together, the one with less priority is temporarily ignored. Only when
the higher priority mode is turned off, will the lower priority mode
take effect.
For example, suppose you activate both Emphasized and Com-
pressed. Since these modes cannot be combined, the printer must
make a choice. In this case, the printer
chooses
Emphasized because it
is assigned higher priority (see Table 5-l).
Table 5-1. Summary
of
modes
Emphasized
Compressed
Double-strike
Mixing Modes
Not all mode combinations create conflicts. You can combine most
modes to produce the different typestyles shown in Table
5-2 at
the
end of this chapter. Appendix B gives you the commands needed to
instruct
the
printer to print any combination of
these
modes.
Summary Notes
1. Pica is the default pitch and is active when Compressed is turned
off.
2. The two modes that produce boldface characters are Double-
Strike and Emphasized. Single-Strike is the default.
3.
Double-Strike and Emphasized produce
the
same result.
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