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The maximum right margins are shown in Table
5-5.
Table 5-5. Maximum right margin settings
Skip-over-perforation
If you are using continuous-feed paper for printing program listings
or other material not controlled by an applications program, you may
find that the LQ prints right over the perforations between pages. The
LQ has an ESCape code to prevent this: the ESCape “N” command.
You send ESCape “N" followed by the number of lines you want the
LQ to skip at the bottom of a page. For example, in BASIC the follow-
ing line will make the LQ skip six lines after each 60 lines if your
printer is set for 11-inch paper:
10 LPRINT CHR$(27)"N"CHR$(6);
Since an 11-inch page is
66
lines, this will give you one inch of blank
space at the bottom of each page. If you prefer to have half of the
blank space at the top of the page and half at the bottom, simply set
the top-of-page approximately three lines (½ of an inch) below the
perforation. (See Chapter 3 if you need to refresh your memory on
setting the top-of-page.)
Line spacing
Ordinarily you don’t have to worry about how the printer moves
the paper so that it doesn’t print lines of text on top of each other; the
LQ takes care of this without any special instructions. The line spacing
on the LQ, however, can be changed with an ESCape code.
The movement of the paper between lines is called a
fine feed
and
the distance the paper moves is called a
line space.
In ordinary print-
ing the line spacing is
1/6
of an inch, which produces six lines of print
per inch.
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