Your Personal Guide - Epson FX-80 User Manual

For those users who are familiar with the MX series of printers,
Appendix G provides a summary of the differences between the FX-80
and the MX Graftrax Plus.
Most readers, however, will want to start with Chapter 1 and fol-
low the manual from start to finish.
Your Personal Guide
Think of the manual as your personal guide in your exploration of
the FX-80's many features.
It will teach you step by step how to operate the printer as you work
through examples on your computer. Along the way, you may stum-
ble across a few things that the BASIC language on your computer
system can't handle. We try to point these out for you and suggest
ways to work around them. You may want to dig a little deeper to find
a solution. In any case, you'll have a much greater appreciation for the
programming experts who solve these problems for us.
You'll find this manual to be a whole different breed of cat from the
straitlaced reference manuals of old. Sure, you'll find all the necessary
details organized in easy-to-use charts, tables, and appendixes for
ready reference. But this manual does more than just tell you the cor-
rect codes to use; it shows you how to use them in carefully selected
sample programs. These examples not only teach you how to operate
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