Star Micronics 4111 manual Stroke weight

To select style for the secondary font,just reverse the parenthesis and use the same n numbers:

<ESC> )S n S

Remember that style is a relatively low-priority attribute. If a particular font satisfies all higher priority attributes but doesn’t come in the style you want, you’ll get that font without your style.

Stroke weight

The weight of a font defines how lightly or boldly it prints.

You can be flexible about stroke weight. The following command gives you a range of 15degrees of boldness, though not many fonts exploit that range.

Send this command to select a primary font with your desired stroke weight:

<ESC> (S n B

in which you replace n with a number from –7 (meaning light) to +7 (very bold). You need the negative sign to get the lighter weights. A weight of O (zero) produces medium print.

To select the stroke weight for the secondary font, use the same numbers with this command:

<ESC> )S n B

An incidental note: You will likely use optional fonts to give you boldface, so probably don’t need to know this. But it’s possible to print bold without even having a bold font in the printer. You just print the text you want in bold two times, with the overprint offset by 4 decipoints.

So you can use the command <ESC> &a n H to back up, you just need to know the width in decipoints of what you want to overprint. In a monospaced- pitch font like Courier that’s easy: just keep track of how many characters you print. In a proportional font you’d keep track of the decipoints by using a character-width table. After backing up 4 decipoints less than the total text width you just print your text again.

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