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User-defined Characters

Letter Quality Characters

If you select Letter Quality printing with the ESC xl command, 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 dot columns (the horizontal 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 yields 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 modes, as in draft
mode, you cannot place dots in adjacent columns. There must be

an

empty dot position both to the left and right of

each

dot that prints.

Superscripts and Subscripts

You can also create superscript and subscript user-defined characters.

Just as Letter Quality characters are defined when the Letter Quality

mode is selected, superscript and subscript characters are created when
either superscript or subscript is selected.

These characters can be used as either superscripts or subscripts. The

characters are exactly the same; only their placement is different. The

difference between these characters and regular characters is that

superscript and subscript characters are smaller. They are a maximum
of 16 dots high. Their maximum width in dot columns is shown in the

table below:

Mode

d1

Draft

7

Letter Quality

23

Proportional

23

d0 + d1 + d2

1 2

36

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