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EPSON

FX-80

PRINTER

USER'S

MANUAL

David A. Kater

FCC

COMPLIANCE

STATEMENT

FOR

AMERICAN

USERS

This equipment generates

and

uses radio frequency energy

and

if not installed and used

properly, that is, in strict accordance with the manufacturer's instructions,

may

cause

interference toradio andtelevision reception..!t hasbeentype tested andfound to comply

with the limits for a Class B computing device in accordance with the specifications in

Subpart Jof Part 15 of FCC rules, which are designed to provide reasonable protection

against such interference in a residential installation. However, there

guarantee that

interference will

not

occur in a particular installation.

this equipment does cause inter-

ference

radio

television reception, which can be determined

turning the equip-

ment off

and

on, the user

encouraged to try to correct the interference

one

more of

the following measures:

-Reorient the receiving antenna

-Relocate the computer with respect to the receiver

-Move the computer into a different outlet so that computer

and

receiver are on

different branch circuits.

necessary, the user should consult the dealer

experienced radio/television techni-

cian for additional suggestions. The user

may

find the following booklet prepared

the

Federal Communications Commission helpful:

"How to Identify and Resolve Radio-TV Interference Problems."

This booklet

available from the

u.S.

Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

20402. Stock No. 004-000-00345-4.

transmitted, in any form

any means, mechanical, photocopying, recording

other-

wise, without the prior written permission of Epson America, Inc. No patent liability

as-

sumed with respect to the use of the information containedherein. While every precaution has

been taken in the preparation of this book, Epson America, Inc. and the author assume

responsibility for errors

omissions. Neither

any liability assumed for damages resulting

from the use of the information contained herein.

Apple@

a registered trademark of Apple Computer, Inc.

Centronics@

a registered trademark of

Data

Computer Corporation.

Concept'· is a trademark of Corvus Systems, Inc.

DEC

the Digital Equipment Corporation.,

NEC

the NEC Information Systems, Inc., a subsidiary of Nippon Electronic Company, Ltd.

TRS-8Q®

a registered trademark of Radio Shack, a division of Tandy Corporation.

Microcomputing

published

Wayne Green Publishers.

1983

Epson America, Inc.

Torrance, California 90505

FX-80 User's Manual

The Chapters at a Glance

1 Looking It

Over

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

2 Controlling the Printer from BASIC

..............

3 Print Pitches

..........................

, . . . . . . .

4 Print Quality

.................................

5 Dress-Up Modes

and

Master Select

...............

6 Special Print Features

..........................

7 Line Spacing

and

Line Feeds

.....................

8 Forms Control

................................

Formatting.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

101

10 Saving Vertical Tabs in Channels

.................

119

11 Introduction to Dot Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

12 Printer Graphics: Firing Single Pins

.............

. . 137

Graphics Pin Patterns

and

......................

141

New Graphics Modes

14 Two Types of Graphics

Programs.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

155

Plotter Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

16 Advanced Graphics in Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

17 User-Defined Characters

........................

195

18 Combining User-Defined Characters

..............

211

19 Printing Applications

..........................

225

iii

Table

Contents

Table of Contents

..................................

iii

Table of Figures

........................

, . . . . . . . . . . .

Table of Tables

....................................

Introduction

......................................

xvii

FX-80

Features.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii

What's Inside the Printer

..........................

xviii

Using the

Manual

................................

Your Personal Guide

.............................

xxi

One

Easy Lesson

.................................

. xxv

First Steps

......................................

xxv

Ticket Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxvi

Ticket Program Description

.......................

xxviii

Looking It

Over

..............................

Supplies

and

Accessories

.......................

Find Your

FX-80

a Safe Home

...................

First Things First

.............................

The

covers

................................

The

ribbon

................................

The

paper

guide

............................

Paper

Feeders

................................

The

feeders

.............................

The

optional tractor feeder

...................

The

friction feeder

..........................

Parts

with

Settings

............................

The

paper

thickness lever

....................

Function switches

...........................

Starting

..................................

Top panel buttons

and

lights

..................

The

FX-80 tests itself

........................

Controlling the Printer from BASIC

.............

BASIC Communications

.......................

The

CHR$ function

..........................

Printing from BASIC

........................

BASIC basics

..............................

Control codes

..............................

ESCape

...................................

Resetting

Commands

..........................

The

Master Reset Code

......................

The

print buffer

............................

CANcel

and

DELete

........................

Specific reset codes

..........................

ASCII Characters in ESCape Sequences

...........

Summary

..........................

:.........

Notation

Used in This Manual . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Print Pitches

.................................

Dot-Matrix

Printing.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

The

print head

..............................

Main

columns

..............................

Intermediate positions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37

Modes for Pitches

.............................

Pica

and

Elite Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38

Compressed

Mode

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40

Conflicting modes

...........................

Mixing Pitch Modes

...........................

Expanded Mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Mixing print pitches

one line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Summary....................................

Quality

................................

Modes for Weights

............................

Double-Strike Mode

........................

Emphasized

Mode

..........................

Emphasized

and

Double-Strike

................

in concert

Proportional

Mode

............................

Mixing of Modes

.........................

Mode

Priorities

...............................

Summary....................................

