Star Micronics NB24-10/15 Printer User Manual


 
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Table 6-2
Units of motion for the adjustment
of the character width
Unit of motion
Print pitch
Pica pitch
Elite pitch
Semi-condensed &
Condensed pitch
Draft characters
Letter Quality
characters
l/120 inch
l/180 inch
11120 inch l/180 inch
11240 inch l/360 inch
Try this program to see how this works.
10 ' Demo of adjusting spaces
20 LPRINT Cl-IRS (27) ; “xl” ;
30 FOR I=10 TO 1 STEP -2
40 LPRINT CHR$(27);” “;CHR$(I);
50 LPRINT "This line is added";I;"spaces."
60 NEXT I
70 LPRINT CHR$(27);” “;CHR$(O);
80 LPRINT “This line is Normal space.
90 END
This
line is
added 10
spaces.
This
line is
added
8 spaces.
This line is
added 6 spaces.
This line is
added 4 spaces.
This line is added 2 spaces.
-.
-
This line is Normal space.
This command can be used to produce micro-justification,
which is a method of justifying lines by increasing the space be-
tween each character.
n Printing at half-speed
This printer can print at the fine of 180 characters per second
(CPS) with the draft characters or 60 CPS with the LQ
characters. But it will also more slowly if you want it to: the half-
speed mode prints at 90 CPS with the draft characters or 30
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