If you try to combine proportional with condensed, proportional will override condensed, no matter which you choose first. When you have selected condensed and then press the proportional button, it beeps three times to tell you that it is overriding condensed. (The condensed button light goes off also.)
If you have selected proportional and then press the condensed button, it beeps three times to tell you that you cannot select condensed without changing to pica or elite first.
How to Use SelecType
Now you can try the various SelecType possibilities by printing a short sample document created with an application program. Create a sample and then perform the following two steps.
1.Press the button or buttons for the print styles that you want to use. Each button will confirm your selection by beeping and lighting up.
2.Print the document using your application program’s print command.
If you print a short sample two or three times using different SelecType settings, you will quickly see how easy it is to use SelecType because the lighted buttons tell you what mode the printer is using at any time.
lf SelecType Does Not Work
Some application programs are designed to control all typestyle functions. Before each printing operation, these programs cancel all previous typestyle settings by sending a signal (INIT) or by sending specific control codes to cancel certain typestyles. These signals or control codes may cancel your SelecType settings.
One reset signal, however, does not affect your SelecType settings. This is the ESC @ command.
You can see whether your program is changing your settings by watching the buttons when printing starts. If the lights change, the program is controlling the typestyles.
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