Epson LX-90TM Page Formatting, NEW, Margins, 18 LPRINT CHR$(27);"1";CHR$(5);, 20 LPRINT CHR$(27);"Q";CHR$(70);

Chapter 6

Page Formatting

Although the LX-90 printer has many sophisticated commands to set margins, line spacing, and horizontal and vertical tabs, this chapter won’t take up your time with extensive discussions of these because most are taken care of by applications programs. Instead, this chapter describes a few commands that the average user might need. For more information, see Appendixes B and C, where all the commands are listed and described.

Margins

The LX-90 allows you to set the left and right margins with simple ESCape sequences. The left margin command is ESCape "I" followed by the number of the column you choose for the left margin. The right margin command is ESCape “Q” followed by the column number of the right margin you want. For the left margin command, be sure to use a lowercase letter 1, not the numeral one.

If your word processing program does not allow you to change the margins, you can send margin commands to your LX-90 with BASIC or another programming language before you print your documents. For example, if you prefer wider margins than your word processing program gives you, run the following BASIC program before print- ing. This program gives you a left margin location of 5 and a right margin location of 70, but you can use any numbers you prefer for the margin commands.

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18 LPRINT CHR$(27);"1";CHR$(5);20 LPRINT CHR$(27);"Q";CHR$(70);

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