Epson FX-80 Specifications download pdf (Page 89)

Notice that ESCape “T” turns either kind of Script Mode off and also

that both versions of Script Mode are automatically printed in

Double-Strike. Since Double-Strike prints at half speed, so do the

Script Modes. And since Double-Strike can’t mix with Proportional,

neither can either type of Script.

If you are using the FX-100 and you switch in and out of Double-

Strike Mode several times in the same line, you will see that

the

line slopes slightly to the right. This happens because Script prints in

Double-Strike, for which FX printers use two passes. After one pass to

print the characters on the current print line, the print head moves

down the page one-third of a dot to print

the

second set of dots.

The FX-80 can use reverse feed to return to the original print line,

but the FX-100 cannot. This does not make much difference when you

use Double-Strike infrequently. If you are using an FX-100, you can

add Underline Mode to your program to see exactly where the jog

comes:

10 LPRINT CHR$(27)"-1"

We mention this now because it is with Script characters that you are

most likely to move in and out of Double-Strike several times on one

line. If you do that on an FX-100, you’ll get a line

that

declines.

If Double-Strike was the current mode before the printer entered

Script Mode, the printer exits from Script to Double-Strike. If not, the

printer returns to Single-Strike.

Italic Mode

This is the last print mode

that

we introduce in this chapter. Italic

characters are printed in a completely different typeface than are the

more usual Roman characters. Appendix A shows the dot-matrix pat-

terns used to define both Roman and Italic characters, along with their

corresponding ASCII numbers. As you saw in Chapter 2,

the

Italic

characters’ numbering begins in the top half of

the

ASCII range (at

160, to be exact). And some computer systems won’t let the numbers

of the top half through to the printer.

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