Italic printing

You can use italic characters for special emphasis or as an alternative typeface. Some software programs let you select italics for the entire document, but with software commands you can select italics for a single word or phrase.

Here is an example of italic printing:

This is NLQ printing.This is italicized NLQ printing.

Note: The printer command ESC 4 turns on the italic mode even if the current DIP switch setting is set to the Epson Extended Graphics character table instead of the italics character table. (See page 3-13 for more information on which character table to use.)

Underlining

The underline mode automatically underlines any piece of text. It underlines spaces, subscripts, and superscripts. (You can’t underline horizontal tabs, however.) Underlining is the only printing enhancement that can be combined with high-speed draft without reducing the printing speed. Although you can usually select underlining using your software program, you can also select it with a software command.

Superscripts and subscripts

Superscripts and subscripts can be used for printing footnote numbers and mathematical formulas. The following example combines underlining and subscripts in a mathematical formula.

a v e r a g e = ( a 1 + a 2 + - - - - - + a n )

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