Selecting typestyles with Master Select

Your printer has a special command called Master Select that allows you to choose many possible combinations of nine printing enhancements. To send Master Select codes to the printer, you must first choose the combination of features you want.

Here are the features you can choose:

10cpi

12cpi proportional condensed emphasized double-strike double-wide italics underline

The format of the Master Select command is:

ASCII

ESC

!

n

Decimal

27

33

n

Hexadecimal

1B

21

n

To send the Master Select codes to your printer in a decimal format, you send the codes 27, 33, and then whatever value you choose for the variable n.