Lexmark 249X Manuale Utente

Section 1: Introduction

To run the printer test, follow these steps:

Make sure the paper and ribbon are installed.

Turn the printer Off.

Press Line Feed while you turn the printer On.

After a few seconds, release Line Feed.

To stop or interrupt the printer test:

Press Start/Stop. The test stops after a complete line of characters has 
printed.

Press Start/Stop to continue the printer test.

Examples in this manual have been formatted to be processed by a simple 
BASIC program. The BASIC program reads an input file and writes data to an 
output file. Printer commands may be entered into the input file in a 
hexadecimal format and enclosed with opening and closing delimiters.

The opening delimiter is a less-than symbol, ’<’, followed by an ’x’. The ’x’ may 
be either upper or lower case. The closing delimiter is a greater-than symbol, 
’>’.

Within the delimiters, hexadecimal data must be presented in two-digit pairs. 
White space, blanks, carriage returns and line feeds may be used between the 
pairs. In addition, a comment may be added to the end of a line by using a 
minus sign, ’-’, at the start of the comment. All data after a minus sign is ignored 
until a carriage return or line feed is encountered.

The example format used in this book is shown below:

All of the examples use this encoding method and have been tested using the 
following BASIC program:

1000 INPUT "Enter file name to be printed"; FILENAME$

1010 OPEN FILENAME$ FOR INPUT AS #1

1020 OPEN "prtrout.bin" FOR OUTPUT AS #2

1030 WHILE EOF(1) = 0

1040   I$ = INPUT$(1, #1)

<x

  1B36

- select character set 2

   1B5B0400000001B5      

- select code page 437

  1B5B640100A0

- set print quality to letter quality

   1B5B4905000055007801

- set font global to Courier 12

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