User's Manual
Table Of Contents
- FRONT MATTER
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAP 1-SETTING UP THE PRINTER
- CHAP 2-PAPER HANDLING
- CHAP 3-USING THE PRINTER
- CHAP 4-USING SOFTWARE AND GRAPHICS
- Using the LQ-2550 With Application Programs
- Computer-Printer Communication
- Enhancing Your Printing
- Graphics
- User-Defined Characters
- Designing Your Characters
- Design Grids
- Data Numbers
- Sending Information to Your Printer
- Printing User-Defined Characters
- Copying ROM Characters to RAM
- Letter Quality Characters
- Proportional Mode Characters
- Superscripts and Subscripts
- The Graphics Command
- Column Reservation Numbers
- A simple Graphics Program
- Using Hand-Calculated Data to Print Graphics
- Using Software and Graphics
- Mixing Print Styles
- CHAP 5-MAINTENANCE AND TRANSPORTATION
- CHAP 6-TROUBLESHOOTING
- Troubleshooting
- Problems and Solutions
- The Printer Does Not Print
- The Printer Stops Printing
- The Printout is Spaced Incorrectly
- The Printout is Faint or Uneven
- The Printout is Not what You Expect
- Single Sheets Do Not Feed Properly
- Continuous Paper Does Not Feed Properly
- Cut Sheet Feeder Does Not Load Paper Correctly
- The Short Tear-Off Feature Does Not Work Properly
- Color Printing Is Not What You Expect
- Data Dump Mode
- CHAP 7-USING PRINTER OPTIONS
- CHAP 8-COMMAND SUMMARY
- APPENDIX A-TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- GLOSSARY
- INDEX
This chapter lists and describes all the commands available on your
printer. The Command Summary is divided by topics, but there is a list
of the commands in numerical order beginning on page
8-5.
If you know
which command you are looking for, see this list to find the page number
where it is described.
The Quick Reference card at the end of the book also contains a list of
the commands divided by topic, with page references that direct you to
full explanations of the commands.
The commands described in this summary are divided into the following
subjects:
Printer operation
Print size and character width
MSB control
Print enhancement
Data control
Word processing
Vertical motion
Character tables
Horizontal motion
User-defined characters
Overall printing style
Graphics
Each command has a format section
and
a comments section. The
format section gives the ASCII, decimal, and hexadecimal codes for the
command. The comments section describes the effect of the command
and gives any additional information
necessary
for using it.
The format section includes:
ASCII:
the sequence in standard ASCII characters
Decimal:
the sequence in decimal numbers
Hexadecimal: the sequence in hexadecimal numbers
8-2
Command Summary