Star Micronics SG-15, SG-10 user manual Mixing Modes

80 turns emphasized off, so that SG-lo/15 is set for normal printing.

Look closely at the different lines of printing. In the line of double-strike printing each character has been printed twice, and they are moved down just slightly the second time they are printed.

In emphasized printing, they are moved slightly to the right the second time SG- lo/ 15 prints. The last line combined both of these so that each character was printed 4 times. Now that’s pretty nice printing, isn’t it?

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MIXING MODES

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We have learned how to use SG- 10/l 5’s many different printing modes individually.

Star’s engineers have given a unique control command that lets you choose at will between any of different printing styles. This command is called Master Select. The Master Select command consists of < ESC > “?” followed by a single ASCII code. (At IBM mode, use “!” instead of “?“.) The value of the ASCII code determines the printing style that is selected, as shown the table below.

Let’s see how this master select looks. Try this program with STAR mode:

18 'Demo master select print

24)LPRINT CHR$(27) "?" CHR$(16) ;

30 LPRINT "This line is DOUBLE-STRIKE printing."

40 LPRINT CHR$(27) "?" CHR$(24) ;

50 LPRI.NT "This line is DOUBLE-STRIKE and EMPHASIZED." 60 LPRINT CHR$(27) I'?"CHR$(8) ;

70 LPRINT "This line is EMPHASIZED printing."

80 LPRINT CHR$(27) I'?"CHR$(2) ;

90 LPRINT "This line is normal printing."

When you run this program you should get the same as the previous result.

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