Star Micronics SB-15 user manual Printing Text, Some Special Kinds of Text

CHAPTER 5

PRINTING TEXT

WITH SD-lo/l5

Beginning with this chapter we will be exploring all the features of SD-10/15.

In this chapter we’ll cover:

•Near letter quality characters

•Italics

•Underlining

•Superscript and subscripts

•Print pitch

•Print emphasis

All our examples will be given in Microsoft BASIC as used by the IBM Personal Computer, but remember that you don’t need to know BASIC to use SD-10/15’s features. Just use the same ASCII codes as we do in our examples.

You have already printed a few lines on your SD-lo/l5 printer. Now it’s time to start looking at the many variations of printing style that you have available to you.

SOME SPECIAL KINDS OF TEXT

nNear Letter Quality characters

SD- 10/l 5’s Near Letter Quality (sometimes abbreviated as NLQ) character set is ideal for correspondence and other im- portant printing, for it takes a keen eye to detect that it is from a dot matrix printer. Normally (unless you have turned DIP switch l-4 off), SD- lo/ 15 prints draft quality charactersThis is adequate for most work and it prints fastest. But for the final printout, try NLQ. The program below shows how.