You can turn off the underliningwith eitherof thesecommands:
<ESC>R <ESC>X
Suppress printing
Bysendingthecommandto suppressprintingyoucanmaketheLaserPrinter
8printspacesinplaceof
On the Diabloitself you might suppressprintingto skip over a bit of text you’dbe fillingin later,perhapswith a differentprintwheel.Or you could findthefeatureusefulin designingforms:thetextskippedovercouldbe the maximumallowablefor that blank spaceon the form.
Suppressingprintisn’tmuchuseon a laserpnntcr, but WC’VCincludedthis commandfor full Diablocompatibility:
<ESC>7
To restartnormalprintingagain,youjust send the <CR>controlcode.
GRAPHICS
Diablo graphics are rudimentary
Daisywheelprintersweren’tdevelopedwithgraphicsin mind.Not thatyou can’tproducegood simplecharts and imageswith daisywheelgraphics— many peopledo.
Butthe Diablographicscommandsdon’tgiveyou the ease and sophistica- tion you find with Epson or Proprinter graphics commands, let alone LaserJet11graphics.That’swhy not many softwarepackagesbotherwith Diablographics.
WewillexplainbrieflyherehowDiablographicsworks.Butforyoutomake goodgraphicsuseof yourLaserPrinter8,pleaseusethoseotheremulations.
HyP/ot coordinates
Diablographicsmodeis called HyPlof. The principlebehindHyPlotdot addressingis simple.
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