Star Micronics NP-IO manual Here’s what you should get from this program

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220 LPRINT "This is EXPANDED PICA."

230 LPRINT CHR$(27);"WO"

240END

Here’s what you should get from this program:

Thislineis CONDENSEDELITEpitch.

This line is CONDENSEDPICA pitch.

n Proportional printing

Have you ever looked closely at the printing in books and magazines? Doesn’t it look nice? The main reason is that each character is given an amount of space proportional to its actual width. A typewriter (and most printers), on the other hand, give every character the same amount of space, no matter how wide it is. (Pica pitch, for example, gives a “w” and an “i” l/10 of an inch each. Looking at these letters you see that a “w” is two or three times as wide as an “i”.)

Well, you too can enjoy professional-looking proportional printing. You can turn proportional printing on and off with the following commands.

Try this program to see how the proportional spacing works.

10 ' Demo of proportional printing

20 LPRINT CHR$(27);"M";

30 LPRINT "This line is NORMAL ELITE printing."