User guide

Glossary
Default
The standard initial setting of a feature or a parameter. Can usually be
modified.
DLL Font
A special character font (Down Line Loaded), which assigns a user-defined
matrix layout as the printable character of a given code.
Dot Matrix
Printing technology which creates characters (and graphics) by the composition
of programmed columns of dots.
Double Width Printing
Each character (even SPACE) is stretched horizontally to double the nominal
pitch width.
Down Line Loading
A procedure in which a file containing a user-defined or packaged font is
loaded in the printer memory using an ESCAPE sequence (see item).
DRAFT
Print mode with lowest dot resolution. Allows fast printing.
Driver
Software program which controls output to the printer and does necessary code
conversions between application program and printer.
Elementary Spacing
Smallest possible horizontal or vertical movement of the print head.
Emulation
Set of commands that can be interpreted by the printer to emulate a proprietary
printer.
ESCAPE Character
The special character with the decimal value 27 (ESC), which tells the printer
that the following character(s) form a control sequence.
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