. Even
though you will see the # symbol on the screen, the £ symbol will be
printed on the paper. For another example, if you have selected the
Swedish character set and you press the @ key, the É symbol will be
generated.
If your keyboard does not have one of the keys that you need, you
will have to send the proper ASCII number to the printer in another
way, such as a programming language.
In the IBM Proprinter mode, some international characters are in
the standard character set, and many more are in the alternate charac-
ter set. If your FX-286 is in the IBM mode, the following program
prints the international characters in the standard set, skips a line, and
prints the international characters in the alternate set, as you can see in
the printout below it.
10 LPRINT CHR$(126);
20 FOR X=160 TO 168
30
LPRINT CHR$(X);: NEXT X
40
LPRINT CHR$(27)
“6”:
LPRINT
50
FOR X=126 TO 168
60 LPRINT CHR$(X);: NEXT X
70 LPRINT
The alternate character set can also be selected with a DIP switch.
See Appendix A.
The IBM Proprinter character sets also include Greek letters. See
Appendix K for complete printouts of both character sets.
Page Formatting
Although the FX-286 printer has many sophisticated commands to
set margins, line spacing, and horizontal and vertical tabs, this section
won’t take up your time with extensive discussions of these because
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