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The form feed (CHR$(12)) in line 50 caused the printer to move to the top of a new page before printing the last two lines.

nChanging the page length

You may have some computer forms that you wish to use with this printer that are not 11 inches high. That’s no problem, because you can tell your printer how high the forms are that you are using. There are two commands for doing this, shown in this table.

Table 6-3

Form length control

FunctionControl code

Advancepaperto topof nextpage

CHR$(12)

Set the

page

length

to

n lines

(ESC)“C”CHR$(n)

Set the

page

length

to

n inches

(ESC)“C”CHR$(O)CHR$(n)

Let’s set up a 7 inch high form length, which is typical of many computer checks. The following program will do it.

10 ‘Demo of variable form lengths

20 LPRINT CHR$(27);“C”;CHR$(O):CHR$(7);

30LPRINT “PAY TO THE ORDER OF : ”

40LPRINT CHR$(12);

50LPRINT “PAY TO THE ORDER OF : ”

60END

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