Epson LX-90TM i s e, T h i s, T h i s i s, Expanded Mode, x p a n d e d, p r i n t i n g, Mode Combinations, 100 LPRINT CHR$(27);"@, 29 LPRINT CHR$(27) ; "W1";

Expanded Mode

Perhaps the most dramatic mode on the LX-90 is expanded. It produces extra-wide characters that are good for titles and headings. For this mode, the dot pattern of each character is expanded and twice as many dots are printed. You can see the difference between pica and expanded pica if you enter and run this program:

10 LPRINT "This is standard printing."

29 LPRINT CHR$(27) ; "W1";30 LPRINT "This is expanded."

100 LPRINT CHR$(27);"@"

T h i s i s s t a n d a r d

T h i s i s e

p r i n t i n g .

x p a n d e d

For this mode the letter W and the numeral one together turn the mode on and the letter W and the numeral zero together turn it off. Thus ESCape "Wl" turns on expanded and ESCape "WO" turns it off.

Those of you who are programmers may be interested in another form of expanded. In this alternate form, called one-line expanded, the printing is the same as that in the example but it is turned on by ASCII 14 and is turned off by a line feed, ASCII 20, or ESCape "WO".

Mode Combinations

You can also use control codes to combine modes. For example, you can make a title especially vivid by combining emphasized and expanded. In fact, you can combine nearly all of the print modes on the LX-90; your LX-90 printer can print such complicated combinations as double-strike emphasized expanded underlined subscript, although you may never want such a combination. The point is, how- ever, that the LX-90 has the ability to produce almost any combination you can think of; it’s up to you to decide which ones you want to use.

To see emphasized combined with expanded, change two lines in your previous program:

20 LPRINT CHR$ (27) ; "Wl" ; CHR$ (27) ; "E"; 30 LPRINT "Emphasized expanded"

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