4.5
40 LPRINT CHR$ (27) ; “x0”;
50 LPRINT “This line shows standard print.”
In this program, line 20 selects NLQ characters with < ESC >
“x” 1 command. Line 30 prints a sample before line 40 switches
printer back to draft printing with an < ESC > “x” 0. When
you run the program you should get this:
This line shows NEAR LETTER QUALITY!
‘1_ i-1 i. 1’ 1 :/_ n e 5 t-1 13 WE. i-, t al-l cl al’ cd p I_ i r-i 1: ”
Now turn off the power switch. After you turn on the power
switch while holding the Mode key down on the control panel,
set the NLQ mode with the Mode key while in the Off Line
mode. Then run the program again. You should get like this:
This line shijws NEAR LETTER QUALITY!
This line shows stnndnrd print.
As you can see, now the printout only contains NLQ
characters. This is because we set the printer to the “Print
Quality Panel” mode at power on, so the printer ignored the
control codes to set or cancel NLQ characters. This is a very
useful way to print NLQ characters if you are using a packaged
software which does not support the NLQ character mode.
Table 4-l
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n Italic printing
Italic letters are letters that are slanted to the right. Your
printer can print all of its letters in italic as well as the roman
(standard) letters you are accustomed to. Italics can be used
to give extra emphasis to certain words. The command codes
to turn italic on and off are shown in Table 3-2.