Chapter 4
Apex80 Printer Features
You can obtain many different printing effects with the Apex80 printer, from arranging the printout on the paper to giving extra emphasis to particular words and phrases. This chapter shows you the features you may want to select with your software. Once you have read about the features, you can find their commands in the Command Summary.
SelecType, as you know, controls the printing style of a whole document. Software commands, on the other hand, can change anything from a single character to the entire document.
Quality and FontsThe most fundamental changes you can make to printing on the Apex80 are in the print quality and NLQ fonts.
The Apex80 has two levels of print quality: draft and NLQ (Near Letter Quality). Draft printing is fast, making it ideal for drafts and other preliminary work. NLQ printing takes a little longer, but it produces more
The printout below shows the differences between draft, NLQ
Roman, and NLQ Sans Serif so that you can compare the different styles and densities:
Draft printing is extremely fast.
NLQ Roman is clear and typewriter-like.
N L Q S a n s S e r i f i s c r i s p a n d d i s t i n c t i v e .
The buttons on the control panel give you an easy way of changing the print quality and NLQ font, but if you prefer to print in NLQ Roman most of the time, you can select it with a DIP switch (see Appendix D). You can also choose the print quality and NLQ font with software commands.
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