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Master Select
The LX-90 has a special ESCape code called Master Select
allows you to choose any possible combination of seven different
modes: pica, elite, compressed, emphasized, double-strike, expanded,
and underline. The format of
followed by a number that is calculated by adding together the values
of the modes listed below:
underline
expanded
double-strike
emphasized
compressed
elite
pica
For any combination, just add up the values of each of the modes
you want and use the total as the number after ESCape "!". For exam-
ple, to calculate the code for expanded underlined pica, add
lowing numbers together:
underline
expanded
pica
To print this combination, therefore, you use ESCape "!" followed
by the number 160. In the BASIC programming language the com-
mand is CHR$(27)"!"CHR$(l60).
To try this number or
which will ask you for a Master Select number and then give you a
sample of printing using that code.
10 INPUT "Master Select number";M
20 LPRINT CHR$(27)"!"CHR$(M)
30 LPRINT "This sample of printing uses "
LPRINT "Master Select number";M
40
50 LPRINT CHR$(27)"@"
In this program, you can use any number you calculate by using the
formula above, but remember that emphasized can't combine with
compressed or elite. If you try to combine emphasized with either of
the two narrow pitches, you won't harm your printer; it will simply
use a priority list in its memory to determine which mode to use.
Master Select code is ESCape "!"
the
128
32
16
8
4
1
0
128
32
0
160
other, enter and run this short program,
any
that
fol-
the
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