Enhancing Your Printing
Selecting typestyles with Master
Your printer has a special ESCape code called Master Select that
allows you to choose many combinations of nine different printing
cpi
l 10
cpi
12
l
proportional
l
condensed
l
emphasized
l
For more information on sending ESCape codes to your printer, see
Chapter 9.
The format of the Master Select code is shown below:
ASCII:
Decimal :
Hexadecimal:
The variable
combination. To find the value of n, refer to the table below and
add up either the decimal or hexadecimal numbers for the features
you want.
Feature
10 cpi
12 cpi
proportional
condensed
emphasized
double-strike
double-wide
italics
Software a n d Graphics
4-8
ESC
27
33
1B
21
is a number that identifies the typestyle or
Dec.
0
1
2
4
8
16
32
64
128
Select
double-strike
l
double-wide
l
italics
l
underline
l
Hex.
00
01
02
04
08
10
20
40
80