
1.3 Firmware Specifications
This section provides detailed information about FX-2170 firmware.
1.3.1 Control Codes and Fonts
Control codes ESC/P and IBM 2380/2381 plus emulations.
Typefaces Bitmap fonts
EPSON Draft 10 cpi, 12 cpi, 15 cpi
EPSON Roman 10 cpi, 12 cpi, 15 cpi, proportional
EPSON Sans Serif 10 cpi, 12 cpi, 15 cpi, proportional
Bar code fonts
EAN-13, EAN-8, Interleaved 2 of 5, UPC-A, UPC-E, Code 39
Code 128, POSTNET
International character sets 13 countries
U.S.A., France, Germany, U.K., Denmark 1, Sweden, Italy,
Spain 1, Japan, Norway, Denmark2, Spain2, Latin America
Character tables The standard version has 11 character tables and the NLSP version has 19
character tables, as shown in the following table.
Table 1-30 Character Tables
Version Character Tables
Standard Version
Italic PC-437
(U.S., Standard
Europe)
PC-850 (Multilingual)
PC-860
(Portuguese)
PC-861
(Icelandic)
PC- 863
(Canadian-French)
PC-865 (Nordic) Abicomp BRASCII
Roman 8 ISO Latin 1
NLSP Version
Italic PC- 437
(US, Standard Europe)
PC-850 (Multilingual)
PC-437 Greek PC-852 (East Europe) PC-853 (Turkish)
PC-855 (Cyrillic) PC-857 (Turkish) PC-866 (Russian)
PC-869 (Greek) MAZOWAI (Poland) Code MJK (CSFR)
ISO 8859-7
(Latin/Greek)
ISO Latin 1T (Turkish) Bulgaria (Bulgarian)
Estonia (Estonia) PC-744
(LST 1283:1993)
ISO Latin 2
PC-866 LAT (Latvia)
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