Star Micronics SB-10 Codes for emphasized printing, Underlining Text, Codes for underlining text

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Like most of the print features, the emphasized mode will-once

activated-remain on until you turn it off. Here are the codes:

Table 4-2. The codes for emphasized printing.

FUNCTION	ESCAPE		DECIMAL		HEXADECIMAL
	CODE		CODE		CODE
Activate
Emphasized	<ESC>	E	27	69	1B	45
Print
Cancel
Emphasized	<ESC>	F	27	70	1B	46
Print
Underlining	text

The underlining feature offers you a third, more subtle way to accent your text:

THIS IS UNDERLINED LQ PRINTING.

Figure 4-4. An example of underlined text.

Here are the commands you’ll need to start and stop the under- lining feature:

Table 4-3. The codes for underlining text.

FUNCTION	ESCAPE			DECIMAL		HEXADECIMAL
	CODE			CODE		CODE
Activate
Underlining	<ESC>	-	1	27 45	1	lB2DOl
Cancel
Underlining	<ESC>	-	0	2745	0	lB2DOO

Proportional printing

When the printer is in the LQ mode, it is able to print text with proportional spacing (yielding approximately 80 characters per inch). This means that each character gets precisely the amount of space it needs. For example, the letter “m” is given twice the amount of space used for the “i”, since it’s twice as wide.

Proportional spacing is used in newspapers, magazines and many books because it gives a polished appearance to the finished page.

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