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Chapter 9

This might take a little practice to get perfect. We need to be able to do it right,

especially for matching lines and boxes on pre-printed forms such as invoices,

bills of sale, purchase orders and the like.

Some users find it easier to position the paper in the ball park, then finish posi-

tioning by reference to one of the tractor pins, something else that moves with

the paper, or some point over which the paper travels. Practice will make perfect.

Figure 6-2

Type in this program:

1 0 FOR N = 1 TO 6 6

2 0

L P R I N T N

3 0 NEXT N

and RUN.

Well, that was singularly unexciting. What did it tell us?

1. It told us that the paper accepts exactly 66 rows. No more and no less.

2. Since the numbers all line up in a nice column, and there's no vertical spacing

between them, the Printer does not automatically insert margins at the top or

bottom of a page.