Modifying Resident Fonts 4-3
S e l e c t i n g C h a r a c t e r S e t s
Before selecting a character set, remove the printer’s battery and wait
several seconds. Then, replace the battery and immediately use one of
these commands to select the character set to modify.
When it receives either of these commands, the printer copies the character
set to memory, then sends a ‘?’ character to t he handheld.
The printer returns any characters not accepted as part of this command.
Do Not
send any commands to the printer between
turning it on and selecting the character set.
Command Summary
Command
Description
ESC-'DA0'
Selects characters from the ASCII character
set (
33-127
).
ESC-'DX'-<charfont>
Selects characters and fonts from the
Extended ASCII or ANSI character set (
128-
255
).
<charfont>
0
Extended ASCII characters – Large
Rotated, Large Normal, and Standard
Bold fonts.
1
Extended ASCII characters – Standard
Normal, Reduced Bold, and Reduced
Normal fonts.
2
ANSI characters –Large Rotated, Large
Normal, and Standard Bold fonts.
3
ANSI characters –Standard Normal,
Reduced Bold, and Reduced Normal
fonts.
The Next Step
You have now selected the character set you are modifying. The next step
is to load the character into the set.
