Star Micronics SB-10 user manual LETTER-QUALITY LQ Mode, Codes for double-strike Printing

nTHE LETTER-QUALITY (LQ) MODE

Although DQ is the original factory default setting, you can change the default to the Letter-Quality (LQ) mode either by turning OFF DIP switch 1-5 (turn this back ON to reactivate DQ) or by entering the codes through your word processing program (see the “Draft- Quality Mode” later in this section). But before you begin exper- imenting in DQ, let’s take a look at the options you have in the let- ter-quality mode.

Double-Strike	printing				-
Whenever you want to make a word or phrase stand out in text,
a good way do it is with the double-strike feature. When you activate
double-strike	printing, your printer	does exactly that: it prints	each		-
character twice. The example below		shows how double-striking	can	-	-

set off your text from normal LQ printing.

THIS LINE IS LETTER QUALITY,

AND DOUBLE-STRIKE PRINTING.

NOW, TURN TO NORMAL PRINTING.

Figure 4-2. An example of double-strike printing.

Of course, when you begin double-strike printing, everything you print will be double-struck until you turn this feature off-so you’ll need the codes for how to activate double-striking as well as how to cancel it. Here they are:

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Table 4-l.		The codes for double-strike				printing.			-
FUNCTION			ESCAPE		DECIMAL		HEXADECIMAL
			CODE		CODE		CODE
Activate
Double-Strike			<ESC>	G	27 71		lB47		-
Cancel									-
Double-Strike			<ESC>	H	27 72		lB48		-
Emphasized		printing
Another		effective	method	to	make a	portion	of text stand out		--
against the rest is with the “Emphasized” print feature. To get em-
phasized	print, your		printer	prints a line		once,	shifts the	carriage	--
about 1/120th of an inch, and prints the line again. Because em-
phasized	print has a “double image”, it really calls attention							to itself.	-

THIS LINE IS LETTER QUALITY,

AND EMPHASIZED PRINTING.

NOW, TURN TO NORMAL PRINTING.

Figure 4-3. An example of emphasized print.

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