Tally Genicom 6600 manual Half-Tone Toggle, Half-Tone Reverse Image

Half-Tone Toggle

Half-Tone Toggle

Once a half-tone pattern has been selected, it can be toggled ON and OFF within a Graphics Pass with the command:

Command ^KH<data>^KH

Example: The Graphics Pass ^M0303000GRA ^KL05PHI^KHSC OP^KHTIO^KHN^- prints:

GRA	Data printed as solid black.
^KL	Turns Half-Tone Mode ON.
05	Selects the 05 half-tone pattern.
PHI	Data printed using selected pattern.
^KH	Turns Half-Tone Mode OFF.
CS OP	Data printed as solid black.
^KH	Toggles Half-Tone Mode ON (half-tone pattern 05).
TIO	Data printed using the selected pattern.
^KH	Toggles Half-Tone Mode OFF.
N	Data prints as solid black.

Half-Tone Reverse Image

The dark background in Reverse Image mode can also be printed using half- tone pattern.

Example: The Graphics Pass ^M0505000^R^KL09PATTERN^KH^- prints:

^R	Turns ON the Reverse Image Mode.
^KL	Turns ON the Half-Tone Mode.
09	Selects the 09 dot pattern.
PATTERN	The characters to be printed in Reverse Image
	using the Half-Tone Mode.
^KH	Turns OFF the Half-Tone Mode.

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