User's Manual

Control Code Definitions
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6820 Series 80-Column Printer User’s Manual
Character Sets and User-Defined Functions
Different character sets may be installed in the 6820 Printer. In some cases
more than one character set may be present at one time, depending on the
amount of available font memory. The 6820 Printer reserves 438K of
memory for installable fonts in FLASH memory. You can install these
character s ets using NPCP or the flash configuration utility available in the
6820 Tool Kit. They can a lso install in flash at the time of manufacture or
service. A printer tool kit is available for installing selected font modules.
Single Byte Character Sets
SBCSs are supported for MS-DOS, PL/N, and Intermec application com-
patibility. NFT00000.MOD is the default character set (font) for compati-
bility with the 4820 Printer. NFT00437.MOD is the IBM/Microsoft
compatible character set for codepage 437.
Double-Byte Character Sets
DBCSs require two b ytes to send to the printer to define the character to
print. The first byte of the character code sent to the printer is known as a
lead -in byte. The second byte of the character code is known as the trailing
byte. Different character s ets have different requirements for the values of
both lead -in and trailing byte. When the lead-in byte does not fall in the
range listed for the character set, a character from a SBCS may print. The
following double-byte character sets are s upported by the 6820 Printer.
DBCS
Font Module
Code
Page
DBCS Language Lead-in Byte Trailing Byte
NFT00936.MOD 936 GB 2312 Chinese
(simplified)
A1h–ABh
B0h–F7h
A1h–FEh
NFT00950.MOD 950 big 5 Traditional
Chinese
A1h–C6h
C9h–F9h
40h–FEh (except
7Fh)
NFT00932.MOD 932 Shift JIS Japanese 81h–9Fh
E0h–FCh
40h–FCh (except
7Fh)
NFT00949.MOD 949 KSC 5601 Korean A1h–ACh
B0h–C8h
CAh–FDh
A1h–FEh
Note: See Appendix C, “ PrinterFontTestJobs,” for sample print jobs.