Pica Printing; Changing Pitches - Epson LX-90TM User Manual

Pica Printing

The first exercise is a simple three-line program to print a sample
line of characters in pica, the standard pitch. Enter this program:
40
FOR X=65 TO
50 LPRINT
CHR$(X);
60 NEXT
X: LPRINT: LPRINT
Now run the program. You should get the results you see below,
pica characters per inch.
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z [ \ ] ˆ - ` a b c d e f g h i

Changing Pitches

Now you can try other pitches. As explained in Chapter
uses the same pattern of dots for pica, elite, and compressed
LX-90
characters, but it changes the horizontal spaces between the dots to
produce the three different widths.
In elite mode there are
there are The
17.16.
"M" command and prints in compressed when it receives the ASCII
command. Print a sample line of elite characters by adding the line
below to your previous program. (Simply type this line and press
you do not need to retype the other lines.)
RETURN;
20 LPRINT CHR$(27);"M";
This line uses the command for elite, ESCape 'M", to turn on that
mode. When you run the program, your printout should look like the
one below.
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]ˆ_`abcdefghi
The next addition to the program cancels elite with ESCape "P" and
turns on compressed with ASCII
30
LPRINT CHR$(27);"P";CHR$(15);
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characters per inch, and in compressed
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prints in elite when it receives the ESCape
LX-90
15:
10
the
3,
15
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