Microsoft KB Archive/21028

Printing Lower ASCII Characters on HP Y Cartridge

PSS ID Number: Q21028 Article last modified on 11-02-1994

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The Hewlett-Packard Y cartridge has a symbol set, the PC Extension, that contains the ASCII printable characters from decimal 1-31. However, the characters in the symbol set are mapped from decimal 33-63, which means that ASCII decimal 1 corresponds to PC Extension decimal 33; ASCII decimal 2 corresponds to PC Extension decimal 34; and ASCII decimal 31 corresponds to PC Extension decimal 63.

To print these symbols with Word, the driver HPPCCOUR.PRD must be modified. Switch the default symbol set for either the Courier or Lineprinter font from PC Set 1 to PC Extension by changing the appropriate portion of the control sequence at beginmod in the Font Description Table from “8Q” to “9Q”. If you want to use both symbol sets in the same driver, create another Font Description Table for the font that uses the PC Extension symbol set. For further details, refer to the “Printer Information for Microsoft Word” manual’s section on using the MAKEPRD utility to modify printer drivers.

To access the lower ASCII symbols in Word, use the ALT key in combination with the decimal number of the symbol on the numeric keypad of the keyboard. For example, to get ASCII decimal 31, type ALT+63.

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