Special effects and emphasis, This is normal nlq printing, Nlq printing – First Alert ACTION T-1000 User Manual

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Special Effects and Emphasis

The printer offers two ways of emphasizing parts of your text and also

allows you to use underlining, superscripts, and subscripts. Most of these

features can be controlled only by software commands, but many

application programs can produce them if they are properly installed.

Emphasized and double-strike modes, both of which can be chosen with

SelecType, slow the printer down slightly to produce bolder text. In

emphasized mode, the printer prints each character twice as the print

head moves across the paper, with the second pass slightly to the right of

the first. This produces darker, more fully-formed characters.

In double-strike mode, the printer prints each line twice, with the second

pass slightly below the first. This makes the characters bolder. While

NLQ is in use, however, double-strike is ignored because NLQ characters

are already formed by two passes of the print head.

This is normal NLQ printing.

This is emphasized

NLQ printing.

Superscripts and subscripts are valuable for such purposes as printing

footnote numbers or parts of mathematical formulas, and the underline

mode provides an automatic way of underlining fully any piece of text.

It underlines spaces, subscripts, and superscripts without a break.
The example below shows underlining combined with subscripts in a

mathematical formula.

average = (a

1

+ a

2

+ . . . . . + a

n

)

n

Printer Features 3-5

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