Emphasized works only in draft pica and NLQ modes. In elite and condensed the dots are already so close together that even with the reduced print speed, the MPS 1000 cannot fire, retract and again fire the pins quickly enough to print overlapping dots. You sacrifice some print speed and ribbon life with emphasized, because the print head slows and prints twice as many dots, but the increase in print quality is well worth it. You may want to use empha- sized instead of NLQ mode for some purposes because emphasized printing is faster than NLQ printing.
Now that you have seen our example of emphasized printing, here's a master program that allows you to test almost any of the ESCape codes, including the ESCape code to turn on emphasized: ESCape "E". Master program First type in the program below. The program asks you what codes you want to test and then prints a sample of what the codes do. Be sure to type in the blank spaces in lines 70 and 80. If you are using Commodore BASIC:
100PEN4,4 20 PRINT "WHICH ESCAPE CODE DO YOU" 30 INPUT "WANT TO TEST" ;A$ 40 PRINT "WHAT KIND OF PRINTING" 50 INPUT "DOES IT PRODUCE" ;B$ 60 PRINT#4, CHR$(27)A$ 70 PRINT#4, "THIS SAMPLE USES ESCAPE ";A$ 80 PRINT#4, "TO PRODUCE ";B$;" PRINTING." 90 PRINT#4, CHR$(27)"@" 100 CLOSE4 If you are using Microsoft BASIC: 20 PRINT "Which ESCape code do you" 30 INPUT "want to test" ;A$ 40 PRINT "What kind of printing" 50 INPUT "does it produce" ;B$ 60 LPRINT CHR$(27)A$ 70 LPRINT ''This sample uses ESCape '';A$ 80 LPRINT" to produce" ;B$;" printing." 90 LPRINT CHR$(27)"@" Now run the program. When the first question appears on the screen, type a capital E and press the RETURN key.
Type "emphasized' and press the RETURN key in answer to the second question. The pro- 64