TallyGenicom Matrix Printer Programmer's Manual page 183

The relationship between colour selection sequences and the resulting colours for several
ribbon cassettes is shown in the following table:
selected colour
*
**
***
****
Example
10 REM
20 LPRINT CHR$(27);"r";CHR$(5);
30 LPRINT "this is written with red colour"
40 LPRINT CHR$(27);"r";CHR$(3);
50 LPRINT "this is written with blue colour"
60 END
100
Miscellaneous
magenta, cyan,
yellow, black ribbon
black
red
green green **)
yellow
blue blue ***)
magenta magenta
cyan
the red is made from yellow + magenta
the green is made from yellow + cyan
the blue is made from magenta + cyan
Sequence is ignored
colour selection
red, green, blue,
black ribbon
black black
red *)
green
yellow green
blue
cyan blue
}
two-pass print is automatically executed
3 ∗ black, red ribbon
black
red red
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****)
red red
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