Star Micronics 8 Series Printer User Manual


 
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Side margins
To setthe left marginto a particularcolumnyousendthiscommand:
inwhichn isthecolumnnumberfortheleftmargin.(Notethatthecharacter
/is a lowercaseL.)
Columnwidthisdeterminedbythecurrentpitch(forexample1/12inchfor
12-pitch),or is set at 1/10inchforproportionalspacedtext.Oncemargins
areset,changingthe pitchdocsnotaffectmargins.
Samerulesapplyforthe rightmargin:yousendthiscommand:
<ESC>Q n
in whichn is the columnnumberforthe rightmargin.
How to center or justify text
If your text processorwon’t center or line up text for you, your Star
LaserPnntcr8 candothejob. Yusrifiedtextprintsflushagainstoncorboth
sidemarginson boththerightandleft sidesof thepage.
You turn on the centeringor justification of text with the following
command:
cESC> a n
For n entera numberfromthefollowingtable:
MODE
leftjustification
:
centering
1
rightjustification 2
bothsidcsjustificd 3
Backspaceandhorizontaltabswillonly workin left-justificationmode.
Line spacing
EX-800emulationoffersfivedifferentwaysto verticallyspacelines.The
defaultis 6 lines to the inch, but you can changeline spacing with the
commandsin the followingtable. (In the first four of these commands,
rememberthatthenumberfollowingthe<ESC>codeis a realnumber,not
the ASCIIsymbolforO,1,2 or 3.)
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