Brother International HL-1070 Technical Reference - Page 284

Select expansion of printable code area Esc6 (27)(54) • This command enables you to print characters whose character codes are in the range 128 to 159. • You can define your own characters and assign codes in this range to them. LPRINT CHR$(27); CHR$(54); 'Expand printable area 2001/10/02 Cancel expansion of printable code area Esc7 (27)(55) This command prevents you from printing characters with codes in the range 128 to 159. LPRINT CHR$(27); CHR$(55); 'Cancel codes 128-159 Expand printable code area EscIn (27)(73)n n • This command permits you to enable or disable the printing of characters whose character codes are in the ranges 0 to 31 and 128 to 159. You can define your own characters and assign codes in these ranges to them. • Set n to 1 to enable printing of characters in the ranges 0 to 31 and 128 to 159. • Set n to 0 to disable printing of characters in the ranges 0 to 31 and 128 to 159. • When you specify the value for n you can use the character codes for '0' and '1' (48 and 49) instead of 0 and 1 if you wish. LPRINT CHR$(27); CHR$(73); CHR$(1); 'Expand printable area Select international character set EscRn (27)(82)n n • This command selects one of the available international character sets, refer to the printer User Guide for supported character sets. • Each character set varies slightly from the others and contains a small number of special characters necessary for printing in that particular language. • The selection you make with this command does not affect any italic or graphics character table selection that you may have made with the Esc t command. • The character sets listed below, plus several others, can also be selected from the printer's control panel. • The character sets available and the corresponding values of n are as follows: US ASCII 0 Japanese 8 French I 1 Norwegian 9 German 2 Danish II 10 UK ASCII I 3 UK ASCII II 13 Danish I 4 French II 14 Swedish 5 Dutch 15 Italy 6 South African 16 Spanish 7 • If you have selected the graphics character table with the Esc t 1 command the following additional character sets are available. Norwegian set I 17 IBM set I 19 Norwegian set II 18 IBM set II 20 LPRINT CHR$(27); CHR$(82); CHR$(3); 'Select British char set Select italic / graphics character table Esctn (27)(116)n n • This command allows you to choose between two character tables - the italic character table and the graphics character table. • The two tables are shown in the Epson FX-850 section of the appendix at the end of this manual. • Set n to 0 to select the italic character table. Character codes in the range 160 to 255 are now italic characters. • Set n to 1 to select the extended character table. Character codes in the range 128 to 255 are now foreign language and graphics characters. • You can still print italic characters using the Select Italic Mode, Esc 4, command even when you have selected the graphics character table. CHAPTER 6 EPSON - 21