Star Micronics NX-15 user manual Making Words Stand Out, Print emphasis commands

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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.

NOTE: When you set the “Print Pitch Panel” mode by the Print Pitch key on the control panel at power-on, these control codes related print pitches except expand print mode is ignored.

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.

Table 4-9

Print emphasis commands

Try them now with this little program: