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Line 20 selects the elite pitch and line 40 turns on the pro- portional printing with < ESC > “p” 1. Line 50 prints a line with proportional elite pitch. Then, line 60 selects the pica pitch, so that line 70 prints a line with proportional pica pitch. Finally, line 80 resets the proportional printing and line 90 prints a line in normal pica pitch.
NOTE: When you set the “Print Pitch Panel” mode by the Print Pitch key on the control panel at
MAKING WORDS STAND OUT
Your printer has good print density when it’s just printing normally. But sometimes you may want something to stand out from the rest of the page. This printer provides two ways to do this: boldface and emphasized print. Both of these go over the characters twice, but they use slightly different methods to darken the characters. Let’s try them and see what the difference is.
The following table shows the control codes for getting into and out of boldface and emphasized modes.
Table
Print emphasis commands
Function | Control code |
Boldface ON
Boldface OFF
Emphasized ON
Emphasized OFF
<ESC > “G”
<ESC > “H”
<ESC > “E”
<ESC > “F”
Try them now with this little program:
