Epson GX-80 Operating Manual page 22

Note that you use a lower case x, not a capital X, in line 10. Because
of the high resolution of the NLQ mode, it prints only in pica, not in
elite or condensed.
10 PRINT CHR${27)"x"CHR${1);
20 FOR X=65 TO 105
30
PRINT CHR${X);
40 NEXT X:
PRINT
30 PRINT CHR${15);
With this addition, the program turns on condensed but doesn't tum
off elite, giving you the printout below:
ABCDEFGHJJKLJ"it,;JPl:.�TUVWXYZ[\JA_'abcdefghi
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Near Letter Quality Mode
The examples so far in this chapter are in the draft mode, and you
have already learned how to turn on the NLQ mode with Selec-
Type, but you can also see the NLQ mode with the following
program:
Pitch Comparison
Now that you have used three short programs to produce samples of
the three main pitches, you can choose the pitch that you prefer or
the one that best fits a particular printing job. Most people use
either pica or elite for printing text and condensed for spreadsheets
or other applications where it is important to get the maximum
number of characters on a line.
In fact, if you need even more than the 132 characters per line that
condensed gives you, you can combine elite and condensed for a
mode. It is not really another pitch, because the size of the charac-
ters is the same as in the condensed mode; only the
space between
the characters is reduced. You can see this mode, which allows 160
characters to fit on a line, if you replace line 30 in your last program
with this line:
'-T
�,
c.;
I
"l
"J
"
"
c-
c-
c-
c-
�
�
e
To avoid having one program interfere with the printing modes of
another, you can cancel a mode in one of two ways:
• Using a specific cancelling code to just cancel one mode. The
<ESC> P in the last line of the program in the previous section
was used to cancel elite. Each mode has a cancelling code, which
you can find in the discussion of the code and in Appendix B.
Pica is an exception to this rule. To cancel pica, turn on elite or
condensed.
• Resetting the printer, a method explained in the next section.
Resetting the Printer
Resetting the GX-80 cancels all modes that are turned on. You can
reset the printer with one of two methods:
• Sending the reset code ( <ESC> "@")
• Turning the printer off and back on.
Each of these methods returns the printer to what are called its
defaults, which are the standard settings that are in effect every time
you turn the printer on. The two effects of resetting the printer that
you should be concerned with are: it returns the printing to single-
strike pica (unless you have set the DIP switch on the back of the
printer to make the default NLQ or condensed mode), thus cancell-
ing any other pitches or enhancements you may have turned on, and
the current position of the print head becomes the top of page
setting.
It is also possible to use SelecType to return to single-strike pica
without resetting any other codes to their defaults. Some of the
demonstration programs end with a reset code so that the com-
mands from one program will not interfere with the commands in
the next one. After you run a program with a reset code in it,
remember to change the top of page setting before you begin print-
ing full pages.
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