APPLICATION NOTE #157 USING THE LIPS 10 LASER PRINTER WITH XYWRITE III PLUS Rev. 01 RELATED FILES: 3LIPS10.PRN The Laser Image Printing System (LIPS 10 printer), a product of C.Itoh CIE Terminals, is a high-speed laser printer that emulates the Diablo 630 daisy wheel, the Epson FX-80 dot matrix, and the Hewlett-Packard LaserJet/ LaserJet+ printers. It provides nine internal fonts, including one landscape font. This application note includes information on the XyWrite printer file, combining portrait and landscape modes, and the internal symbol set. XYWRITE PRINTER FILE The printer file for the LIPS 10 printer is 3LIPS10.PRN. This printer file, which is available from XYQUEST's Technical Support department, uses the LIPS command language and Diablo 630 emulation for the underline and the bold attributes. The printer file, which supports all the internal fonts, contains nine PT (Print Type) tables: PT No. Print Type 1 COURIER, 12-point, 10 cpi (portrait) 2 ELITE, 10-point, 12 cpi (portrait) 3 PRO, 10-point Roman proportional (portrait) 4 EDP, 6-point, 16.67 cpi (portrait) 5 10EXPANDED, 10-point, 6 cpi (portrait) 6 12EXPANDED, 12-point, 5 cpi (portrait) 7 COMPRESSED, 10-point, 17.16 cpi (portrait) 8 COMPRESSED/EXPANDED, 10-point 8.5 cpi (portrait) 9 L-COURIER, 12-point, 10 cpi (landscape) COMBINING PORTRAIT AND LANDSCAPE MODES In portrait printing, words are printed across the 8-1/2-inch dimension of the page. In landscape printing, words are printed across the 11-inch dimension of the page. The C.Itoh LIPS 10 laser printer allows portrait and landscape printing on the same page. When you switch from one mode to another on the same page, the printing position switches also. It is as if you held a pen above the sheet of paper and rotated the paper 90 degrees to the right. If you are on the fifth line of the page in portrait orientation and issue the command to switch to landscape, you will be on the fifth line of the page in landscape orientation. This means that landscape printing does not begin in the exact position where portrait printing left off, but in the same relative position with the paper rotated 90 degrees to the right. Returning to portrait mode is similar: it is as if the paper rotated 90 degrees to the left. To use landscape mode and portrait mode on the same page, follow the instructions below. 1. Enter the portrait text. 2. Change to the landscape Courier font. Type: F5pt 9 3. Type in the landscape text. 4. Enter a PT command for a portrait font. For example: Type: F5pt 1 SYMBOL SET Most of the fonts provided with the LIPS10 printer support ASCII characters 32-126. However, the Courier and Land~scape Courier fonts support an extended character set, which includes many foreign characters that are not part of the ASCII character set. The printer file 3LIPS10.PRN includes a substitution table (SU:SUB) that allows you to print the non-ASCII characters in the symbol set. In this substitution table, upper ASCII characters are used to represent the non-ASCII characters. To print one of the symbols, you enter its ASCII representation; when you TYPE the document, XyWrite substitutes the special symbol for the ASCII character in the text. For example, one of the characters supported by the Courier and Landscape Courier fonts is the international currency symbol. You can't display that symbol on the screen, but it is represented by ASCII character 191 ({ASC-191}). To print the international currency symbol: 1. Move the cursor to where you want the character. 2. Enter ASCII character 191. Type: Alt-Shift-191 Result: The character {ASC-191} is displayed on the screen. 3. Send the document to the printer. Type: F5type Result: The currency symbol is printed in your document where you typed ASCII 191. Note More Information. For more information on printer files in general, refer to Chapter 6 of the XyWrite III Plus Reference Guide.