Output ControlThe printers have the following output control features:v Six modes for printing text:– Near-Letter Quality (NLQ)– Near-Letter Quality San Serif– Data Processing (DP)– Draft– Optical Character Recognition Font A (OCR A)– Optical Character Recognition Font B (OCR B)OCR A and OCR B support 120 and 180 PEL, with 120 PEL the default value.v Selectable forms length and widthv Character attribute specification:– Selectable pitch: normal, expanded, and compressed– Emphasized (shadow) printing– Automatic underlining and overscoring– Superscript and subscript printing– Double high and wide printingv Resident multinational character setsGraphics and Vertical FormattingSeveral graphics and vertical formatting features are available:v Three built-in graphics generators:– IBM Proprinter III XL bit-image graphics– Epson FX dot graphics mode– P-Series Plotv Programmable electronic vertical formatting provides rapid vertical papermovement to specified lines for printing repetitive and continuous forms. Youcan use the following methods:– Vertical tabbing in Serial Matrix, Proprinter III XL, and Epson FX emulationmodes– Electronic Vertical Format Unit (EVFU) in P-Series emulation modeChapter 1. Printer Overview 5
