Glossary

double-strike printing

A way of producing bolder characters. Each character is printed twice in a single pass of the print head: the second time, the dots are printed slightly below the original dots. Can only be used in draft mode.

draft

One of two print qualities available on your printer. Draft uses

aminimum number of dots per character for high-speed printing. See also Letter Quality.

emphasized printing

A way of producing darker characters. Each character of a line is printed in two passes of the print head; the second time, the dots are printed slightly to the right of the original dots.

EPSON Extended Graphics character table

A table containing international accented characters, Greek characters, and character graphics for printing lines, corners, and shaded areas.

ESC (escape)

A special control code used to begin most printer commands.

ESC/P

Abbreviation for EPSON Standard Code for Printers. This system of commands lets you perform software control of your printer from your computer. It is standard for all EPSON printers and supported by most applications software for personal computers.

font

A font is a style of type designated by a family name.

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