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nDraft and Letter Quality characters
This printer’s Letter Quality (sometimes abbreviated as LQ)
character set is ideal for correspondence and other important printing, as it produces very high quality characters. In addi- tion, your printer prints draft quality characters. This is ade- quate for most work and has the fastest printing speed. For the final printout, try Letter Quality. The program below shows an example.
10 ’ Demo of Draft and LQ characters
20 LPRINT CHR$(27);"xO";
30 LPRINT "This line shows DRAFT characters."
40 LPRINT CHRS(27);"xl";
50 LPRINT "This line shows LETTER QUALITY!"
In this program, line 20 selects draft characters with (ESC) “x” 0 command. Line 30 prints a sample before line 40 switches printer back to LQ characters with an (ESC) “x” 1. When you run the program you should get this:
This 11 ne shows DRAFT charact,ers.
This line shows LETTER QUALITY!
Now turn off the power switch. After you turn on the power switch while holding the Quality key down on the control panel, set the LQ mode with the Quality key while in the Off Line mode. Then run the program again. You should get like this:
This line shows DRAFT characters.
This line shows LETTER QUALITY!
As you can see, now the printout only contains LQ characters. This is because we set the printer to the “Quality Panel” mode at power on, so the printer ignored the control codes to set or cancel LQ characters. This is a very useful way to print LQ characters if you are using a packaged software which does not support the LQ character mode.
