Enhancing Your Printing

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

12 cpi

1

Double-strike

16

Double-width

32

 

n =

49

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

ASCII code:

ESC

!

1

Decimal:

27

33

49

Hexadecimal:

1B

21

31

The print quality and font must be set separately, either using SelecType or the ESC x and ESC k commands. 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 try to set. For example, if you have already set a character width other than 10 cpi, and you use Master Select to set emphasized double-strike, the character width is reset to 10 cpi.

•Proportional overrides 10, 12, and 15 cpi.

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