User guide

Fonts and Character Attributes on the LA600 MultiPrinter

19.4 Density Selection (DECDEN)

Table 19–4 Typestyles and Print Densities

Typestyle Draft NLQ LQ

Courier Y Y Y

Roman See a. Y Y

Sans Serif See a. Y Y

Prestige See a. Y Y

Script See a. Y Y

OCR-A See a. See b. Y

OCR-B See a. See b. Y

Orator See a. Y Y

Orator-C See a. Y Y

Data Block

Y See c. See c.

Data Block forces proportional spacing, and accepts combinations of attributes (bold, slant, etc.).

Key to Font Selection:

Y: Available combination

a. - Font selection falls back to Courier, draft

b. - Font selection falls back to the selected typestyle, LQ

c. - Font selection falls back to Data Block, draft

The SGR and DECDEN commands should be used together to produce the

fonts described in Table 19–4. For example, to select Roman in the LQ print

density send the DECDEN sequence:

CSI 2 " z

and the SGR sequence:

CSI 11 m

To select Script in NLQ print density, send DECDEN sequence:

CSI 3 " z

and the SGR sequence

CSI 14 m

19–6 Fonts and Character Attributes on the LA600 MultiPrinter