Epson FX-286 - Impact Printer, User Manual

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To see
an
example of emphasized, type and run the following pro-
gram.
NEW
10 LPRINT "This is standard printing."
20 LPRINT CHR$(27)"E";
30
LPRINT "This is emphasized printing."
100 LPRINT CHR$(27)"F"
T h i s i s s t a n d a r d p r i n t i n g .
This is emphasized
printing.
In Epson mode, emphasized works only in draft pica and NLQ
modes; in IBM Proprinter mode, it also works in elite.
You do sacrifice some print speed with emphasized, because the
print head slows down and prints twice as many dots, but there is a
noticeable improvement in print quality. You may
want
to use empha-
sized instead of the NLQ mode for some purposes because emphasized
printing is faster than NLQ printing. The code to turn off emphasized
is ESCape “F”.
Double-strike
The other bold mode is double-strike. For this mode the FX-286
prints each line, then moves
the
paper up slightly and prints the line
again. Each dot is printed twice, with the second one slightly below
the first as you can see if you run this program, which uses ESCape
“G” to turn on double-strike. In the IBM Proprinter mode, ESCape
“G” produces NLQ rather than double-strike when used with either
the pica or elite widths. With all other modes and widths, ESCape “G”
produces double-strike.
10 LPRINT "This is standard printing."
20 LPRINT CHR$(27)"G";
30 LPRINT
"This is double-strike printing."
100 LPRINT CHR$(27)"H"
T h i s
i s
s t a n d a r d p r i n t i n g .
T h i s
i s d o u b l e - s t r i k e p r i n t i n g .
Unlike emphasized, double-strike combines with many modes (but
not with NLQ) because it does
not
overlap dots horizontally. Since
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