Citizen 120D+ User Manual page 44

PRINTING TEXT
Example:
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WIDTH LPRINT 40
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FOR N = 32 TO 126:
A$ = A$ + CHRS(N): NEXT
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LF'RINT CHR* <27); " "NEAR LETTER QUALITY
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LPRINT A*: LF'RINT
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LF'RINT CHR$(27) ; " xO";
"STANDARD MODE"
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LF'RINT A$
NEAR LETTER QUALITY
()»♦,-./01234 56789: ;<=>76ABCDEFG
HIJKLMNOPQRSTUVUXYZC\3 abcdefghiJk1 mno
pqratuvuxyzf1)~
STANDARD MODE
! ' ()*+,-. / 0 123456789: ; < = >?(SABCDEFG
HI JKLMNOPQRSTUVWX Y Z [\3 ' abcdefghi jl;lmno
pqrstuvwxyzC!
In the IBM configuration, you can also select near letter
quality with the following format:
BASIC CHR$(27) "I" CHR$(n) (n = 0, 2, 4)
Hex 1B49 nh (nh = OOh, 02h, 04h)
This sequence selects the printing quality.
■ When n = 0, you have normal quality (draft font).
■ When n = 2, you have a correspondence quality (NLQ)
(standard font).
■ When n = 4, you have normal quality (download font).
■ When n = 6, you have emphasised quality (download
font).
Each printing quality selection produces a different spacing
of the dots that make up a character. Use ESC = to load a
download font, before you select the print quality (with
either ESC l;(4); or ESC l;(6);). Please refer to Chapter 8;
creating characters.
CHARACTER PRINT WIDTH
The 120D + has three ways of changing the width of a
printed character: changing the basic pitch, expanding the
characters, and compressing the characters. By combining
these three methods, the 120D + can print eight different
character widths, as shown in Table 4-1.
TABLE 4-1. CHARACTER WIDTHS.
Character
width
Pica standard
Pica expanded
Pica compressed
Pica compressed expanded
Elite standard
Elite expanded
Elite compressed
Elite compressed expanded
Characters
Maximum
per inch characters
per line
10 80
5
40
17 136
8.5 68
12 96
6 48
20 160
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Character pitch
The
character pitch
tells you how many characters will be
printed in one inch. It is another term for characters per
inch, or cpi. The 120D + is capable of two basic pitches:
10-pitch, sometimes called pica, and 12-pitch, sometimes
called elite. They are described below.
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