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CHAPTER 3
USING COMMERCIAL
SOFTWARE
Subjects we'll cover in Chapter 3 include-
. Using your printer with SuperCalc;
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Using your printer with word processors.
Many of you purchased
this printer to use with commercial
software. You made a good choice because this printer is com-
patible with most commercial
program,
from word processing
programs
to spreadsheet
programs
to accounting
programs.
Many of these programs
have a routine for describing
your
printer.
These
routines
are often in "installation
programs."
They typically give you a choice of printers or printer types to
pick from. Some typical descriptions
that you might pick for
your printer are: "TTY type printer with backspace,"
"IBM-dot
matrix printer, " "Centronics-type
printer,"
"Dot matrix ASCII
printer."
Your printer
should
work fine with any of these
descriptions.
Some printer
lists are not very clear, and may not include
anything
that you think describes
your printer.
If you can't
decide which description
best fits your printer we recommend
that you narrow the list to two or three choices (you can quickly
eliminate all the daisywheel printer types) and then experiment.
You won't hurt anything if you guess wrong; it just won't work
right. This should quickly tell you if your guess is right. If all
else fails, though, your printer dealer will be happy to give you
some advice.
Some programs
don't ask you what kind of printer you have,
but instead they ask some questions about what your printer can
do. Here are the answers to the "most asked" questions.
Your
printer can do a "backspace".
Your printer can do a "hardware
form feed".
With the questions answered,
you are ready to start printing.
Read the manual that came with your commercial
software to
see how to make it send for your printer to print. This is all you
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