84B. Character SetConfigurationinstalled, the printer still assumes that there is acolor ribbon installed. Therefore, the monochromeribbon is advanced in order for the printer to verifythat it is not printing on a yellow panel. In thisconfiguration, the printer always assumes that acolor ribbon is installed, even when printingmonochrome information.3. In configuration #2, when color pageinformation is sent to the printer it will printnormally. When monochrome page information issent to the printer, the printer will not move theribbon before printing, even if a color ribbon isinstalled. In this configuration, the printer alwaysassumes that a monochrome ribbon is installedwhen printing monochrome information. If youoften switch back and forth between color andmonochrome ribbons, be sure that switch #1 is inthe “down” or “on” position. This will savemonochrome ribbon when printing monochromeinformation.PrimeraPro’s built-in Letter Gothic 12 cpi characterset is used mainly for DOS-based printing. Defaultcharacter set is IBM’s Code Page 850 (sometimesreferred to as PC-850), which includes charactersfor most European languages. In Table A-2,different country character set selections are listed.A portion of the actual printout from PrimeraPro’sself test is illustrated in Table A-3. It lists allavailable resident bit-mapped characters alongwith specific characters for each country selection.
