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When you use the skip-over-perforation command, you may want

to change your top of form. No matter what number you use as a

skip-over-perforation setting, the printer skips that many blank lines

from the last text line to the new top of form. In other words, when

you set your top of form the usual way, you will have all of your blank

space at the bottom of each page.

To get equal amounts of blank space on the top and bottom of each

page, you can set the top-of-form position below the perforation. For

the standard six-line (1-inch) gap, setting the top of form to half an

inch below the perforation will provide equal amounts of blank space

at the bottom of the old page and the top of the new page. You can

turn the skip-over-perforation feature off with ESCape “O” (that’s the

letter oh). You also cancel it by resetting the printer or by setting a new

length with ESCape “C”.

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You may find that you want the skip-over-perforation feature to

become a default feature on your printer. Nothing could be easier.

Turn the printer off (so that your new setting will take effect when

you turn the FX on again). Now remove the vent covering the DIP

switches as described in Chapter 1 and change DIP switch 2-3 to the

on position.

Set a new top of form as described above. Now replace the vent and

turn the printer on. Then delete line 10 and put in this new line 30:

30 LPRINT "AUTO SKIP COMING UP . . . LINE";X

Except for the positioning of the blank lines and the wording of the

text, this printout should match Figure 8-4.

An automatic six-line skip-over-perforation will now be active

every time you turn the printer on. And you can still turn it off with

the CHR$(27)“O” or change the setting with CHR$(27)“N”CHR$(n).

If you don’t want to keep the skip-over-perforation feature active,

reset switch 2-3 and your top of form before proceeding.

For instructions on loading single sheets of paper into the friction

feeder, refer back to Chapter 

1.

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