Preface
The User’s Manual for the FX Series printers consists of two vol-
umes: Tutorial and Reference. This volume, the Tutorial, is arranged
in the following logical groupings:
Introduction (for everyone)
Programmer’s Easy Lesson (for experienced users)
Hardware description: Chapter 1
Software introduction: Chapter 2
Control of the way characters look: Chapters 3 to 6
Control of the way pages look: Chapters 7 to 9
Printer graphics: Chapters 10 to
14
User-defined characters: Chapters 15 and 16
Using everything together: Chapter 17
A complete table of contents for this volume is after this preface. For
your convenience, there is an index at the end of each volume cover-
ing the complete two-volume set. You can therefore find all the refer-
ences to any topic in either one.
Conventions Used in This Manual
We provide sample BASIC programs that allow you to see how
various commands control the printer’s capabilities. Frequently we
start with a few program lines and then make several changes and
additions to end up with a substantial program. We suggest that you
use your SAVE command after each change to prevent losing pro-
grams because of power fluctuations or other accidents. When you
can RUN a program, we show the results you should expect.
In our sample programs, we use Microsoft’” BASIC, which is
widely used in personal computers. Because there are several slightly
different versions of Microsoft BASIC and because your computer
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