Printer User Manual
Table Of Contents
- FRONT MATTER
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- CHAP 1-SETTING UP THE PRINTER
- CHAP 2-PAPER HANDLING
- CHAP 3-USING THE PRINTER
- CHAP 4-USING SOFTWARE AND GRAPHICS
- Using the LQ-2550 With Application Programs
- Computer-Printer Communication
- Enhancing Your Printing
- Graphics
- User-Defined Characters
- Designing Your Characters
- Design Grids
- Data Numbers
- Sending Information to Your Printer
- Printing User-Defined Characters
- Copying ROM Characters to RAM
- Letter Quality Characters
- Proportional Mode Characters
- Superscripts and Subscripts
- The Graphics Command
- Column Reservation Numbers
- A simple Graphics Program
- Using Hand-Calculated Data to Print Graphics
- Using Software and Graphics
- Mixing Print Styles
- CHAP 5-MAINTENANCE AND TRANSPORTATION
- CHAP 6-TROUBLESHOOTING
- Troubleshooting
- Problems and Solutions
- The Printer Does Not Print
- The Printer Stops Printing
- The Printout is Spaced Incorrectly
- The Printout is Faint or Uneven
- The Printout is Not what You Expect
- Single Sheets Do Not Feed Properly
- Continuous Paper Does Not Feed Properly
- Cut Sheet Feeder Does Not Load Paper Correctly
- The Short Tear-Off Feature Does Not Work Properly
- Color Printing Is Not What You Expect
- Data Dump Mode
- CHAP 7-USING PRINTER OPTIONS
- CHAP 8-COMMAND SUMMARY
- APPENDIX A-TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS
- GLOSSARY
- INDEX

Double-wide and double-high
The double-wide mode doubles the width of any size character, while the
double-high mode doubles the height of any size character. These modes
are useful for emphasizing headings in reports and making displays, but
they are usually not suitable for large amounts of text. These modes can
also be combined to obtain even more impressive printing results.
This is double-wide.
This is double-high,
Double-wide double-high
Condensed
Both 10 and 12 cpi printing can be reduced to about 60% of their normal
width using the condensed mode. This mode is particularly useful for
printing wide spreadsheets because condensed 12 cpi allows you to print
up to 272 characters on an 136inch line.
Condensed can be selected with a software command, with SelecType,
or with a panel setting (see Chapter 3). Even if you turn condensed on
with SelecType or a panel setting, you can still turn it off with a software
command.
Condensed 10 cpi gives you more characters on a line.
Condensed
12 cpi gives you even sore!
Widening or narrowing the characters also widens or narrows the spaces
between words and letters. Because word processors usually create a left
margin by printing spaces, you may need to adjust the margins and the
number of characters on a line to keep the margins correct if you change
character widths.
Emphasized and double-strike printing
Emphasized and double-strike modes give your printing added emphasis.
In emphasized mode, the LQ prints each character twice as the print
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