Star Micronics SG-10, SG-15 user manual Printing a Design or Logo

nCombining text and graphics

It’s also possible to mix text and graphics in one line. This can be useful for labeling charts or graphs, or even inserting fancy graphics in text. Try adding these lines to our program:

45 PRINT #l,"WOW!" ;

85 PRINT #l,"This is great!" ;

Now if you run the program you should get a printout that looks like this:

But there is one thing to be careful of: all graphics data must print on the same line. The graphics command is turned off at the end of each line, even if you have specified that more graphics codes follow. To see what we mean, charge line 30 to plot 1000 points and run the program.

391WID = l@$?~

This will make the sine wave pattern long enough to go off the page.

As you can see, SG- IO/15 printed graphics up to the end of the line, then ignored the rest of the graphics data and returned to normal text on the next line.

PRINTING A DESIGN OR LOGO

Since you control the firing of every pin, you can print nearly anything with SG-IO/l5 that you can draw (and probably better, if you’re like most computer users!). This can be used for creating “computer art” or drawing maps. Or, as we’ll show you here, you can use dot graphics to print your logo at the top of each letter you print.

Designing an image to print with dot graphics is much like designing download characters. The best way to start is to lay out your image on graph paper. Since you can print eight rows (seven with a 7-bit interface) of dots with each pass of the print head, draw a heavy horizontal line every eight rows on your graph

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