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This command will cancel any user-defined characters you
have created. You must send this command to the printer
before you define characters.
If you use this command at the beginning of a program, then define
your special characters and select the user-defined character set, you
can print with the user-defined set as your normal character set. You’ll
never need to switch back and forth between sets.
Letter Quality characters
If you select Letter Quality printing with the ESCape “xl” com-
mand, you can design user-defined characters using up to 29 columns
of the Letter Quality/Proportional grid. The dot columns are spaced
closer together horizontally than draft style dot columns (the horizon-
tal dot spacing is 1/360th of an inch as opposed to 1/120th of an inch
for draft characters).
Proportional mode characters
Selecting the proportional character mode will yield user-defined
characters of the highest resolution. Characters can be designed using
all 37 columns of the Letter Quality/Proportional grid.
Remember that in Letter Quality and proportional, as in draft, you
cannot place dots in adjacent columns. There must be an empty dot
position to the left and right of each dot that prints.
Superscripts and subscripts
You can also create superscript and subscript user-defined charac-
ters. Just as Letter Quality characters are defined when the Letter
Quality mode is selected, super/subscript characters are created when
either superscript or subscript is selected.
These super/subscript characters can be used either as superscripts
or as subscripts. The characters are exactly the same; it is only their
placement that differs. The difference between super/subscript
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