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- There have been a lot of questions about how to set up a custom printer driver
- for 1ST_Word and I will try to answer that for you here. The first thing you
- must remember is that the file 1ST_PRNT.DOT MUST be in the root directory of
- the disk drive as that is the configuration data for your printer. To set it
- up you follow these directions:
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- 1. Boot 1ST WORD
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- 2. Open the PRINTER folder and open the appropriate file with the .HEX
- extender which is closest to your type of printer. (I'll use mine as an
- example, Epson FX100 so I loaded the FX80 file)
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- 3. Some of the features of the Epson are "commented" out by being preceded
- with an *. If what you want is there just delete the *. If not you may be
- able to implement it by the following.
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- 4. Look in your printer manual or the hex codes of the capability you want.
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- 5. Pick a character in the character set before hex 20, like the LCD numbers in
- the char. table. Insert in here the Hex codes you want such as, for instance,
- if you want to implement proportional spacing on the Epson you could define
- the LCD 0 as "start prop. spacing" by typing in the following
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- 10, 1B, 70, 31 * LCD 0 = PROPORTIONAL SPACING/start
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- (The 10 is already there but the commas and spaces between hex numbers
- must be used. To define LCD 1 as "end prop. spacing" type this:
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- 11, 1B, 70, 30, * LCD 1 = END PROPORTIONA SPACIND/end
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- The stuff after the * is just comment so you can print it out and remember
- what you defined them as.
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- 6. After you have defined what you want save the file using the "save as"
- option from the file menu. (To be sure you are handling the right
- source file go to the top of the file just below where it says "Name of
- printer" and type in the name of your printer.)
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- 7. Then double click on the INSTALL.PRG file. When it runs, give it the name
- of your configuration file (the name you saved it under). Then it will
- make a new 1ST_WORD.DOT file in the PRINTER folder.
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- 8. Now you have to copy that file out to the root directory by opening the
- PRINTER file in one window and the regular disk directory in another and
- dragging it from the folder to the other window.
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- 9. If you followed these steps carefully, you should now be able to use prop.
- spacing by placing the cursor where you want it to start, going
- to the on screen char. table, clicking the LCD 0, where you want to start,
- and then moving cursor to where you want to end it and then clicking on the
- LCD1.
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- I have implemented Proportional, double strike and elongated in this way. You
- should be aware that this may conflict with future updates with new features
- which might use these characters in the font table.
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