Star Micronics NX-10 user manual Lprint CHR$27WCHR$l LPl-lINTCHR$27WCHR$49 Lprint CHR$27Wl

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This command that turns on expanded printing. (ESC), as we mentioned earlier, is the escape code (which is ASCII code 27). A letter or number in quotes (such as the “W” above) means that the character should be sent to the printer (without the quotes). In our example, you should send a capital W following the escape code. In BASIC, you could do this in a couple of ways: by sending the character itself (e,g, LPRINT “W”;), or by using the CHR$ function to send the ASCII code for the character (e.g. LPRINT CHR$(87);).

Many of printer commands end with a 1 or 0. When shown as in the above example (i.e. no quotes and no “CHR$“), you can use either ASCII code 1 (i.e. CHR$(l)) or the character “1” (which is ASCII code 49). The same idea applies to commands ending with 0.

So for out example above, any of these BASIC statements will have the same result:

LPRINT CHR$(27>;"W";CHR$(l>

LPl-lINTCHR$(27);"W';CHR$(49)

LPRINT CHR$(27);"Wl"

Even though, there are many commands that require the use of ASCII code 0; the character “0” (ASCII code 48) cannot be substituted. In these cases, instead of an unadorned 0 we will show ‘CHR$(O) each time these commands are referenced.

That’s it for the basics. You are now ready to learn how to use the many features of your printer.

SOME SPECIAL HINDS OF TEXT

If you looked carefully at your printer’s self test, you noticed that it can print in italics. But there’s more! Your printer can

underline characters, print superscripts and subscripts, and perhaps most exciting, print near letter quality characters.

nNear Letter Quality characters

This printer’s Near Letter Quality (sometimes abbreviated as NLQ) character set is ideal for correspondence and other impor- tant printing, for it takes a keen eye to detect that it is from a dot matrix printer. Normally, your printer prints draft quality characters. This is adequate for most work and it prints fastest.