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Esc sp – Tally Genicom Matrix Printer User Manual

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Character Spacing

ESC SP

Data Structure

ASCII

ESC SP

hex.

1B

20

dec.

27

32

Description

The size of the spaces between the characters is increased by n

1

180

inch in NLQ and

LQ and in Draft by n

1

120

inch. This space is added to the spaces used for character de-

finition.

The value specified for n must be in the range of 0 to 127.

Example

10 REM character spacing
20 LPRINT CHR$(27);"@"
25 LPRINT CHR$(27);"x1";:REM High Print quality
30 LPRINT "this is normal width"
40 LPRINT CHR$(27);" ";CHR$(3);
50 LPRINT "now 3/180 inch is added to normal width"
60 LPRINT CHR$(27);" ";CHR$(6);
70 LPRINT "now 6/180 inch is added"
80 END

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Character

Spacing