Enhancing Your Printing

For example, to print a title you may want to use double-wide 12 cpi characters and print them in double-strike mode. You would-add these three decimal numbers together to calculate the value of n.

l2 cpi

1’

.

.

Double-strike

16

 

 

Double-wide

32

 

 

 

-

 

 

 

n = 49

 

 

After calculating the value of n, you would use the Master Select command to send the value to the printer.

ASCII:

ESC

I

I

1

Decimal:

27

33

49

Hexadecimal:

1B

21

31

 

 

 

 

Print quality and font selection are not part of.Master Select and must be set separately, using the ESC x and ESC k commands. The draft font printing speed must be set using DIP switch 2-2.(See the section ‘on ‘setting DIP switches in Chapter 3.)

There are four more things to cons@er when using the Master Select command:

Master Select cancels any of th&list& f&u-es that you do not set. For example, if you have.,&eadjl W&2 cpi, and you try to use Master Select to set emph& ,+$&-strike only, the character spacing is reset to 10 &I.

Proportional spa% overrides 10 cpi,. 1 2 cpi, and condensed.

Only 10 cpi, under&pe, and double-i&de are available in high- speed draft mode.

When emphasized and condensed are selected, emphasized is ignored.

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