Olivetti JP101 manual

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    Using the Olivetti JP101 printer Applicable Hardware : Electron BBC B BBC B+ Master 128 Master Compact Support Group Acorn Computers Limited Acorn House Vision Park Histon Cambridge CB4 4AE Related Application Notes: Copyright © Acorn Computer Every effort has been made to ensure that the information in this leaflet is true and correct at the time[...]

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    Using the Acorn JP101 Spark Jet Printer Apart from being a remarkably quiet and fast home computer printer, the JP101 Spark Jet Printer has many special features which are simple to use and can improve the presentation of your printouts. Among these features are nine different national character sets, double width printing, double height printing, [...]

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    4) Double Height Characters Off VDU1, 27, 1, 37 This command turns off double height printing. 5) Underlining VDU1, 27, 1, 42, 1, 48 (normal underlining) VDU1, 27, 1, 42, 1, 49 (double underlining) VDU1, 27, 1, 42, 1, 50 (dotted underlining) These commands turn on the appropriate style of underlining, which remains in operation until cancelled. 6) [...]

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    11) Alternative National Character Sets VDU1, 27, 1, 91, 1, 48, 1, 51, 1, 48 (German) VDU1, 27, 1, 91, 1, 48, 1, 52, 1, 48 (Spanish) VDU1, 27, 1, 91, 1, 48, 1, 53, 1, 48 (Danish) VDU1, 27, 1, 91, 1, 48, 1, 54, 1, 48 (French) VDU1, 27, 1, 91, 1, 48, 1, 55, 1, 48 (Italian) VDU1, 27, 1, 91, 1, 48, 1, 56, 1, 48 (Swedish/Finnish) VDU1, 27, 1, 91, 1, 48,[...]

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    14) Programmed Vertical Tabulation VDU1, 27, 1, 81 (format information) VDU1, 27, 1, 90 This is the vertical version of 12) above. See 12) for more information. The following program demonstrates printing as programmed vertical tab stops. 10 @%=0 20 VDU2 30 VDU1, 27, 1, 81' 40 PRINT"60;10;15;40;47"; 50 VDU1, 27, 1, 90 60 Z=0 70 REPEA[...]

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    19) Carriage Return VDU1, 13 Performs a single line feed 20) Audible Alarm VDU1, 7 Activates audible alarm lasting about 300msec. 21) Clear Printer Buffer VDU1, 127 Clears print buffer and resets print head. Does not affect tab programs etc. 22) Plotter Programming Although it is possible to program graphics dump routines in BASIC the result would [...]