Printer Specbox

  To enter, press the Printer button

Item: Dump
Type: Action Bar
Desc: This option dumps the current
work screen to the Printer (if
connected of course). An Alert Box will
check if you really want to dump first.
The output if effected by the
attributes on the Printer Specbox.
Opts: All Printer Options (PRS)

Item: HBLs
Type: Toggle Bar
Desc: If HBLs is switched on when you
Dump a screen to the Printer, the HBLs
will be taken into account. Otherwise,
the whole dump will be affected only by
the current palette.
Opts: Printer Options (PRS)

Item: Passes
Type: Icon Selector
Desc: This selects the number of passes
(times that the printer will print each
of the lines of graphics). The greater
the number of passes, the better
quality the dump... and the longer the
dump takes. You may find that if you
have an old, fading ribbon, increasing
the number of passes may make it quite
respectable.
Opts: Printer Options (PRS)

Item: Printer Opts
Type: Toggle Bars
Desc: This option block consists of a
number of items which govern the output
produced when you Dump a picture to the
Printer. Firstly, Mono/LC-10 Colr
selects whether the dump produced is to
be a Mono dump (Black/White) or full
colour. The Colour dump (probably?)
only works on a Star LC-10 Colour
Printer though (who said it's
impossible to make a 4 colour printer
print 4096 colours!!).
    The second option allows you to
select which port your printer is
connected to. Check this before you
print out. Centronics is the normal
Printer port (second from right at the
back of the ST) and the RS-232 is the
Modem port (right-hand port).
    Thirdly, choose the contrast of the
shading produced by the Dump. Smooth
means that there will be 8 different
shading levels for each colour, whereas
Sharp produces 4 shades.
    Lastly, the numbers represent the
number of dots per line your printer is
capable of. Most Epson-compatible
printers, including Star, Panasonic,
Citizen etc, use 960 D/Line whilst
Atari printers use 1280 D/Line.
Opts: Printer Options (PRS)

Item: Send CHR$
Type: Infobar/Action Bar
Desc: This option allows you to send
single character codes to your printer.
You could use it to set up a function
or simply to print some text (although
it's not really meant for that). To do
this, you must change the value in the
Infobar to the appropriate CHR$ value
(See Character Set table). Now click on
the title bar of the Infobar. You
should hear a ping. If you don't, the
printer probably isn't connected
properly, or is not On-Line.
Opts: Printer Options (PRS)