Star Micronics Delta @ Lprint this is Elite Pitch Printing, Lprint Condensedis the Narrowestpitch

30 Delta User’s Manual

will investigate is changing the width of the characters that Delta prints.

Changing the print pitch

In “printer talk,” character width is called pitch. Normally, Delta prints 10 characters per inch. This is called pica pitch because it’s the same spacing as a standard pica typewriter.

Delta can also print 12 characters per inch. This is called elite pitch because it is the same spacing as an elite typewriter.

Condensed print is approximately 17 characters per inch (actually it’s 17.14 characters per inch). Condensed pitch allows you to get 136 columns of printing on an 8% inch page.

You tell Delta which pitch you want to use with the (ESC) “B” command. The table below shows the three options of this command.

	Table 3-l
	Print pitch	commands
Pitch	Characters/inch	Control code
Pica	10	(ESC)	“B” CHR$(l)
Elite	12	(ESC)	“B” CHR$(2)
Condensed	17	‘,ESC)	“B” CHR$(3)

Let’s see how these three pitches look. Try this program:

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18 LPRINTCHR$(27)"B" CHR$(2)

2@ LPRINT "THIS IS ELITE PITCH PRINTING"

30LPRINTCHR$(27)"B" CHR$(3)

40LPRINT "CONDENSEDIS THE NARROWESTPITCH"

50LPRINTCHR$(27)"B" CHR$(l)

60LPRINT "NOW WE ARE BACK TO PICA PITCH PRINTING"

When you run this program you should get this:

THIS IS ELITE PITCH F’HiNTING

CONDENSED IS THE NARROWEST PITCH

NOW WE ARE BACK TO FICA PITCH F’RINTING

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