Laser Printer User Manual

Youprobablywon’tchangesymbolsetsveryoften,unlessyouneedspecial

symbolsfor yourtradeor regularlywritein alanguageotherthanEnglish.

Whenyoudoneedthem,though,inoneoranotheremulationmodeyourStar

LaserPrinter4 supportssymbolsetsfor allthesecountries:

U.S. (ASCII) UnitedKingdom

France

Germany

Sweden

Finland

Italy

Denmark Norway

Spain

Besidestheseyourprintersupportssetscontainingjustsymbols,suchasthe

Greekalphabet(13),logicsymbols(S),arrows(t), theqjistered trademark

symbol(@)andso on.

3.3.2 Eachemulationhas symbolsets

Yourlaserprinterworksby emulatingor followingcommandsdeveloped

originallyforotherprinters.Oneof theStarLaserPrinter8’sadvantagesis

thatitoffefiyouachoiceofseveralbuilt-insymbolsetsforeachfontineach

emulation.

TheactualFX-850,printerdoesnotusesymbolsetstoproduceinternational

accentedcharactemandspecialsymbols.Instead,theFX-8501etsyoudefine

whichcharactersyouwantwithparametersettings.

WhenyourStarLaserPnnter4 isemulatingtheHPLaserJetIIP,thenormal

default symbolset is the Roman-8set. Roman-8includesall the usual

keyboardcharacters,numbersandsymbolsinASCII,plusaccentedfo~ign-

languageCharactersand specialsymbols(butnothingfor linedrawing).

TheEpsonFX-850emulationismllyvematile. Itletsyouhavebothofthose

IBMsymbolsetsplusEpson’sownstandardsymbolset.ThisEpsonsymbol

setisunusual:itcontainsbothuprightanditaliccharactersin the sameset.

You may also choosefrom symbolsets for all the countriesmentioned

above,plusa seconduniqueset foreachof Denmarkand Spain.

3.3.3 Defaultfontattributes

Whenyoupoweronyourprinterandchooseanemulation,theinternalfonts

startoffwithdefaultattributeswhichyoucanchangeasneeded.Thedefault

symbolsetsdependon the emulation:in LaserJetIIP modethe defaultis

Roman-8,andin EpsonEX-800modeit’sEpsonStd USA.