FEATURES OF THE PRINTER

This printer is a compact, colour, dot-matrix printer that supports the IBM/Epson commands and character sets. An excellent partner for your personal computer, it prints text and graphics in black-and-white or six bright colours. A print sample generated by a BASIC program is included inside the back cover. With more advanced software, you can produce even more striking colour graphics. Besides colour printing, some of the features of this printer are:

Extensive software support

Since it is compatible with the Epson and IBM printers, it works with any software that supports those printers. That includes most word-pro- cessing and graphics programs, spreadsheets, and integrated software packages.

Embeddable commands

Commands for NLQ type styles, colour printing, bold, italic, and ex- tra-large characters can be embedded in documents without the escape code, so you can use these features easily even if your word-processing software does not support them.

Easy operation

Clearly understandable lamp displays and beep tones provide immediate feedback when you press the switches on the control panel. The four switches can operate in combinations to perform a surprising variety of functions, including margen setting and micro-alignment.

Easy care and maintenance

The colour ribbon cartridge can be replaced in seconds; the print head in a few minutes.

Versatile paper handling

Single sheets, fanfold forms, and multi-copy forms (up to triple-ply) are ail accepted, and you can use either tractor or friction feed. A speical feature enables you to keep fanfold forms parked in readiness while printing on other paper.

Fast draht-quality printing

At 120 characters per second, the printer can print a page faster than you can read it. Characters are naturally shaped, with true descenders.

High-resolution near-letter-quality printing

When you select an NLQ type style, the printer slows down and employs a dense matrix of up to 18 by 23 dots to print clear, well-formed characters.

Large variety of type styles and sizes

The printer has one draht style and four NLQ styles (Courier, Sanserif, and Orator with small capitals or lower case), plus italics for all styles, plus condensed print, bold print, double-sized print, quadruple-sized print-see the print sample inside the back cover.

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Star Micronics lC-10 user manual Features of the Printer