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Selecting
(or describing)
a printer
is the main
step in the installation
process and frequently
the only step necessary.
If you selected
this printer
or any Star, Epson
or IBM printer
you should
be able to use software
commands
for all the standard
printer
functions,
including
bold or dou-
ble-strike
printing,
underlining,
subscripts,
superscripts,
margin control,
line-
spacing
control,
and graphics.
Printer
command
options
Besides the standard
printer
functions,
however,
your printer
has some
capabilities
your
software
may not be aware
of, including
double-
and
quadruple-size
printing
and the printing
of special characters
assigned
to
control
codes. Some software enables you to define these capabilities
as user
options
in the installation
process.
Read your software
manual
to find out
_.
whether
you can do this and if so, how.
The most useful thing you can do is to define a way to enter the escape
code
< ESC > , which is the control
character
with decimal
character
code
27 (hexadecimal
1 B). This code usually cannot
be keyed in directly (pressing
the ESC key will not work). As an installation
option,
however,
you may
be able to assign it to a function
key or a special key combination.
Doing
so will put the full power of the printer
at your disposal.
Type styles
Some
word-processing
software
has commands
that
enable
you
to
change
type styles in the middle
of a document
without
a printing
pause.
To use these commands
you must generally
define the printer's
type styles
(fonts)
during
installation,
by assigning
them numbers
for example.
Read
your software
manual
for details,
and refer to Appendix
B for the relevant
printer
commands.
Page width
Spreadsheet
programs
in particular
may ask you to specify the printer's
column
width. The column
width of this printer
depends
on the character
pitch used:
Pica
80 columns
Elite
96 columns
Semi-condensed
120 columns
(Standard
mode only)
Condensed
pica
137 columns
Condensed
elite
160 columns
(Standard
mode only)
The character
pitch can be selected
from the control
panel before you
start printing,
or possibly
by an initialization
sequence
as described
next.
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