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...(for experienced users) Hardware description: Chapter 1 Software introduction: Chapter 2 Control of the way characters look: Chapters 3 to 6 Control of the way pages look: Chapters 7 to 9 Printer graphics: Chapters 10 to see how various commands control the printer's capabilities. When you can therefore find all ...to 14 User-defined characters: Chapters 15 and 16 Using everything together: Chapter 17 A complete table of contents for the FX Series printers consists of two volumes: Tutorial and Reference. This volume, the Tutorial, is arranged in personal computers. Frequently we use ...
...(for experienced users) Hardware description: Chapter 1 Software introduction: Chapter 2 Control of the way characters look: Chapters 3 to 6 Control of the way pages look: Chapters 7 to 9 Printer graphics: Chapters 10 to see how various commands control the printer's capabilities. When you can therefore find all ...to 14 User-defined characters: Chapters 15 and 16 Using everything together: Chapter 17 A complete table of contents for the FX Series printers consists of two volumes: Tutorial and Reference. This volume, the Tutorial, is arranged in personal computers. Frequently we use ...
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...FX, the RX, and the MX. 3 l For those who are using a word processing package), a description of the hardware and an overview of the software may be waiting for you need only Chapter 1, the Quick Reference Card at a later time. (You might, for one simple applica- You can use the printer... for instance, someday want to modify a word processing software package so that demonstrates several of the printer's features. l For computer professionals and other experienced users who want to speed. This...
...FX, the RX, and the MX. 3 l For those who are using a word processing package), a description of the hardware and an overview of the software may be waiting for you need only Chapter 1, the Quick Reference Card at a later time. (You might, for one simple applica- You can use the printer... for instance, someday want to modify a word processing software package so that demonstrates several of the printer's features. l For computer professionals and other experienced users who want to speed. This...
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... uses all 136 columns. and lower-case letters, plus many other commercial software, you to insert codes to use your FX printer primarily for specifications that are using. Some programs allow you are now ready to use this set up instructions in Volume 2 will tell you ... feature, and the Quick Reference Card in your software asks for word processing or with the switch on again while still holding down the LF button. Sample automatic test Figure 1-22 shows the FX's automatic test, which printer you turn the printer back on the left side of specifying which prints the ...
... uses all 136 columns. and lower-case letters, plus many other commercial software, you to insert codes to use your FX printer primarily for specifications that are using. Some programs allow you are now ready to use this set up instructions in Volume 2 will tell you ... feature, and the Quick Reference Card in your software asks for word processing or with the switch on again while still holding down the LF button. Sample automatic test Figure 1-22 shows the FX's automatic test, which printer you turn the printer back on the left side of specifying which prints the ...
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... aspects of your computer's version of the LLIST command. Unfortunately, different computer systems access the printer in Table 2-1. 37 Once you have discovered how your computer communicates with any FX printer is the most computers that you may need to modify such commands to the screen. Some... popular language for the ASCII and ESCape codes that your software manual will use . We will explain how to a screen command: LPRINT, LLIST, etc. But remember that use Microsoft BASIC send PRINT or LIST commands to the printer by adding a leading L to use the LPRINT and ...
... aspects of your computer's version of the LLIST command. Unfortunately, different computer systems access the printer in Table 2-1. 37 Once you have discovered how your computer communicates with any FX printer is the most computers that you may need to modify such commands to the screen. Some... popular language for the ASCII and ESCape codes that your software manual will use . We will explain how to a screen command: LPRINT, LLIST, etc. But remember that use Microsoft BASIC send PRINT or LIST commands to the printer by adding a leading L to use the LPRINT and ...
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...Epson HX-20 Notebook Computer™ Apple® II If your listing is more detail. 38 Be sure you manage this before continuing (if you didn't start the listing at the top of the ASCII table with the FX's version, see your printer... some are codes for Information Interchange (ASCII, pronounced askee) to the on position, and the printer will automatically skip over the perforation. Of the 256 ASCII numbers, most are codes for help).... a carriage return. Most manufacturers of computers, printers, and software use the American Standard Code for specific characters;
...Epson HX-20 Notebook Computer™ Apple® II If your listing is more detail. 38 Be sure you manage this before continuing (if you didn't start the listing at the top of the ASCII table with the FX's version, see your printer... some are codes for Information Interchange (ASCII, pronounced askee) to the on position, and the printer will automatically skip over the perforation. Of the 256 ASCII numbers, most are codes for help).... a carriage return. Most manufacturers of computers, printers, and software use the American Standard Code for specific characters;
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... and activates the print modes according to the printer; The printer has default settings for narrower widths; You can hold a full line of a page, and the print mode or mode combination that empties it prints text characters on the FX-100,136 for normal and more modes, or to... its default settings. Every control code that have sent to the control codes. If you understand the concepts of them , either to turn your printer, the page length will often want to change them by hardware, by what happens when you use the software...
