Star Micronics NB-15 user manual Using Your Printer with Word Processors

are now available. It has the capability of using several of the ad-
vanced features of your printer. Perhaps the most often used
feature	with	spreadsheet	programs is compressed			printing.
Let’s see how to use compressed printing with SuperCalc.
In SuperCalc, the /Output command provides out put to the
printer. One of the options of the /Output command is S(etup).
This option provides you with a menu of functions to configure
SuperCalc to match your printer. You can change the number of
characters that SuperCalc will print on a line and the number of
lines that will print on a page. You should be sure that these
values match		your printer.		Your printer	can print 136
characters per line of pica type, or 234 characters per line of con-
densed elite type. One of the other options on this menu is “send
setup codes to printer”. This is how we tell this printer that we
want to use condensed print. The code to switch this printer in-
to condensed print is ASCII 15, or control-O. So to switch on
condensed type, use the /Output command and, after selecting
D(isplay) and entering the range to print, select the S(etup) op-
tion, and the S(etup)-“Manual setup codes” sub option. Then, at
the prompt that says “Enter codes (CR when done)“, type con-
trol-0. Remember, to enter control-0 you should hold down the
CTRL key while you press the 0 key (That’s the letter Oh, not
the number zero). Then just press the return and select P(rint)
to print	your	report.
You only need to go through this procedure once each time
you use SuperCalc because your printer will stay in compressed
print until it’s turned off or reset.
You might also wish to use some of your printer’s other							-
features with SuperCalc. Find the code for the feature you wish
to use	in Appendix C and		use	the same procedure		given here.	--
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USING YOUR PRINTER WITH WORD PROCESSORS

Not many word processing programs recognize the advanced features of printers like your printer. They usually provide for some method of making bold characters and underlining. But your printer can do much more than that. The people that write word processing programs do, however, know that there are a lot of different printers on the market, and so they usually, (but not always) provide a way of sending special codes to a printer.

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We will study one example of this to see how a typical word pro-