Star Micronics LC24-30 user manual A3 - RAM usage, A4 - Color and zoom, A5 - Auto line feed

A3 - RAM usage

If A3 is OFF, the printer is able to store patterns repre- senting characters that you have defined with the Epson or IBM printer commands (see Chapter 7). If A3 is ON, the printer can store the data it receives from the com- puter. This speeds up the printing process. However, it cannot store user-defined character patterns.

A4 - Color and zoom

If A4 is ON, you can print in color and use the zoom fea- ture. If it is OFF, these features are unavailable. If you change this setting after saving settings using the macro function (see page 62), the current Zoom setting will be cancelled.

A5 - Auto line feed

If A5 is ON, your computer needs to send both a line feed code and a carriage return code at the end of each line. Most applications will do this automatically. If A5 is set to OFF, the printer will automatically perform a line feed each time it receives a carriage return. As a result, your software only needs to send a carriage return at the end of a line.

If your output is double-spaced when it should not be, you may need to set this setting to ON.

If a line of your output is printed on top of another line, you should set this setting to OFF.

Bl - Graphics direction

When the printer prints graphics rather than text, it can either print bi-directionally (the print head prints as it moves from left to right and again as it returns from right to left), or uni-directionally (the head prints from left to right only). Bi-directional printing is faster, while uni-directional printing may give higher-quality output. If Bl is ON, bi-directional printing is selected. If Bl is OFF (the default setting), uni-directional printing is selected.

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