Near Letter Quality Mode - Epson LX-86TM User Manual

In fact, if you need even more than the
that condensed gives you, you can combine elite and condensed
for a mode we call condensed elite. It is not really another pitch,
because the size of the characters is the same as in the condensed
mode; only the
see this mode, which allows 160 characters to fit on a line, if you
30
replace line
30 LPRINT CHR$(l5);
With this addition, the program turns on condensed but doesn't
turn off elite, giving you the printout below:
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]ˆ_`abcdefghi
If your printout is different, you may need a
such as the one below:
5 WIDTH LPRINT 255
The format for your system will probably be different. Consult
BASIC
your manual.

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 a
panel button, but you can also see the NLQ mode with the
following program:
10
LPRINT CHR$ (27) "x" CHR$ (1)
20 FOR X=65 TO 105
30 LPRINT CHR$ (X);
40 NEXT X: LPRINT
Note that you use a lowercase x, not a capital X, in line
Because of the high resolution of the NLQ mode, it prints only in
pica, not in elite or condensed.
space
between the characters is reduced. You can
in your last program with this line:
132
characters per line
WIDTH
;
statement
10.
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