Epson LQ-800 Half-speedMode, Printing to the End of the Page

The standard line spacing is the only one you need for almost all printing of text, but in some cases you may want to increase or decrease the space between lines. The LQ has several commands to do this, one of which specifies the line spacing in 180ths of an inch. If you need to make such fine adjustments in the line spacing, see Appendix I for the proper commands. In Chapter 6 you’ll see how useful changes in line spacing can be for dot graphics.

Half-speed Mode

When quiet is more important than speed, you can use ESCape “s” to cut the printing speed in half. ESCape “s1” turns the half-speed mode on, and ESCape “s0” turns it off. Note that you use a lowercase s, not a capital S for this code.

Printing to the End of the Page

In order to protect the print head and platen, the LQ stops printing three lines from the end of the paper. This means that when you are printing on single sheets, you cannot use the last three lines of the page, but that is usually reserved for the bottom margin anyway.

5-20