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Chapter 6
Print Enhancements and Special Characters
Now that you have seen how you can change the pitch of your
LX-80 printing, we can show you many more ways to vary and
enhance your printing. So that you won’t have to type in dozens of
programs to try all the features, we give you just one master program
that can demonstrate any feature.
Bold Modes
Besides the pitches (pica, elite, and compressed) that we covered in
Chapter 5, the LX-80 offers many other typestyles, including two for
bold printing-emphasized and double-strike.
Emphasized mode
In the emphasized mode the LX-80 prints each dot twice, with the
second dot slightly to the right of the first. In order to do this, the
print head must slow down so that it has time to fire, retract, and fire
the pins quickly enough to produce the overlapping dots. As you can
see in Figure 6-1, this method produces better-looking, more fully-
formed characters that are darker than single-strike ones.
Figure 6-1. Emphasized
and
single-strike
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