User's Manual

User-Defined Characters

Following the specification of the range of characters to be

defined in this command are three data bytes

(do-d2)

that specify

the width of the character and the space around it. The left space

(in dot columns) is specified by

do,

and the right space is specified

d2.

The second byte

(dl)

specifies the number of columns of

dots that are printed to make up the character. By varying the

width of the character itself and the spaces around it, you can

create proportional-width characters that print at draft speed. The

table below shows the maximum values for these bytes.

+ d2

(maximum)

Draft

Letter Quality 10 cpi

Letter Quality 12 cpi

Proportional

The last part of the character definition is the actual data that

defines the dot patterns for each character. Since it takes three bytes

to specify the dots in one vertical column of dots, the LQ expects

x 3 bytes of data to follow d2.

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