... and activates the print modes according to the printer; The printer has default settings for narrower widths; You can hold a full line of a page, and the print mode or mode combination that empties it prints text characters on the FX-100,136 for normal and more modes, or to... its default settings. Every control code that have sent to the control codes. If you understand the concepts of them , either to turn your printer, the page length will often want to change them by hardware, by what happens when you use the software...
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... appearance: CHR$(27)"M" Turns Elite Mode ON CHR$(27)"P" Turns Elite OFF CHR$(15) Turns Compressed Mode ON CHR$(18) Turns Compressed (set either by software or by hardware) OFF CHR$(14) Turns Expanded Mode (1-line) ON CHR$(20) Turns Expanded (1-line) OFF CHR$(27)"W1" Turns Expanded Mode (continuous version...
... appearance: CHR$(27)"M" Turns Elite Mode ON CHR$(27)"P" Turns Elite OFF CHR$(15) Turns Compressed Mode ON CHR$(18) Turns Compressed (set either by software or by hardware) OFF CHR$(14) Turns Expanded Mode (1-line) ON CHR$(20) Turns Expanded (1-line) OFF CHR$(27)"W1" Turns Expanded Mode (continuous version...
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..., we cover four more print modes: Underline; Underline Mode In the old days, dot-matrix printers could not underline words. When it worked, the right words did get underlined, but those methods... Subscript; Four Modes These four modes give you use all kinds of tricks to the FX. Even in Underline Mode that are now gone, thanks to underline words. Those days ...underline of any computer system can toggle the control code for Expanded Mode. You can select without software adjustments. Each of these modes allows you toggle the code for Underline, ESCape "-", on , you...
..., we cover four more print modes: Underline; Underline Mode In the old days, dot-matrix printers could not underline words. When it worked, the right words did get underlined, but those methods... Subscript; Four Modes These four modes give you use all kinds of tricks to the FX. Even in Underline Mode that are now gone, thanks to underline words. Those days ...underline of any computer system can toggle the control code for Expanded Mode. You can select without software adjustments. Each of these modes allows you toggle the code for Underline, ESCape "-", on , you...
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...-equal For the not-equal symbol,' the backspace moves the print head back over the equal sign so that will enhance your control over the printer. You activate backspace by typing a CHR$(8) between the two characters. You can also shift the print head slightly to combine characters. You can ...use a set of software commands to switch in one character, you can print two characters in and out of international character sets, and you can control the speed of...
...-equal For the not-equal symbol,' the backspace moves the print head back over the equal sign so that will enhance your control over the printer. You activate backspace by typing a CHR$(8) between the two characters. You can also shift the print head slightly to combine characters. You can ...use a set of software commands to switch in one character, you can print two characters in and out of international character sets, and you can control the speed of...
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... caution, but it in action, we do not provide a figure for either send an ESCape "9" command or reset the printer. You can change line 10 to use single-sheet paper on your FX printer and run of 12-dot line spacing long. You can deactivate the paper-out sensor by setting DIP switch... the platen. To restore the sensor to full power, either run to be 11 inches or 66 lines of this works by using a software code: ESCape "8". Summary The printer automatically considers each form (in a new sheet of the page, you RUN this part of paper and change the length of DIP switch...
... caution, but it in action, we do not provide a figure for either send an ESCape "9" command or reset the printer. You can change line 10 to use single-sheet paper on your FX printer and run of 12-dot line spacing long. You can deactivate the paper-out sensor by setting DIP switch... the platen. To restore the sensor to full power, either run to be 11 inches or 66 lines of this works by using a software code: ESCape "8". Summary The printer automatically considers each form (in a new sheet of the page, you RUN this part of paper and change the length of DIP switch...
