IBM 6400 Series, Setup Manual

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Chapter 1
The IBM 6400 Printer Family
Output Control
The printers have the following output control features:
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Six modes for printing text:
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Near-Letter Quality (NLQ)
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Near-Letter Quality San Serif
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Data Processing (DP)
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Draft
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Optical Character Recognition Font A (OCR A)
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Optical Character Recognition Font B (OCR B)
OCR A and OCR B support 120 and 180 PEL, with 120 PEL the default value.
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Selectable forms length and width
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Character attribute specification:
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Selectable pitch: normal, expanded, and compressed
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Emphasized (shadow) printing
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Automatic underlining and overscoring
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Superscript and subscript printing
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Double high and wide printing
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Resident multinational character sets
Graphics And Vertical Formatting
Several graphics and vertical formatting features are available:
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Three built-in graphics generators:
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IBM Proprinter III XL bit-image graphics
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Epson FX dot graphics mode
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Printronix P-Series Plot
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Programmable electronic vertical formatting provides rapid vertical paper
movement to specified lines for printing repetitive and continuous forms.
You can use the following methods:
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Vertical tabbing in Serial Matrix, Proprinter III XL, and Epson FX
emulation modes
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Electronic Vertical Format Unit (EVFU) in P-Series emulation mode