Star Micronics NB24-10/15 User Manual page 63

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Here line 30 turns on superscripts with (ESC) "S" 0. It's
turned off in line 50 with (ESC) "T". Then between printing
text, subscripts are turned on in line 70 with (ESC) "S" 1, and
finally off in line 90. Again, everything prints on one line
because of the semicolons.
CHANGING THE PRINT PITCH
In "printer talk," the number of characters that can be printed
in one inch is called the print pitch or character pitch. Normally,
your printer is set for 10 characters per inch, which is called pica
(and is the same as the pica pitch on most typewriters). This
works out to 80 characters per line for the lo-inch type, or 136
characters per line for the 15-inch type.
You can also print 12 character
per inch (elite pitch) which
gives you 96 or 163 characters per line, or 15 character per inch
(semi-condensedpitch) which gives you 120 or 204 characters per
line.
You can set these pitches by using the Print Pitch key on the
control panel manually, or by software as shown in the table
below.
Table 4-6
Print pitch commands
Try this program to see how these three pitches work. Be sure
to set the printer to Standard mode.
10 ' Demo of print pitches
20 LPRINT CHR$(27);"g";
30 LPRINT "This line is SEMI-CONDENSED pitch."
40 LPRINT CHR$(27);"M";
50 LPRINT "This line is ELITE pitch."
60 LPRINT CHRS(27);"P";
70 LPRINT "This line is PICA pitch (norma l)."
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