TROY Group 2300 User Manual

 

 

Font DIMM Printer and Font DIMM Kit User’s Guide -- Document #50-70382-001  Rev. G

 

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Each character or symbol in a font set corresponds to a specific ASCII (American Standard Code for Information 
Interchange) number (e.g., the capital letter “A” = ASCII number 65).  Pressing a key on your computer 
keyboard automatically generates the ASCII number (32 through 127) associated with the character or symbol 
displayed on the key.   Likewise, any character or symbol not represented on your computer keyboard (ASCII 
numbers above 127) can be accessed by manually entering the associated ASCII number using the numeric 
keypad. 

 

The fonts provided on the TROY Font DIMM Printer and Font DIMM Kit CD have each of the characters and 
symbols in each font set (shown on the following pages) “mapped” (associated) to standard computer keyboard 
characters using the corresponding ASCII number for each character and symbol on the keyboard. 

 

For example, the transit symbol (one of the industry-standard symbols used in a MICR line at the bottom of a 
check) contained in the TROY E-13B MICR character table (shown on page 9) does not exist on a standard 
computer keyboard but has been “mapped” to the standard ASCII keyboard capital letter “A”, designated as 
ASCII number 65. 

 

Therefore, after loading and then selecting the TROY E-13B MICR Font, typing the capital letter “A” on your 
computer keyboard will produce the MICR transit symbol instead of the capital letter “A”.  The TROY E-13B 
character table (shown on page 9) associates the transit symbol with ASCII number 65 (the same ASCII number 
used for the capital letter “A” if you had selected a standard ASCII font set instead of the TROY E-13B MICR 
font set).