Tally Genicom Matrix Printer - Manual (Page 125)

Italic Mode ON
ESC 4
Italic Mode OFF ESC 5
Data Structure ASCII ESC "4" italic mode ON
➊
hex. 1B 34
dec. 27 52
ASCII ESC "5" italic mode OFF
➋
hex. 1B 35
dec. 27 53
Description
➊
All characters following this code sequence are printed in italics. Italic characters are
also printed, if codes with the eight bit set by ESC > are sent to the printer.
The characters hex.B0 to hex.DF (hex.176...dec.223) and hex.F0 to hex.FE
(dec.240...dec.254) of the extended EPSON graphics character set cannot be printed
in italic mode.
➋
Italic print mode set by ESC 4 or ESC ! (Master Select) is reset. Italic mode can be
used in all print qualities (DPQ, NLQ, LQ).
Example 10 REM italic mode
20 LPRINT CHR$(27);"4";
30 GOSUB 70
40 LPRINT CHR$(27);"5";
50 GOSUB 70
60 END
70 LPRINT "Matrix Printer"
80 RETURN
42 Character Styling