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Enhancing Your Printing
Selecting
typestyles
with Master Select
Your printer has a special ESCape code called Master Select that
allows you to choose many combinations of
nine different
printing
lllOdC3:
l
10
cpi
l
12
cpi
l proportional
l
condensed
l
emphasized
l
double-strike
l
double-wide
l
italics
l
underline
For more information on sending
ESCape
codes to your printer, see
Chapter
9.
The format of the Master Select code is shown below:
ASCII:
ESC
!
n
Decimal
:
27
33
n
Hexadecimal:
1B
21
n
The variable
n
is a number that identifies the typestyle or
combination. To find the value of
n,
refer to the table below and
add up either the decimal or hexadecimal numbers for the features
you want.
Feature
Dec.
Hex.
10
cpi 0 00
12
cpi
1
01
proportional
2
02
condensed
4
04
emphasized 8 08
double-strike
16 10
double-wide
32 20
italics 64 40
undertine 128 80
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