Lexmark Forms Printer 2480 Technical Reference - Page 110
Initializing the Download Area, Downloading a Draft/NLQ Character Set, Part One: Calculating Count 1
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Initializing the Download Area Use the following command to initialize the download areas to the resident fonts: Downloading a Draft/NLQ Character Set The sequence to download characters for Draft/NLQ and Fast Draft is shown below: Syntax: ESC = count1 count2 font id start Decimal: 27 61 count1 count2 20 start Hex: 1B 3D count1 count2 14 start There are two parts of the ESC = escape sequence. Part one includes count 1, count 2, font ID byte, and the start code. Use this part once for each download command. Part two is made up of one or more sequences of 13 bytes of data. The first two bytes of data are the 2 attribute bytes, and the remaining 11 bytes (3 through 13) are printable data. Repeat this part (2 attribute bytes plus 11 printable bytes) for each character you download: attr1 attr2 col1 col2 col3 ... col11 Part One: Calculating Count 1, Count 2 Count 1, count 2 Font ID byte Start is a two-byte integer value, starting with the low order byte followed by the high order byte. is 20 (x14) for the Draft/NLQ font. The start code specifies the first download character. The download characters replace normal characters starting at that code point. For example, to download a character set that replaces characters starting with the uppercase letter 'A', use a start code of 65 (x41). 110 Section 7: Downloading Characters and Fonts