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PRINT DOWNLOADED LOGOS - To print a downloaded logo #2 starting at row/column position 50,120 send:

<SP50,120><LD2>

The following sample Basic program illustrates one way to send a downloaded logo to the printer (use the figure

for reference).

10 CLS

20 OPEN "COM1:9600,N,8,1,RS,DS60000" AS #1

30 PRINT#1,CHR$(27);

40 PRINT#1,"<RC0,0><G21>";

50 FOR X=1 TO 21:READ A:PRINT#1,CHR$(A);:NEXT X

60 DATA 3,12,24,48,96,70,70,64,64,64,64,64,67,65,64,64,64,72,85,85,34

70 PRINT#1,CHR$(13);

80 PRINT#1,"<G21>";

90 FOR X=1 TO 21:READ A:PRINT#1,CHR$(A);:NEXT X

100 DATA 224,24,12,6,3,49,49,1,1,1,1,1,97,193,1,1,1,137,85,85,34

110 PRINT#1,CHR$(27);

120 END

Lines 30 and 110 send the ESC character that must bracket the transmission. Line 40 sends the initial

reference point of row 0,column 0 and signals the printer that there are 21 graphics bytes coming. The first byte

sent is a value of 3. Refer to the figure to see how this is determined. Note that semicolons are used to

suppress spaces and carriage returns being sent between bytes and commands. Any extraneous data sent will

cause unwanted results. Also note that in this example a return character chr$(13) is sent in place of the

row/column command in line 70. Therefore, you could double the size of this logo by sending a <HW2,2>

command before the print logo command.

DOWNLOADING IN ASCII FORMAT - Downloading of logos can be done in ASCII format just like ASCII

graphics. It follows all of the above rules except that a small g is used instead of a capital G and the bytes of

data are represented as ASCII characters not decimal. The Basic program above would be re-written for ASCII

downloading mode as follows:

10 CLS

20 OPEN "COM1:9600,N,8,1,RS,DS60000" AS #1

30 PRINT#1,CHR$(27);

40 PRINT#1,"<RC0,0><g42>";

45 PRINT#1,"030C18306046464040404040434140404048555522";

50 PRINT#1,CHR$(13);

55 PRINT#1,"<g42>";

60 PRINT#1,"E0180C06033131010101010161C101010189555522";

65 PRINT#1,CHR$(27);

70 END