If
your
program
asks
other
questions,
or
doesn't
have
any
printer
choices that resemble
those
above, eliminate the choices involving
letter quality
or
daisy-wheel
printers
(with
names like Diablo and
Spinwriter)
and
experiment.
The
worst
that
will happen
is
that
you'll
get
very
strange
results
or
no
results at all
and
you
can
make
a different
printer
choice.
Once
you've
completed
the installation,
you're
ready
to
use
your
new
MPS
1200 printer.
Try
a
short
printing
sample using
your
program.
You
will see
what
a
good
choice
you
made in purchasing
the
MPS
1200 printer.
WORD
PROCESSORS
Strange
as
it
may
seen, the special
printing
effects built
into
many
word
processing
programs
are limited
to
boldface and underlining.
Fortunately,
most
programs
provide a
way
to
send special codes to
the
MPS
1200 to take advantage
of
its additional capabilities such
as
italics, compressed
and
double
width
print, superscripts
and
sub-
script, graphics characters, and so on.
But
it
takes a little
maneuver-
mg.
The
trick
is
to
get
your
word
processing
program
to place the
necessary
non
printing
codes
into
your
text
file
and
send
them
on
to
the
printer
without
interpreting
them
as its
own
commands.
Literal
Characters
A
"literal"
character tells the
word
processing
program
that the
character following
it
is to be accepted literally (placed in the text
file
as
is) and
not
interpreted
as
a
word
processing
command.
The
literal character in
many
word
processing
programs
is
itself a
particular
nonprinting
control character. Different
programs
use
different keys.
Check
your
word
processor's user manual to see
how
to
insert
nonprinting
codes
into
your
file.
For
example, to select emphasized print,
you
must
send the code
ESCape
E to the
MPS
1200.
To
enter
ESC
E
into
your
text file, key
your
word
processor's literal character,
ESC,
and then E.
It
doesn't
matter
how
this sequence
shows
on
your
screen;
when
you
print
the file, the
MPS
1200 will get the message
that
you
want
empha-
sized print.
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