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You have at your disposal a unique command that lets you
choose any valid combination of print modes and pitch. This
is the Master print mode command. It looks like this:
< ESC > “!” n
Here, the value of n defines the print style to be selected.
The value of n can range from 0 to 255, which is the range
of values that can be stored in one eight-bit byte. If you look
at each bit in this byte, you’ll find that each one represents a
printing style variation. Adding the binary values of the selected
bits gives the value of n for a particular combination of print
styles.
Table 4- 10 shows the decimal values of the bits in the Master
Print byte. To calculate the value n for a particular combination
of printing styles, just add the decimal values of the features
that you want to combine.
Table 4-10
Values of mixing print styles for Master Print
For example, if you want to select elite expanded boldface
print, you would calculate the value of 12 like this:
Elite
1
Boldface
16
Expanded
32
n= 49
The command would look like this:
CHR$(27);“!“;CHR%(49)