Enhancing Your Printing

For example, to print a title you may want to use double-wide 12 cpi characters and print them in double-strike mode. You would add three decimal numbers together to calculate the value of n.

12 cpi

1

Double-strike

16

Double-wide

32

 

 

n =

49

After calculating the value of n, you use the Master Select command to send the value to the printer.

ASCII

:ESC

!

n

Decimal

:27

33

49

Hexadecimal

: 1B

21

31

 

 

 

 

The font must be set separately by using the ESC x and ESC k commands. The draft font printing speed must be set using DIP switch 1-5(see the section on setting the DIP switches in Chapter 3).

There are two more things to consider when using the Master Select command:

•Master Select cancels any of the listed features that you do not set. For example, if you have already set 12 cpi character spacing, and you use Master Select to set emphasized double- strike printing, the character spacing is reset to 10 cpi.

•Only 10 cpi, underline, and double-wide can be used with high-speed draft printing.

For more information on sending ESCape codes to your printer, see Chapter 9.

4-8 Software and Graphics