Skip Over Perforation; Line Spacing - Epson LX-86TM User Manual

Skip Over Perforation

If you are using continuous pin-feed paper for printing program
listings or other material not controlled by an applications program,
you may find that the LX-86 prints right over the perforations be-
tween pages. The LX-86 has an ESCape code to prevent this: the
ESCape "N" command. You send ESCape "N" followed by the
number of lines you want the LX-86 to skip at the bottom of a page.
For example, in BASIC the following line will make the Lx-86 skip
six lines after each
10 LPRINT CHR$(27) "N" CHR$ (6) ;
Since a standard page is
blank space at the bottom of each page. If you prefer to have half of
the blank space at the top of the page and half at the bottom, simply
set the top of page approximately three lines (l/2 inch) below the
perforation. (See Appendix E if you need to refresh your memory on
setting the top of page.)

Line Spacing

Ordinarily you don't have to worry about how the printer moves
the paper so that it doesn't print lines of text on top of each other; the
LX-86 takes care of this without any special instructions. If, however,
you want to understand how line spacing works or you need to
change the line spacing for a special application such as graphics,
you'll want to read this brief explanation of line spacing on the
Ix-86.
The movement of the paper between lines is called a line feed and
the distance the paper moves is called a line space. In ordinary print-
ing the line spacing is l/6-inch, which produces six lines of print per
inch. Figure 7-l will help you visualize this spacing. As you can see in
the figure, the standard (default) spacing is the same as 12 rows of
dots. Since the Lx-86 characters use nine rows of dots, the 12-dot line
spacing leaves three blank rows between the lines of text.
60 lines:
66 lines, this will give you one inch of
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