Commodore MPS 1000 Dot Matrix Printer User's Manual PDF (EN)

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Copyright © 1985 by Commodore Elecrronics Limited Copyright © 1984 by Seiko Epson Corporation, Nagano , Japan All rights reserved This manual contains copyrighted and proprietary information. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior written permission of Commodore Electronics Limited. Commodore BASIC Copyright © 1985 by Commodore Elecrronics Limited All rights reserved Copyright © 1977 by Microsoft Corp. All rights reserved Centronics® is a registered rrademark of Dara Computer Corporarion.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRODUCTION ................ .. .................. 1 CHAPTER 1, Setting Up Your MPS 1000 Printer .. ... ........ 5 Unpacking your printer ............................. 5 Getting your primer ready to use ................ .. . .. 6 Using the tractor unit ............................. 11 The control panel ................................ 16 Connecting the MPS 1000 to your computer . ........... 18 The DIP switches ........ . . . ...... ... ............. 22 Primer maintenance .................... . ........ . 24 CHAPTER 2, Elements of Dot Matrix Printing ............. 2 5 The prim head . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. .... . .. . . . ...

2 5 Bidirectional printing ............................. 26 Changing pitches ....... ... ... .. ......... . ..... . . 26 Near Letter Quality (NLQ) mode .................... 28 CHAPTER 3, Printer Control Codes .............. . ...... 31 PETASCII and IBM Extension ASCII codes ............ 31 Secondary addresses and ESCape codes ................ 33 Programming languages ........................... 34 CHAPTER 4, Commodore Print Mode ... ....... ... .. .. .. 3 5 Demonstration programs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 5 The MPS 1000 and Commodore BASIC ............... 36 Control codes for printing text .......................

3 7 Advanced control with secondary address ............. .45 CHAPTER 5, IBM® Print Mode . ...... . ................. 59 Demonstration programs .............. . ............ 59 Printing text .................................... 60 ESCape codes ................................... 63 Page formatting in IBM mode ...................... 68 111

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