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you may

have

turned on, and the current position of the print head

becomes the top-of-page setting.

Some of the demonstration programs end with a reset code

(Escape "@“) so that the commands from

one

program will not inter-

fere with the commands in the next one. After you run a program with

a reset code in it, remember to change the top-of-page setting before

you begin printing full pages.

Pitch Comparison

Now that you have used three short programs to produce samples

of the three main pitches, you can choose the pitch that you prefer or

the one that best fits a particular printing job. Most people use either

pica or elite for printing text and compressed for spreadsheets or other

applications in which it is important to get the maximum number of

characters on a line.

In fact, if you need even more than the

132

characters per line that

compressed gives you, you can combine elite and compressed for a

mode called compressed elite. It is not really another pitch, because

the

size of the characters is the same as in

the

compressed mode; only

the

space between the

characters is reduced. You can see this mode,

which allows

160

characters to fit on a line, if you replace line

your last program to produce the following program:

5 PRINT CHR$(4);"PR#1"

20 PRINT CHR$(27);"M";

PRINT CHR$(15);

FOR X=65 TO 105

50 PRINT CHR$(X);

60 NEXT X: PRINT

300 PRINT CHR$(4);"PR#0"

With this addition, the program turns on compressed but doesn’t

turn off elite, giving you the printout below:

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\]^_'abcdefghi

Near Letter Quality Mode

The examples so far in this chapter are in the draft mode, but you

can also use a software command to turn on the NLQ mode, which

you turned on with SelecType in Chapter