Epson ActionLaser 1500 User Manual - Page 31

WordStar 6.0 1. Type ^P!. 2. WordStar prompts you for the charactersyou want to send to the printer. Type the command. 3. The program prompts you for the characters you want to display on the screen. Type a descriptive name for your command. Printing foreign of other characters The printer is capable of printing many characters other than those shown on your keyboard. Most software packages have a method to let you enter a number corresponding to the character you want to print so that you can print that character. You can find the number you need to enter by looking at the symbol set tables in this manual. (See Available Fonts and Symbol Sets in Appendix B.) Many software packages expect you to type a decimal number corresponding to the character. There is a hexadecimal to decimal conversion listing in "Printer command arranged by topic" in Appendix B of this manual. Note that the same numeric code prints different characters depending on the symbol set the printer is currently using. For example, the yen sign corresponds to decimal 188 (hexadecimal BC) in the Roman-8 symbol set. In the IBM-US character set, the yen sign is decimal 157 (hexadecimal 9D). Controlling Your Printer 1-15