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The IBM Proprinter mode uses a different command to set margins.
It is ESCape “X” followed by two numbers. The first number is the left
margin and the second number is the right margin. In the IBM mode,
the previous program would be written as follows:
NEW
10 LPRINT CHR$(27)"X"CHR$(10)CHR$(60)
Therefore, if you are using the IBM Proprinter mode, be sure to use
the ESCape “X” command for margin settings.
Skip-over-perforation
If you are using continuous-feed paper for printing program listings
or other material not controlled by an applications program, you may
find that the FX-286 prints right over the perforations between pages.
The FX-286 has an ESCape code to prevent this: the ESCape "N" com-
mand. You send ESCape "N" followed by the number of lines you
want the FX-286 to skip at the bottom of a page. For example, in
BASIC the following line will make the FX-286 skip six lines after each
60 lines if your printer is set for 11-inch paper:
10 LPRINT CHR$(27)"N"CHR$(6);
Since an 11-inch page is 66 lines, this will give you one inch of blank
space at the bottom of each page. If you prefer to have half of the
blank space at the top of the page and half at the bottom, simply set
the top of page approximately three lines (l/2 of an inch) below the
perforation. (See Step 7 in Chapter 1 if you need to refresh your mem-
ory on setting the top-of-page.)
Line spacing
Ordinarily you don’t have to worry about how the printer moves
the paper so that it doesn’t print lines of text on top of each other; the
FX-286 takes care of this without any special instructions. The line
spacing on the FX-286, however, can be changed with an ESCape
code.
The movement of the paper between lines is called a line feed and
the distance the paper moves is called a line space. In ordinary print-
ing the line spacing is 1/6 of an inch, which produces six lines of print
per inch. The standard spacing is the same as 12 rows of dots. Since
the FX-286 characters use nine rows of dots, the 12-dot line spacing
leaves three blank rows between the lines of text.
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