Epson EX-1000, User Manual

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Chapter 5
EX Printer Features
You can obtain many different printing effects with the EX printer,
from arranging the printout on the paper to using color or giving extra
emphasis to particular words and phrases. This chapter shows you the
features you may want to select with your software. Once you have
read about the features, you can find their commands in the Command
Summary
SelecType, as you know, controls the printing style of a whole
document. Software commands, on the other hand, can change
anything from a single character to the entire document.
Quality, Fonts, and Color
The most fundamental changes you can make to printing on the EX
are in the print quality NLQ font, and color.
The EX has two levels of print quality: draft and NLQ (Near Letter
Quality). Draft printing is fast, making it ideal for drafts and other
preliminary work. NLQ printing takes a little longer, but it produces
more fully-formed characters for presentation-quality documents.
The printout below shows the differences between draft, NLQ Roman,
and NLQ Sans Serif so that you can compare the different styles and
densities:
SelecType gives you an easy way of changing the print quality and
NLQ font, but if you prefer to print in NLQ Roman most of the time,
you can select it with a DIP switch (see Appendix E). You can also
choose the print quality and NLQ font with software commands.
If you have installed the color option kit, a software command lets
you select any one of seven colors, and you can combine some of those
colors to produce an even greater variety You can use color for graphics
or for text and for a whole page or a single word.
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