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Now print your sample document or run your sample program. If

your printing appears in

emphasized Near Letter Quality

as you see here, you have successfully combined the two modes. If

you get any other results, turn your printer off and back on and then

try the steps again.

You can combine other modes using the same technique, but some

modes will not mix with others. Table

2-2

shows which modes can be

combined. A dot in a box indicates that the two modes can be com-

bined.

Table 2-2. Mode combinations

Mode

NLQ Emphasized

Double-

Strike

Compressed

Elite

NLQ

Emphasized

Double-Strike

Compressed

Elite

Don’t worry about harming your printer if you try to combine two

modes that the LX-90 can’t mix. Your settings cannot damage the

printer because it is prepared for the possibility of receiving codes for

conflicting modes. If it receives codes for two modes that it can’t com-

bine, it uses only one of the codes.

SelecType Tips

After you turn on a mode with SelecType, it usually stays in effect

until the printer is turned off. If, for example, you use SelecType to

print a document in emphasized, anything you print after that will be

emphasized unless you first turn the printer off and back on.

If you like NLQ or compressed well enough to use it most of the

time, you can turn it on and keep it on with a DIP switch in the back of

your printer. See Appendix D for instructions.

‘For more information on the typestyles in this chapter, see Chapters

3, 4, and 5.