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must make sure that you’ve set the DIP switches properly. The rest of this manual discuss the various control codes to
control this printer. You’ll find that many features have dif- ferent codes for either the Standard mode or the IBM mode.
The Standard Mode emulates the Epson
SOME SPECIAL KINDS OF TEXT
If you looked carefully at your printer’s self test, you probably noticed that it can print in italics. But that’s not all! Your printer can underline characters, print superscripts and subscripts, and perhaps most exciting, print near letter quality characters.
■Near Letter Quality characters
This printer’s Near Letter Quality (sometimes abbreviated as NLQ) character set is ideal for correspondence and other impor- tant printing, as it produces very high quality characters. Nor- mally, your printer prints draft quality characters. This is ade- quate for most work and has the fastest printing speed. For the final
10 ‘ Demo of NLQcharacter set
20 LPRINTCHR$(27); “xl”;
30 LPRINT “This 1ine shows NEARLETTERQUALITY!”
40 LPRINTCHR$(27); “x()”;
50 LPRINT “This 1ine 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” O. When you run the program you should get this:
1ine shows NEAR LETTER QUALITY!
1.1I“”iE?. +l””iI:2k!S ::i’1::/Jl”i (j ;:,17 t:I p 1“”i.
