To see an example of emphasized, type and run the following pro- gram.

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10 LPRINT "This is standard printing."20 LPRINT CHR$(27)"E";30 LPRINT "This is emphasized printing."100 LPRINT CHR$(27)"F"

T h i s i s s t a n d a r d p r i n t i n g .

This is emphasized p r i n t i n g .

In Epson mode, emphasized works only in draft pica and NLQ modes; in IBM Proprinter mode, it also works in elite.

You do sacrifice some print speed with emphasized, because the print head slows down and prints twice as many dots, but there is a noticeable improvement in print quality. You may want to use emphasized instead of the NLQ mode for some purposes because emphasized printing is faster than NLQ printing. The code to turn off emphasized is ESCape “F”.

Double-strike

The other bold mode is double-strike. For this mode the FX-286 prints each line, then moves the paper up slightly and prints the line again. Each dot is printed twice, with the second one slightly below the first as you can see if you run this program, which uses ESCape “G” to turn on double-strike. In the IBM Proprinter mode, ESCape “G” produces NLQ rather than double-strike when used with either the pica or elite widths. With all other modes and widths, ESCape “G” produces double-strike.

10 LPRINT "This is standard printing."

20 LPRINT CHR$(27)"G";30 LPRINT "This is double-strike printing."100 LPRINT CHR$(27)"H"

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i s s t a n d a r d p r i n t i n g .

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i s d o u b l e - s t r i k e p r i n t i n g .

Unlike emphasized, double-strike combines with many modes (but not with NLQ) because it does not overlap dots horizontally. Since

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