Enhancing Your Printing

Selecting typestyles with Master Select

Your printer has a special ESCape code called Master Select that allows you to choose many possible combinations of eight different printing modes:

0

10

cpi

•

double-strike

0

12

cpi

•

double-wide

•

condensed

0 italics

•

emphasized

•

underline

The format of the Master Select code is shown below:

ASCII

:ESC

!

n

Decimal

: 27

33

n

Hexadecimal

: 1B

21

n

 

 

 

 

The variable n is a number that identifies the desired mode or combination of modes. To find the value of n, refer to the table below and add up either the decimal or hexadecimal numbers for the features you want to combine.

 

Feature

 

Dec.

 

Hex.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

10 cpi

 

0

00

 

12 cpi

 

1

01

 

condensed

 

4

04

 

emphasized

 

8

08

 

double-strike

 

16

 

1O

 

double-wide

 

32

20

 

italics

 

64

40

 

underline

 

128

80

 

 

 

 

 

 

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