%Custom Characters
Custom Characters
Your printer's custom (downline loadable) character feature enables you to design your own characters
and symbols, even entire character sets if you choose, and download them from your computer to the
printer. You can design and store up to 256 characters. Your custom characters are assigned to the keys
of your choice on your keyboard. Then, whenever you need a particular character, all you have to do is
invoke the custom character set and press the key assigned to your character. The actual designing of
these characters requires some work on your part and can become tedious. Once again, we strongly
recommend using a commercial software package to help you create new characters and download them
to your printer. There are also packages that provide character sets already designed for you.When
setting up a grid to design custom characters, use the matrix width values given in the "Custom
Character Widths" table below. Note that the width of the grid depends on both the print mode and the
character pitch being used. The height of the grid is 24 dots. You must leave blank rows and columns
where necessary around the perimeter of the figure to allow for spacing. In all print modes, you can't
place two dots next to each other horizontally--you must skip one column between dots.
ML 380 ( 96-02-03 )
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