40 LPRINT CHR$(27);"pl";
50 LPRINT "This line is PROPORTIONAL ELITE."
60 LPRINT CHR$(27);"P";
70 LPRINT "This line is PROPORTIONAL PICA."
80 LPRINT CHR$(27);"pO";
90 LPRINT "This line is NORMAL PICA printing."
100 END
When you run this program you should get this:
Line 20 selects the elite pitch and line 40 turns on the propor-
tional printing with (ESC) “p” 1. Line 50 prints a line with pro-
portional 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 nor-
mal pica pitch.
MAKING WORDS STAND OUT
Your printer has good print density when it’s just printing nor-
mally. 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 dif-
ference is.
The following table shows the control codes for getting into
and out of boldface and emphasized modes.