Olivetti ARCHIMEDIES JP101 User's Manual
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1. 40 PRINT 60 10 15 40 47 50 VDUI1 27 1 90 60 Z 0 70 REPEAT 80 PRINT Z 90 VDUI 11 100 Z Z 1 110 UNTIL Z 6 120 VDU1 12 130 VDU3 15 Vertical Tab VDU1 11 Prints contents of buffer up to tab code then performs paper skip to next vertical tab stop as defined by a Vertical Tabulation Program If there is no vertical tab stop defined then the printer performs one line feed 16 Paper Skip VDUI1 12 Performs paper feed to first print line of next page 17 Relative Vertical Form Skip VDUI1 27 1 73 1 1 1 j 1 k where i 48 x j 48 y k 48 z Performs a paper skip of xyz line feeds where xyz is less than 255 For example to obtain 100 line feeds use VDU1 27 1 73 1 49 1 28 1 48 18 Line Feed VDUI1 10 Performs a single line feed Support Group Application Note No 002 Issue 5 Support Group Application Note No 002 Issue 1 16th June 1992 19 Carriage Return VDUI1 13 Performs a single line feed 20 Audible Alarm vVDU1 7 Activates audible alarm lasting about 300msec 21 Clear Printer Buffer VDUI1 127 Clears print buffer and resets print head Does not affect tab programs etc 22 Plotter Programming Although it is possible to program graphics dump routines in BASIC the result would be very slow due to the large amount of information that must be processed Any routine of this type should therefore be written in machine code Such a Printer Dump Routine is available from Acorn for the J2. 16th January 1992 Support Group Application Note a Number 002 Acorn wv Issue 1 Author Using the Olivetti JP101 printer Applicable Related Hardware Application Electron Notes BBC B BBC B Master 128 Master Compact Copyright Acorn Computer Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this leaflet is true and correct at the time of printing However the products described in this leaflet are subject to continuous Support Group development and improvements and Acorn Computers Limited reserves the right to change oc fis its specifications at any time Acorn Computers Limited cannot accept liability for any loss Acom Computer s Limited or damage arising from the use of any information or particulars in this leaflet ACORN Acorn House ECONET and ARCHIMEDES are trademarks of Acorn Computers Limited ae Vision Park Histon Cambridge CB44AE Support Group Application Note No 002 Issue 1 16th June 1992 Using the Acorn JP101 Spark Jet Printer Apart from being a remarkably quiet and fast home computer printer the JP101 Spark Jet Printer has many special features which are simple to use and can improve the presentation of your printouts Among these features are nine different national character sets double width printing double height printing and horizontal and vertical tabulation functions The printer may be controlled from either a program or from the keyboard using VDU commands
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4. anual chapter 6 Given below is a summary of the VDU commands you should use to obtain various effects on the JP101 printer Note that before sending any VDU commands to the printer is possible the printer must be enabled using a VDU2 see example programs in 12 and 14 below 1 Double Width Characters On VDU1 27 1 51 This command turns double width printing on until it is turned off again 2 Double Width Characters Off VDU1 27 1 52 This command turns off double width printing 3 Double Height Characters On VDU1 27 1 39 This command turns on double height printing It may also be used in conjunction with 1 to obtain double height double width characters Support Group Application Note No 002 Issue 2 Support Group Application Note No 002 Issue 1 16th June 1992 4 Double Height Characters Off VDU1 27 1 37 This command turns off double height printing 5 Underlining VDU1 27 1 42 1 48 normal underlining VDU1 27 1 42 1 49 double underlining VDU1 27 1 42 1 50 dotted underlining These commands turn on the appropriate style of underlining which remains in operation until cancelled 6 Underlining Off VDUI1 27 1 43 Turns underlining off 7 Horizontal Character Spacing VDU1 27 1 60 10 characters per inch VDU1 27 1 61 12 characters per inch VDU1 27 1 62 18 characters per inch These commands select the number of characters printed per inch horizontally The d
5. efault value on power up or general reset is 10 cpi 8 Vertical Line Spacing VDU1 27 1 69 6 lines per inch VDU1 27 1 70 8 lines per inch These commands set the number of line feeds per inch to the chosen value 9 Variable Vertical Line Spacing VDU1 27 1 38 1 n Sets line spacing to a value between 1 12 inch and 9 12 inch in increments of 1 12 inch The value n is 48 the number of increments For example if the desired line spacing was 5 12 inch then n would be 48 5 53 and the complete command would be VDU1 27 1 38 1 53 10 General Reset VDUI1 27 1 48 Clears the print buffer the horizontal and vertical program settings the pitch and line spacings etc Support Group Application Note No 002 Issue 3 Support Group Application Note No 002 Issue 1 16th June 1992 11 Alternative National Character Sets VDU1 27 1 91 1 48 1 51 1 48 German VDU1 27 1 91 1 48 1 52 1 48 Spanish VDUI1 27 1 91 1 48 1 53 1 48 Danish VDUI1 27 1 91 1 48 1 54 1 48 French VDU1 27 1 91 1 48 1 55 1 48 Italian VDUI1 27 1 91 1 48 1 56 1 48 Swedish Finnish VDUI1 27 1 91 1 48 1 57 1 48 British VDU1 27 1 91 1 48 1 58 1 48 USA ASCID VDU1 27 1 91 1 48 1 59 1 48 Norwegian Selects one of the alternative national character sets The default is that set on the DIP switches on the PCB Details of the special characters are given in the
6. or by typing control characters on the keyboard For example we can turn the printer on or off from the keyboard or from a BASIC program by typing VDU or VDU3 This may also be done from the keyboard by typing CTRL B or CTRL C which is easier to type When we wish the printer to perform a more complicated task such as printing characters double width or automatically tabulating data as it prints it out then a sequence of commands must be sent to the printer to tell it how it must print any future characters the computer sends it We wish to send these characters to the printer only and this may be done using VDU1 which sends the next character to the printer only In order that the printer should recognise characters sent to it by the computer as part of a command sequence rather than as characters to be printed they are preceded by an ESC character This has the ASCII code number 27 so to send the ESC character to the printer only we use the command VDU1 27 VDU commands may be strung together so we may send sequences of characters more easily For example to tell the printer that we wish it to print any further characters we send it as double width characters we must send it the sequence ESC 3 To do this we use VDU1 27 1 51 51 is the ASCII code for the character 3 For more information about ASCII codes or VDU commands see your computer s user guide For more information about the operating commands of the JP101 printer see the printer m
7. printer manual on page 5 12 12 Programmed Horizontal Tabulation VDU 27 1 80 Format Information VDUI1 27 1 90 This is a complicated command to use The program below demonstrates the use of this command to print numbers 0 to 100 in a field width of 60 characters at tab stops of 0 10 15 40 47 characters 10 0 Turn off screen formatting 20 VDU2 Turn on output to printer 30 VDU1 27 1 80 40 PRINT 60 10 15 40 47 50 VDUI1 27 1 90 60 Z 0 70 REPEAT 80 PRINT Z 90 VDUI1 9 100 Z Z 1 110 UNTIL Z 101 120 VDU1 12 130 VDU3 13 Horizontal Tab VDU1 9 Tell printer horizontal tabulation program starts here Send format information line width followed by positions of tab stops Tell printer horizontal tabulation program stops here For Z 0 to 100 print Z Horizontal tab to next tab stop Page eject Turn off output to printer Automatically inserts enough spaces as needed to reach the next horizontal tab stop as set by 12 above If no Horizontal Tabulation Program is set then one space is inserted Support Group Application Note No 002 Issue 4 Support Group Application Note No 002 Issue 1 16th June 1992 14 Programmed Vertical Tabulation VDUI1 27 1 81 format information VDUI1 27 1 90 This is the vertical version of 12 above See 12 for more information The following program demonstrates printing as programmed vertical tab stops 10 0 20 VDU2 30 VDUI 27 1 81
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