Youcan nowset up theprinterby sendingit the fileNLQELITE.DAT.To
avoidumecessary loggingof commands,switchhard-copyoutputoff (by
pressingClllL-PRTSCifhardcopyis on).To printthefileREADME.DOC
inNLQ elite type,give thefollowingtwo commands:
A?COPY NLC?ELITE.PAT PRN
A)PRINT README .DOC
Forgreaterconvenienceyoucanmakeabatchfde thatwillsetup theprinter
andprint anyspecifiedfile withasingle command.Tocreate suchabatch
filewiththe nameNLQPRINT.BAT,typeinthefirstfourlines shownnext.
‘Z meansto pressthe CTRLand Zkeyssimultaneously.Tousethis fileto
printREADME.DOC,typethe fifth line.
A?c@Pj’CON NI.QFT!INT.BAT
COPY NLQELITE .DAT PRN
PRINT %1
.-L
A’?NLQpRINT RE7iDME.DOc
Thefirst line aboveis acopycommandfrom the CONsolescreento afile
namedNLQPRINT.BAT.Thenexttwolinesarethecontentsofthisfile.The
%1is adummyparameter:whateverfile nameyou typeafterNLQPRINT
willbe substitutedfor 701andprinted.
PROGRAMMING WITH BASIC
Asan exampleof programmingtheprinter onMicrosoftBASIC, wehave
listed the programfor the IBM-PC. This program runs in the printer’s
Standardmode,and the dowrdoadablecondition(DIPswitch1-1 ON and
DIPswitch 1-2 OFF).
1000 Set control cedes
1010 E$=CHR$(27) Escape cqde
1020 D$-E$+’’XO” ‘Draft quality
1030 N$=E$+’’x1° ‘Nearletterquality
1040C$=@+’’kO’’+N$ ‘Couriercharacters
1050S$=E$+’’kl’’+N$ Sarserifcharacters
106001$-E$+’’k7’’+N$‘Oratorwithsmal1 capital
107002$=E$+’’k8’’+N$‘Oratorwithlowercase
1080H$=CHR$(9) ‘Horizontaltab
1090P$=E$+”P” ‘Picapitch
1100Startprinting
1110WIDTH“1.Fll:“,255
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