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Figure 6-1. Single-strike and emphasized
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Chapter6
Print Enhancements and Special Characters
Emphasized mode
In the emphasized mode the GX-80 prints each dot twice, with the
second dot slightly to the right of the first. In order to do this, the
print head must slow down so that it has time to fire, retract, and fire
the pins quickly enough to produce the overlapping dots. As you
can see in Figure 6-1, this method produces better-looking, more
fully-formed characters that are darker than single-strike ones.
Bold Modes
Besides the pitches (pica, elite, and condensed) covered in Chapter
5, the GX-80 offers many other typestyles, including two for bold
printing-emphasized and double-strike.
The GX-80 can change not only the pitch - it has many more ways
of varying and enhancing printing. To avoid your having to type in
dozens of programs to try all the features, this chapter gives you just
one master program that can demonstrate any feature.
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Near Letter Quality
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Elite print
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ESC "M"
ESC "P"
Condensed print
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Condensed elite print
20.00 ESC "M" 15 ESC "P" 18
� . the modes demonstrated in this chapter are compared in Table
Table 5-1. Summary of GX-80 pitches
Remember that you do not have to use BASIC to change modes;
you can use any method that sends the printer the proper codes.
You m. a y wish to have NLQ as the default mode when you switch
on. This can be changed by altering a DIP switch on the back of the
GX-80. See Appendix D for details of how to do this.
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