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Testing Your Software for the Reset Code

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3) As you can see in Table 2-1, the code for compressed is four. Therefore, press the ON LINE button four times. (Remember that you hear a beep each time you press the ON LINE button when you are in SelecType mode). 4) Now that you have selected compressed, push the FF button once to set that mode. 5) Push the LF button once to return the panel buttons to their standard functions. Now you have set the LX-80 to print in compressed mode. Merely push the ON LINE button to put your printer back on-line and list your program once more. It should print in compressed mode just as in our example below: Turn your printer off to cancel the compressed setting, and if you wish, try this exercise with other modes. Testing Your Software for the Reset Code A few commercial software programs clear all previous modes by resetting the LX-SO before printing each document. Of course, this resetting wipes out whatever you have done with SelecType. But don't worry if your software resets the printer; you can still use SelecType. In Appendix F we tell you ways around the problem. Since only a few programs reset the LX-80 before printing, you probably won't have this problem. The following test tells you for sure. First, use your word processing or business program in the normal way to create a short file or document of the type you usually print. After you have created a file or document, print it in the usual way. Save this first copy for comparison with the next versions you print. Your test can be as simple as our example below, a two-line document created with a word processor and printed with its standard print command. Now set your LX-80 for elite printing using the following steps. 19

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3) As you can see in Table 2-1, the code for compressed is four.
Therefore, press the ON LINE button four times. (Remember
that you hear a beep each time you press the ON LINE button
when you are in SelecType mode).
4) Now that you have selected compressed, push the FF button once
to set that mode.
5) Push the LF button once to return the panel buttons to their
standard functions.
Now you have set the LX-80 to print in compressed mode. Merely
push the ON LINE button to put your printer back on-line and list
your program once more. It should print in compressed mode just as
in our example below:
Turn your printer off to cancel the compressed setting, and if you
wish, try this exercise with other modes.
Testing Your Software for the Reset Code
A few commercial software programs clear all previous modes by
resetting the LX-SO before printing each document. Of course, this
resetting wipes out whatever you have done with SelecType. But
don’t worry if your software resets the printer; you can still use
SelecType. In Appendix F we tell you ways around the problem.
Since only a few programs reset the LX-80 before printing, you
probably won’t have this problem. The following test tells you for
sure. First, use your word processing or business program in the
normal way to create a short file or document of the type you usually
print.
After you have created a file or document, print it in the usual way.
Save this first copy for comparison with the next versions you print.
Your test can be as simple as our example below, a two-line docu-
ment created with a word processor and printed with its standard
print command.
Now set your LX-80 for elite printing using the following steps.
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