Star Micronics 4111 manual Many ways to move, Lines per inch

4.4MOVING THE PRINT POSITION

4.4.1Many ways to move

The LaserPrinter 4111provides excellent control over the print position — where you poise your laser “pen”. Horizontally, you can send backspace and carriage return commands. Vertically, you can move the print position down the page by printing so many lines per inch, or by sending line-feed and half line-feed commands. You can move horizontally or vertically to tab settings as well.

Those aren’t all. You can also tell the Star LaserPrinter 4111to move its print position, either vertically or horizontally, in increments of:

1/10, 1/12 or 3/50 inch (pitch settings),

1/48 or 1/120 inch (line or column definitions), 1/300 inch (dots),

1/720 inch (tenths of a point).

All these commands are described below.

One hint about moving the print position: you can confuse yourself trying to use more than two different units during the same session. So decide beforehand how precise you need to be in moving the print position, not forgetting any graphics you want to include. Then stick to the unit(s) you choose.

4.4.2Lines per inch

This vertical line-spacing command gives you more options than just the six or eight lines per inch of early printers. Use this command to set how many lines you want in each vertical inch of your page:

<ESC> &/n D

For ~ you enter the number of lines per inch you want — any of: 1,2,3,4, 6,8, 12, 16,24 or 48. If you enter a number other than these the printer will ignore the command.

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