Star Micronics SB-15 On one line because of the semicolons, Changing the Print Pitch, Star mode

“S” CHR$( l), and finally off in line 90. Again, everything prints

on one line because of the semicolons.

CHANGING THE PRINT PITCH

In “printer talk,” character width is called pitch. Normally, SD-lo/l 5 prints 10 characters per inch. This is called pica pitch because it’s the same spacing as a standard pica typewriter.

SD-lo/l 5 can also print 12 characters per inch. This is called elite pitch because it is the same spacing as an elite typewriter.

Condensed print is approximately 17 characters per inch. Condensed pitch allows you to get 136 columns of printing on an 8 l/z inch page.

Proportional spacing provides an alternative to the block-style output of a defined pitch. It moves its print head only as far as each character needs. Thus, the print head moves further for “M”s and “W”s than for “1”s and “i”s.

The table below shows four options of this command.

		Table	5-5
	Print	pitch commands
Pitch	Characters/inch	Mode	Control code
Pica	10	STAR	< ESC >	“B” CHR$(l)
			or CHR$(18)
		IBM	<ESC>	“pl’
			or CHR!fX18)
Elite	12	STAR	1 < ESC >	“B” CHR$(2)
		IBM	1 <ESC>	“M”
		STAR	< ESC >	“B” CHR$(3)
YYYrll-			or CHRS(15)
		IBM	CHR$(lS)
Proportional	ON	STAR	< ESC 2	“p” 1
		IBM	1 <ESC>	“p” 1
Proportional	OFF	STAR	< ESC >	“p” 0
		IBM	< ESC >	“p” 0

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Let’s see how these four pitches look. Try this program with

STAR mode:

10 ‘Demo all pitches.

24)LPRINT CHR$(27) "B" CHR$(3) ; ‘Select condensed

pitch.

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