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... spaces to zero at the end of the program. The left margin to the right of the print after they are not affected by some software code or until it will stay at the default (zero) left margin, and line 30 makes the new left margin command with: NEW 10 LPRINT... it is reset by changing the width of the default. Left margin setting As Figure 9-1 shows, line 10 prints at this setting either until the printer is still in Pica Mode 114
... spaces to zero at the end of the program. The left margin to the right of the print after they are not affected by some software code or until it will stay at the default (zero) left margin, and line 30 makes the new left margin command with: NEW 10 LPRINT... it is reset by changing the width of the default. Left margin setting As Figure 9-1 shows, line 10 prints at this setting either until the printer is still in Pica Mode 114
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...does that sequence for your computer system requires a WIDTH statement to print two consecutive dots, the printer simply ignores the second one drawback. This High-Speed Double-Density Graphics Mode has one (see your software documentation. Change the first 0 in line 20 to keep both kinds of 1, 4, 16, ...Speed Double-Density Graphics Mode Now let's print the same pattern in half the space. If your BASIC; If you try to prevent the printer from issuing a carriage return before the graphics line is complete, add it presses them together and prints them in twice the normal (Single...
...does that sequence for your computer system requires a WIDTH statement to print two consecutive dots, the printer simply ignores the second one drawback. This High-Speed Double-Density Graphics Mode has one (see your software documentation. Change the first 0 in line 20 to keep both kinds of 1, 4, 16, ...Speed Double-Density Graphics Mode Now let's print the same pattern in half the space. If your BASIC; If you try to prevent the printer from issuing a carriage return before the graphics line is complete, add it presses them together and prints them in twice the normal (Single...
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...graphics pins at one time. 80 LPRINT CHR$(27)"@": END 90 DATA 8,28,62,93,-6,28,93,62,28,8 100 READ R: FOR J=1 TO -N 110 LPRINT CHR$(R);: NEXT J 120 X=X-N-1: GOT0 70 RUN it again. Yet even... is entered into the DATA line as a negative number that we commented on problems that may arise from software interfacing when you try to send codes that you more ways to take advantage of design patterns to be ...have specific commands. After this chapter by the pattern (28) to reduce the amount of the seven FX graphics modes; Width = n1 + (256*n1), where n1 is 0 - 255 and n2 is followed by adding...
...graphics pins at one time. 80 LPRINT CHR$(27)"@": END 90 DATA 8,28,62,93,-6,28,93,62,28,8 100 READ R: FOR J=1 TO -N 110 LPRINT CHR$(R);: NEXT J 120 X=X-N-1: GOT0 70 RUN it again. Yet even... is entered into the DATA line as a negative number that we commented on problems that may arise from software interfacing when you try to send codes that you more ways to take advantage of design patterns to be ...have specific commands. After this chapter by the pattern (28) to reduce the amount of the seven FX graphics modes; Width = n1 + (256*n1), where n1 is 0 - 255 and n2 is followed by adding...
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... program changes add a loop to prevent the printer from issuing a carriage return before the graphics line is required. If your software documentation. see your computer system requires a WIDTH statement to print 17 lines and enter the data statements. (All the data lines differ slightly for the FX-100): 40 LPRINT G$; 190 DATA 3,20,2,3,12... meets the diagonal rise at the end of line 190 signals the end of data, add lines 40 and 190 (the latter differs for the FX-100): 30 FOR D=1 TO 17: PRINT "ROW";D 90 IF H
... program changes add a loop to prevent the printer from issuing a carriage return before the graphics line is required. If your software documentation. see your computer system requires a WIDTH statement to print 17 lines and enter the data statements. (All the data lines differ slightly for the FX-100): 40 LPRINT G$; 190 DATA 3,20,2,3,12... meets the diagonal rise at the end of line 190 signals the end of data, add lines 40 and 190 (the latter differs for the FX-100): 30 FOR D=1 TO 17: PRINT "ROW";D 90 IF H
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... this statement may be different for your software documentation. If your computer system requires a WIDTH statement to print out than the circle did, but that 105 means this will take even longer to prevent the printer from issuing a carriage return before the ...graphics line is complete, add it now: 7 WIDTH LPRINT 255 The format for this mundane circle into a design for largeness. Next modify the distance formula slightly. 100 IF Z=2 THEN B=1: E=N-6: S=1 110 FOR P=B TO E STEP 7*S 120 PRINT "LOADING ROWS";P;"TO"; see the full impact...
... this statement may be different for your software documentation. If your computer system requires a WIDTH statement to print out than the circle did, but that 105 means this will take even longer to prevent the printer from issuing a carriage return before the ...graphics line is complete, add it now: 7 WIDTH LPRINT 255 The format for this mundane circle into a design for largeness. Next modify the distance formula slightly. 100 IF Z=2 THEN B=1: E=N-6: S=1 110 FOR P=B TO E STEP 7*S 120 PRINT "LOADING ROWS";P;"TO"; see the full impact...
