Star Micronics LPRINTCHR$14EXPANDEDELITE Pitch, Print Commands, Making Delta print darker

32 Delta User’s Manual

When you turn on expanded print with (ESC) “W” CHR$(l) it stays on until you turn it off with (ESC) “W” CHR$(O). That’s what we added line 30 for.

		Table 3-2
	Expanded	print	commands		-.-
1 Function		1	Control code	I
I		I
One line	expanded		CHR$(14)
Expanded	ON		(ESC) “W” CHR$(l)		-
ExDanded	OFF		‘,ESC) “W” CHR$fOI
				-	-

By combining expanded print with the three pitches, Delta has six different character widths available.

Enter this program to see how the print pitches and expanded print can be combined:

18LPRINTCHR$(llt)"EXPANDEDPICA PITCH" 2@ LPRINTCHR$(27)"B" CHR$(2)

38LPRINTCHR$(14)"EXPANDEDELITE PITCH"

48LPRINTCHR$(27)"B" CHR$(j)

58LPRINTCHR$(14)"EXPANDEDCONDENSEDPITCH" 6@ LPRINTCHR$(27)"B" CHR$(l)

79LPRINT "NOW WE ARE BACK TO UNEXPANDEDPICA PRINTING"

Here’s what you should get from this program:

EXF19NREDELITE PITCH

EXPANDED CONDENSED PITCH

NOW WE ARE BACK TQ UNEXF’ANDED PICA PRINTING

Making Delta print darker

Delta has very good print density when it’s just printing regu- larly. But sometimes you may want something to stand out from the rest of the page. Delta provides two ways to do this: double- strike and emphasized print. Both of these go over the characters

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