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allow you to send your text “simply” to the printer. You can then
send codes for special features as you need them. (The software
manual will advise you on how to do this.)
Your best option, however, is with a program that offers a
“custom” installation for printers. Custom installations usually re-
quire some highly detailed information about the way your printer
works, but they give the best results. Following are the basic cate-
gories of information you’ll need for a custom installation program.
.Do you have a backspacing printer?
Yes
*What printer driver are you using?
Primary list device
@How many strikes are used for boldface printing?
2 strikes
aWhat is the communications protocol?
No protocol for the parallel interface
*What is the initialization code?
DECIMAL: 27 64
HEXADECIMAL: 1B 40
@What is the carriage return/line feed code qequence?
DECIMAL: 13
HEXADECIMAL: OD
(DIP switch l-8 should be turned on)
Pitch size/characters per inch As you know, this printer is a multiple-pitch machine, capable of
printing in the pica (lo-cpi), elite (12-cpi), and condensed (16.7 cpi)
modes. Pica is the default setting for your printer, but you can change
the default to elite if you wish, by entering the escape code < ESC >
M or by turning off DIP switch 1-6.
Proportional spacing Your printer can print proportionally spaced characters in the
letter-quality mode.
Characters per line: When the printer is set to print in pica, it will
print 80 characters per line. When set for the elite pitch, its line size
is 96 characters per line. In the proportional mode, it prints ap-
proximately 80 characters per line.
Boldface and “Emphasized” printing modes Please review the code sequences shown in Section 4 for these
functions.
The above categories contain the basic information your word
processing package needs to know about this printer. In addition,
Appendix B contains a guide for a typical installation of WordStar,
one of the most popular word processors on the market.