When you use these commands there are several points to note:

The type style ((F)) and italic ((I)) commands are ignored if the NLQ Type Style switch was held down when power was switched on.

The bold command ((B))l gives double-strike printing. In draft mode you may prefer to use emphasized printing, which requires a software command or escape sequence.

A line consisting of commands alone prints as a blank line.

Software does not know that these commands are commands, so you cannot trust your software to give you the correct line width. The printed line may be considerably shorter than the line on the screen; the missing space is the space that was occupied by the commands.

One way to handle the last problem is to prepare your document without the commands, then insert them as a final step, with the margins released. The find, replace, and copy functions of word-processing software can be helpful here.

If you do not use these commands or the panel controls, the printer will print standard-size, black, draft, non-bold, non-italic characters.

The printer supports various commands in addition to the above, such as quadruple-size printing. Most of these other commands consist of the escape code followed by one or more letters or numbers. If your software enables you to place the escape code in your files, or if you were able to define this as a user option during installation, you can also embed these escape sequences. See Appendix B for further details.

After printing the first page of a long job, you may want to pause to check that the printing is correctly formatted. Press the On Line switch, setting the printer off-line. Printing will stop immediately. To resume printing, press the On Line switch again.

If you need to abandon a printing job before it is finished, your software should provide a command for this purpose. Another simple expedient is to switch the printer’s power off.

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