Parts User Manual

Chapter 5

Print Enhancements and Special

Characters

Besides the pitches (pica, elite, and compressed) covered in Chap-

ters 3 and 4, the LX-90 offers many other typestyles.

Bold Modes

Two of the typestyles (emphasized and double-strike) are bolder

than standard printing.

Emphasized Mode

In the emphasized mode the LX-90 prints each dot twice, with the

second dot slightly to the right of the first. In order to do this, the print

head must slow down so that it has time to fire, retract, and fire the

pins quickly enough to produce the overlapping dots. This method

produces better-looking, more fully-formed characters that are darker

than single-strike characters.

To see an example of emphasized, type and run the following pro-

gram. (See “How to Run BASIC Programs” in Chapter 4 if necessary.)

NEW

10 LPRINT "This is standard printing."

20 LPRINT CHR$(27)"E";

LPRINT "This is emphasized printing."

100 LPRINT CHR$(27)"@"

This is standard printing.

This is emphasized printing