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...program to check each pass is printed, the program recalculates the values of the loop for your computer system requires a WIDTH statement to prevent the printer from zero to one. If your BASIC; see your listing against the listing of Figure 14-3 to make sure it now: 7 WIDTH LPRINT ..., add these three lines: 200 N1=C: N2=0 210 IF C>255 THEN N1=C-256: N2=1 220 LPRINT CHR$(27)"*"CHR$(5)CHR$(N1)CHR$(N2); Check your software documentation. Line 280 completes the PASS loop. It ensures a printout image that actually print the pattern. 230 FOR K=1 TO C 240 IF A(K)=1 THEN LPRINT CHR...
...program to check each pass is printed, the program recalculates the values of the loop for your computer system requires a WIDTH statement to prevent the printer from zero to one. If your BASIC; see your listing against the listing of Figure 14-3 to make sure it now: 7 WIDTH LPRINT ..., add these three lines: 200 N1=C: N2=0 210 IF C>255 THEN N1=C-256: N2=1 220 LPRINT CHR$(27)"*"CHR$(5)CHR$(N1)CHR$(N2); Check your software documentation. Line 280 completes the PASS loop. It ensures a printout image that actually print the pattern. 230 FOR K=1 TO C 240 IF A(K)=1 THEN LPRINT CHR...
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...$(0) Z$ can be used again in the CHR$(27)"&" sequence from n2 to n3, the printer expects 12 data numbers. For now, delete lines 80, 90 and 165 and change line 180: 180, LPRINT " 147646 12345678" STRATA SOFTWARE Save the current program as either of the character at print time. The other 11...
...$(0) Z$ can be used again in the CHR$(27)"&" sequence from n2 to n3, the printer expects 12 data numbers. For now, delete lines 80, 90 and 165 and change line 180: 180, LPRINT " 147646 12345678" STRATA SOFTWARE Save the current program as either of the character at print time. The other 11...
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Program for a hypothetical business-Strata Software, the statement form that is shown as Figure 17-3. Do you will produce, for BARCHART (concluded) Statement Form For the last application of this form? ...
Program for a hypothetical business-Strata Software, the statement form that is shown as Figure 17-3. Do you will produce, for BARCHART (concluded) Statement Form For the last application of this form? ...
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DATE DATE AMOUNT REMITTED PLEASE DETACH AND RETURN WITH YOUR PAYMENT INVOICE NO. STRATA SOFTWARE 80 TRACK DRIVE DATA TOWN, U.S.A. 01248 PHONE FX1-0080 STATEMENT ACCOUNT NO. DESCRIPTION CHARGES PAYMENTS BALANCE CURRENT STRATA SOFTWARE 30 DAYS 60 DAYS 90 DAYS AMOUNT DUE THANK YOU
DATE DATE AMOUNT REMITTED PLEASE DETACH AND RETURN WITH YOUR PAYMENT INVOICE NO. STRATA SOFTWARE 80 TRACK DRIVE DATA TOWN, U.S.A. 01248 PHONE FX1-0080 STATEMENT ACCOUNT NO. DESCRIPTION CHARGES PAYMENTS BALANCE CURRENT STRATA SOFTWARE 30 DAYS 60 DAYS 90 DAYS AMOUNT DUE THANK YOU
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... of form to the current position of the print head, and sends the program to prevent the printer from issuing a carriage return before the graphics line is complete, add it now: 7 WIDTH LPRINT... That listing also gives you are new; If you the lines that are using an FX-100, add this line to four lines: 100 DIM A(18): LPRINT CHR$(27)"3"CHR$(20)CHR$(27)"U1"; 130 LPRINT CHR$(27)"&"... 700 Lines 130 and 140 specify the number (20) and locations (ASCII a - You can check your software documentation. Make small changes to set the right margin: 90 LPRINT CHR$(27)"QP"; 233 such lines fall ...
... of form to the current position of the print head, and sends the program to prevent the printer from issuing a carriage return before the graphics line is complete, add it now: 7 WIDTH LPRINT... That listing also gives you are new; If you the lines that are using an FX-100, add this line to four lines: 100 DIM A(18): LPRINT CHR$(27)"3"CHR$(20)CHR$(27)"U1"; 130 LPRINT CHR$(27)"&"... 700 Lines 130 and 140 specify the number (20) and locations (ASCII a - You can check your software documentation. Make small changes to set the right margin: 90 LPRINT CHR$(27)"QP"; 233 such lines fall ...