Star Micronics NR-10, NR-15 user manual Values of mixing print styles for Master Print

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You have at your disposal a unique command that lets you choose any valid combination of print modes and pitch. This is the Master print mode command. It looks like this:

< ESC > “1” n

Here, the value of n defines the print style to be selected. The value of n can range from 0 to 255, which is the range of values that can be stored in one eight-bit byte. If you look at each bit in this byte, you’ll find that each one represents a printing style variation. Adding the binary values of the selected bits gives the value of n for a particular combination of print styles.

Table 4- 10 shows the decimal values of the bits in the Master Print byte. To calculate the value n for a particular combination of printing styles, just add the decimal values of the features that you want to combine.

Table 4-10

Values of mixing print styles for Master Print

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For example, if you want to select elite expanded boldface print, you would calculate the value of y1like this:

Elite1

Boldface16

Expanded32

n=49

The command would look like this:

CHR$(27);“!“;CHR$(49)