Epson LQ-800 10 LPRINT CHR$(27)"N"CHR$(6);, The maximum right margins are shown in Table, fine feed, line space, Line spacing, Skip-over-perforation

The maximum right margins are shown in Table 5-5.

Table 5-5. Maximum right margin settingsSkip-over-perforation

If you are using continuous-feed paper for printing program listings or other material not controlled by an applications program, you may find that the LQ prints right over the perforations between pages. The LQ has an ESCape code to prevent this: the ESCape “N” command. You send ESCape “N" followed by the number of lines you want the LQ to skip at the bottom of a page. For example, in BASIC the following line will make the LQ skip six lines after each 60 lines if your printer is set for 11-inch paper:

10 LPRINT CHR$(27)"N"CHR$(6);

Since an 11-inch page is 66 lines, this will give you one inch of blank space at the bottom of each page. If you prefer to have half of the blank space at the top of the page and half at the bottom, simply set the top-of-page approximately three lines (½ of an inch) below the perforation. (See Chapter 3 if you need to refresh your memory on setting the top-of-page.)

Line spacing

Ordinarily you don’t have to worry about how the printer moves the paper so that it doesn’t print lines of text on top of each other; the LQ takes care of this without any special instructions. The line spacing on the LQ, however, can be changed with an ESCape code.

The movement of the paper between lines is called a fine feed and the distance the paper moves is called a line space. In ordinary printing the line spacing is 1/6 of an inch, which produces six lines of print per inch.

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