Dress-Up Modes

and

Master Select

..............

Dress-Up Modes

.............................

Underline Mode

............................

Super-

and

Subscript Modes

..................

Italic Mode

................................

Master Print Mode Select

......................

The inner workings of . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

the Master Select

Unique modes

..............................

Switching modes with Master Select

............

The Master Select as a subroutine

..............

Summary

....

;...............................

Special Print Features

.........................

Special Characters

............................

The backspace function

......................

Some special characters

......................

International characters

......................

International switches

.......................

Special Speeds

...............................

Half-Speed Mode

...........................

Immediate Print Mode

......................

Solving the 7-Bit Dilemma

.....................

Summary

...................................

Line Spacing

and

Line Feeds

....................

Line Spacing

.................................

Changing line spacing

.......................

Variable line spacing

........................

Microscopic line spacing

.....................

Line Feeds

...................................

One-time, immediate line feed

.................

Reverse feed

................................

Summary....................................

Forms Control

...............................

Controlling Form Length

......................

Form feed

.................................

Not-so-standard forms

......................

Absolute form length

.......................

Avoiding the Paper Perforation

.................

The

SOP

solution

..........................

Setting the

SOP

with a switch

.................

The Single-Sheet Trick . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Summary....................................

9 Formatting

..................................

Vertical Tabs

.................................

. 101

101

Activating vertical tabs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102

Fixed VTabs

................................

106

Range limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

Horizontal Tabs

...............................

106

Default horizontal tabs

.......................

112

BASIC TABs

.................................

113

Setting the Margins

............................

113

Left margin . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113

Right margin

...............................

114

Using the margin

commands

together

...........

115

Margin Settings

and

Other

Modes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115

Unidirectional Print . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116

Summary...............

.....................

117

10 Saving Vertical Tabs in Channels

.................

119

Setting the Numbers

...........................

119

Filling in Preprinted Forms

......................

124

Multiple-Page Forms

...........................

124

. . . Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125

Summary

....................................

125

11 Introduction to

Dot

Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127

The

Big

Dot

Matrix

............................

127

Graphics

Mode

.............................

128

Entering a Graphics

Mode

....................

129

The

7-Bit Limitation

...........................

130

Firing the pins

..............................

132

Testing, testing

..............................

133

First Graphics

Program

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Graphics

Width

Limitations

.....................

135

Summary

....................................

135

12 Printer Graphics: Firing Single Pins

...........

. . . . 137

Controlling the Pins . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137

Changing direction

..........................

138

Graphics Line Spacing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139

Variable

Control

..............................

139

vii

13 Graphics Pin Patterns

and

......................

141

New Graphics Modes

Software Notes

...............................

142

More Software Notes

..........................

142

Changing Densities

............................

143

High-Speed

Double-Density.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143

Graphics Mode

Low-Speed Double-Density

...................

144

Graphics Mode

Quadruple-Density Graphics

Mode.

. . . . . . . . . . . . 146

More densities

..............................

147

9-Pin Graphics Mode

..........................

149

Pattern Design

................................

151

Repeating a

pattern.

. . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . . . 152

Repeating DATA numbers

....................

152

Summary

....................................

153

14 Two Types of Graphics

Programs.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 155

The Planning Process

..........................

155

Logo Design

..................................

156

3-Dimensional

Design.

. . . . . . . . . . . . .

. . . . . . . . . . 158

Entering the program

........................

160

Flexing

your

graphics muscles

.................

163

15 Plotter Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167

Arrays..

.....................................

168

DIMensioning

array

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Filling

array . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170

Plotting a

Circle.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171

Translating the ones to dots

...................

172

One

last step . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173

Problem

.....................................

175

Higher Resolution

.............................

175

Reflections

...................................

177

The exploding universe

.......................

178

The

big bang

...............................

179

viii

16 Advanced Graphics in Memory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183

Generating the Array (Phase One) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184

Describing the 2-Dimensional . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186

Matrix (Pause)

Calculating Pin Patterns (Phase Two)

.............

187

Setting the Graphics Width . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188

(Phase Three)

Printing the Figure (Phase Four) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189

Variations

a Theme (Phase Five)

. . . . . . . . . . . . .

191

17 User-Defined

Characters.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195

Preparation.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Defining

Characters.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196

Designing characters

..........................

197

Translating dots to

DATA.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199

The attribute byte

...........................

199

Proportional print information

................

200

Printing User-Defined Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

202

Download Commands

.........................

204

Defining Strings of Characters

...................

205

Defining Control Codes

........................

205

Printing low-order control codes

...............

207

Mode Strings

.................................

209

Strata

.......................................

209

Summary

....................................

210

18 Combining User-Defined Characters

..............

211

Large Letters: Double Wide

.....................

211

Large Letters: Double High . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

213

Large Letters: Double High . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

213

and

Double Wide

Let's Print

....................................

217

Building Symbols from a Small Core Set

..........

221

Line Graphics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

223

19 Printing Applications

..........................

225

Preparing for Take-off

.......

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

226

Barchart

.....................................

226

Statement Form

...............................

229

Entering the program

........................

233

Program overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

234

Line-by-line comments

.......................

235

999 REM: THE END

..........................

236

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