SII DPU-S245, Technical Reference

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Line Spacing
Line spacing is the space between the lines of printed characters (See Figure 1-2).
ABC
ABC
Line Spacing
Figure 1-2 Line Spacing
This printer use a line thermal print mechanism, therefore, a paper feed step is necessary before
printing characters or bit images.
The line feed command with printing feeds the paper for height of characters or bit images.
Therefore, a paper feed amount which is smaller than character or bit image height is ignored.
Printing with underline feeds the paper 4 dot lines in addition to the character height.
Line feeding without printing feeds the paper for specified line feed amount.
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Character Spacing
Character spacing is the space between each character in the horizontal direction (See Figure
1-3).
A B
Character Spacing
Figure 1-3 Character Spacing
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Line
The word “line” in this manual indicates a line of characters. For example, the sentence “the printer
feeds paper one line” indicates that the printer feeds paper a line of characters.
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Dot Line
The words “dot line” in this manual indicate a line of dots in the vertical direction. For example, the
sentence “the printer feeds paper by one dot line” indicates that the printer feeds paper by the
space of 1 dot.
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Notation in the Technical Reference
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Hexadecimal
Hexadecimal is showing as follows;
Example: 0AH (a hexadecimal unit 'H' is added behind a hexadecimal number.)
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Character string
A character string is showing as follows;
Example: 'G' (a character string 'G' is enclosed with a single quotation mark.)