Oki MICROLINE 591Elite User Manual

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3 – 5Use these commands to produce characters twice as wide as regular characters. Forexample, if the current character pitch is 12 CPI, double width characters will print at6 CPI. The Character Width table shows all the possible combinations. The one-linedouble width commands are especially convenient for titles and headlines, since theyturn off double width printing automatically at the end of the line. If you want to cancelone-line double width printing before the line ends, send a DC4 or ESC W 0 command.(But note that when you use ESC W 1 to turn on continuous double width printing, theonly way to stop it is with ESC W 0; DC4 has no effect.)You can also choose continuous double width printing in Menu Select mode.EpsonThe one-line double width command ESC SO is identical in function to the SOcommand.Double Width Decimal Hex ASCII CompDouble width printing 27 87 n 1B 57 n ESC W n E P Aor 28 69 n 1C 45 n FS E n En = 1: Begin double width printing; n = 0 End double width printingBegin one-line double width 14 0E SO E P AprintingBegin one-line double width 27 14 1B 0E ESC SO EprintingEnd one-line double width 20 14 DC4 E P AprintingCompressed Printing Decimal Hex ASCII CompBegin compressed printing 15 0F SI E P AEpson: depends on current pitch; IBM: prints in 17.1 CPIBegin compressed printing 27 15 1B 0F ESC SI E P AEpson: depends on current pitch; IBM: prints in 20 CPIEnd compressed printing 18 12 DC2 E